Wizardest

Paul Canetti

Paul Canetti, a designer with a degree in philosophy, sits down with people from large tech companies, startup founders, VCs, and other interesting personalities to learn about their past experiences and views on the future – with a concentration on the intersection of technology, media, and human nature. Paul is founder and CEO of MAZ, whose products are used by companies like Forbes, Hearst, and Bloomberg to develop their mobile and TV apps. Paul previously worked at Apple and is currently an Adjunct Associate Professor at Columbia Business School. He was named one of Inc. Magazine's "30 Under 30 World's Coolest Entrepreneurs", and MAZ was named one of Entrepreneur Magazine's "Best Entrepreneurial Companies in America".

  • 1 hour 16 minutes
    E19 // “Ghosts of Media Tech Past, Present, & Future” Sarah Chubb, Principal, Sarah Chubb Consulting

    Sarah Chubb is a media and ecommerce executive with over 25 years of experience building strong and profitable businesses online. She was the President of Condé Nast Digital and of Gilt City and has served as a senior advisor for IAC Publishing and The Daily Beast. Sarah reminisces on the early days of web publishing and monetizing content online, presents her recommended go-to-market strategy for any new media brand in the era of the Facebook/Google advertising duopoly, and shares lessons about leadership and management

    20 February 2018, 4:11 pm
  • 1 hour 11 minutes
    E18 // “Mental Athletes” Avani Agarwal, UX Designer at Google + Co-Founder at Stature
    Avani Agarwal is a UX Designer at Google where she works on products that center around social good, and she is also the co-Founder of Stature, a lifestyle brand for petite women. Prior to joining Google in 2011, she previously worked as an Art Director at Yahoo. Avani discusses her approach to design, creating a unified UX across Google, designing for consumers vs. brands, her experience as a startup founder, how AI and data can help inform design decisions, and assorted other topics.
    12 January 2018, 4:32 pm
  • 1 hour 29 minutes
    E17 // “The Evolution of Presentation” Georg Petschnigg, Co-Founder and CEO at FiftyThree
    Founded by former Microsoft engineers and designers, FiftyThree is the creator of the award-winning app Paper and their latest release, Paste, is taking on the holy grail of productivity tools: presentations. As an early proponent of iPad as a device for creating, Georg talks about the journey he’s taken at FiftyThree, design vs. engineering, auto-layouts, the economics of the App Store, and drawing inspiration from dance.
    5 December 2017, 10:45 pm
  • 1 hour 13 minutes
    E16 // “Can Subscriptions Save Democracy?” Ben Frumin, Editor-in-Chief at TheWeek.com
    How can we break out of our media echo chambers? The Week aims to provide a balanced, spin-free collection of news and opinion pieces from all across the political spectrum — a service needed today more than ever. Ben Frumin talks politics, echo chambers, business models for news, and why it’s important to see things from the other side.
    22 November 2017, 7:08 pm
  • 1 hour 35 minutes
    E15 // “Getting Kidnapped by Bob Dylan” Marissa DeVito, Branded Content at SoundCloud
    Marissa DeVito, daughter of legendary producer and record executive Don DeVito (Bob Dylan, Billy Joel, Aerosmith), talks about the current state and future of the music industry, her days creating early digital and social marketing strategies at Universal Music Group for artists like Justin Bieber, working at Sony Music Studios with Green Day and Beyoncé, pioneering digital remixing with her former startup Umixit, and ridiculous stories of getting lost with Bob Dylan as a child, and well as her current role working with brands at SoundCloud.
    7 November 2017, 8:41 pm
  • 1 hour 6 minutes
    E14 // “170 Years of News” Ted Mendelsohn, VP, Digital and Commercial Markets, Associated Press
    The AP has been reporting and distributing news for over 170 years, first delivered by boat and today by fiber optics. An industry veteran for over 40 of those years, we discuss how the business of news has changed over time, the AP’s unique wholesale and non-profit models, the resiliency of text-based media, paradigm shifts both past and future, and a variety of other topics.
    17 October 2017, 8:35 pm
  • 1 hour 22 minutes
    E13 // “Putting the News in News Feed” Tara Vohra, News Partnerships at Facebook
    The News Partnerships team helps journalists and media companies better leverage Facebook at a time when Facebook is playing an ever important role in the distribution of news — both real and fake. We talk all about fake news, workings of The Algorithm, business models for news, the age of individuals as publishers, and other assorted topics.
    3 October 2017, 4:00 am
  • 36 minutes 51 seconds
    E12 // “Replace Your Face” iPhone X as the World’s First Augmented Reality Device
    In my first ever solo episode, I explore my initial thoughts around iPhone X and its role as the first mass market AR device. I also discuss how AR will change the world in the future.(spoiler: glasses you wear all the time, loss of touch with physical reality, everyone having pet dinosaurs)
    26 September 2017, 3:58 am
  • 1 hour 16 minutes
    E11 // “Inside Angel Investing” Angela Lee, Founder at 37 Angels
    Angela Lee is Founder at 37 Angels, Chief Innovation Officer at Columbia Business School, and a lifelong educator and entrepreneur who was named one of Entrepreneur’s “6 Innovative Women to Watch”. We discuss what it takes to become an angel investor, the process of choosing which startups to invest in (hint: saying no a lot), and the power of education.
    19 September 2017, 9:35 pm
  • 2 hours 4 minutes
    E10 // “The Business of Broadway” Steven Tartick, Executive Creative Director at RPM
    To celebrate the 10th episode, one of my best friends, Steven Tartick, talks about the future (and present) of Broadway, how AI will impact the creative process, VR theater, our time together at Apple, productivity hacks, and more.
    5 September 2017, 9:34 pm
  • 1 hour 51 minutes
    E9 // "Society as a UX Problem" Andre Plaut, Associate Director, Learning & Development at Huge
    As a fellow Apple and General Assembly alum, and now doing L&D at Huge, Andre Plaut has a passion for the intersection of technology, education, and storytelling. After working with the Obama campaign and as someone more keyed into politics than most, he views everything as a design problem, even society itself. We dive into topics including first amendment rights, racism, the problems with modern media and what we can learn from history, as well as trading tales from the first ever iPhone launch.
    23 August 2017, 9:57 pm
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