Mike McCue

@mmccue.bsky.social

Co-founder, CEO Flipboard
Host of DotSocial Podcast

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"Algorithms and tech need to be balanced with judgement and principles." Flipboard CEO @mmccue.bsky.social

Heading into the midterms, we want to remind you: our values haven't changed.

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about.flipboard.comFlipboard’s Commitment: Truth, Quality Journalism, and Healthy CommunitiesOur team works hard every day to preserve quality journalism and create a safe environment for the people who choose to spend time here.
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Rewatched this tonight. Highly
recommended. This Decoder episode stands as one of the most prescient takes form @reckless.bsky.social on the future of the web and AI

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@reckless.bsky.social has described this as the "door dash problem." I still feel the monopoly of Google/Amazon/Apple will be big enough to bully any other business into relenting into their systems. www.theverge.com/podcast/8239...

theverge.comThe DoorDash problem and the great AI browser fightAmazon sued Perplexity this month over its Comet browser, which uses AI agents to do online shopping on your behalf. This is the first major front in the war over who gets to browse the web.
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@reckless.bsky.social has described this as the "door dash problem." I still feel the monopoly of Google/Amazon/Apple will be big enough to bully any other business into relenting into their systems. www.theverge.com/podcast/8239...

Jacob Kramer-Duffield@jaykaydee.bsky.social

Very good rundown of the wide gulf between promise and reality for agents. For Muse to really work like Facebook wants, every other company with a digital presence would have to unilaterally surrender and turn over their experience to Zuck; same with any other agent. Idk seems unlikely!

theverge.comThe DoorDash problem and the great AI browser fightAmazon sued Perplexity this month over its Comet browser, which uses AI agents to do online shopping on your behalf. This is the first major front in the war over who gets to browse the web.
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This episode alone makes my recent Verge sub renewal so worth it. @reckless.bsky.social gets to the heart of the issues, which is probably why Mark Zuckerberg declined to come on Decoder. www.theverge.com/podcast/9993...

theverge.comWhat Mark Zuckerberg needs to answer about Meta Glasses, Muse, and teen safetyIt’s a big week for Meta, and for Mark Zuckerberg. Here’s what we think the CEO of Meta needs to answer about the company’s product strategy.
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The best way to fight back against the Paramount/Warner Brothers merger is to support independent artists, journalists, writers, filmmakers, musicians and everyone else who has been walking a very hard path to putting things out into the world.

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The latest @Surf.social beta let's you add super powerful include and exclude filters for your feeds and sources.

Want to see just climate change posts from the Congress Bluesky list? World news beyond Trump? Tech news other than AI? Hashtags without spammers? You're in charge.

Surf@surf.social

No mystery algorithm deciding what makes the cut. Surf now gives you more control over your custom feeds with new filters for keywords, hashtags, domains, profiles and more.

static.klipy.comPenguin Taking Control with CTRL KeyALT: Penguin Taking Control with CTRL Key
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Miss a day? Now your feed catches you up. Feed Pulse reads the posts your readers actually looked at, and writes a short daily front page for you - all through @cocore.dev's artisanal, farm-to-table AI inference ATProto co-op! Available *today* for all feeds.

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Thanks for letting me know. Are you talking about startup load time? also would love any examples of something that isn't loading. Lots of good improvements coming...

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@bradporterbsky.bsky.social, founder and CEO of Cobot, recently interviewed me about starting companies, crafting products, building teams and the moment we're all in now. Check it out.

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youtube.comBuilding Through Every Wave: Mike Mcue on the Internet, Mobile, & AI ErasMike McCue has spent 40 years building the tools that made the web more human, Paper Software, Netscape, Tellme Networks, and Flipboard. In this episode of Deployed, he sits down with Brad Porter, the founding engineer he once recruited at Tellme, to talk about what it actually takes to ship hard technology across the internet, mobile, and AI eras. They get into the first-principles call that saved Tellme (walking away from a company-defining AT&T check), how to build teams that compound, why he shipped voice AI two decades before the world was ready, and two unforgettable Steve Jobs stories: including the day Jobs picked up an iPad and explained Flipboard's purpose better than Mike could himself. 00:34 Welcome and introducing Mike McCue 01:14 Internet, mobile, and AI: are they really different? 03:58 The art of timing as an entrepreneur 04:50 Building his first robot in 7th grade 06:49 Writing video games and founding his first company 08:55 The vision: bringing the internet to phones via voice 09:47 Building cloud computing and speech recognition before their time 12:41 Tellme's culture check for hiring 14:26 Billion-dollar seed rounds then and now 15:41 Netscape's growth and the economics of tech 17:40 The dot-com crash during fundraising 20:08 Democratizing access to information 22:40 Flipboard's vision: reimagining the web with people in it 27:26 Lessons from mentors Bill Campbell and John Giannandrea 30:25 Making 50/50 decisions as a solo founder 33:46 Meeting Steve Jobs and debating the stylus 36:02 Demoing Flipboard to Steve Jobs 41:16 His wife Marcy's MS diagnosis and remarkable recovery 46:37 Closing thoughts
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It was awesome having @j4ck.xyz intern here. Many of the cool features and ideas he championed will ship soon in Surf.

Jack is a unique talent and I'm excited for whatever he does in the future. We're all lucky to have him building on the open social web!

jack@j4ck.xyz

not to linkedin-maxx but i just finished my 2-week internship at @surf.social and it’s been the most enjoyable experience ever :) can’t believe how quick it went, excited for the future 👀

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