Podcast appearances and mentions of Andrew Weinreich

TESTO DELL'ARTICOLO ➜ https://www.bastabugie.it/it/articoli.php?id=7652COME SALVARE I FIGLI DALLO SMARTPHONE di Cristina SiccardiSmartphone e social media, come ben sappiamo, hanno radicalmente cambiato la vita di tutte le persone, di qualsiasi età e di qualsiasi ceto sociale. Tutti gli strumenti, più o meno complessi, hanno mutato nel corso della storia la vita quotidiana delle persone e il loro impatto è stato positivo o negativo a seconda del loro utilizzo, ovvero dal criterio con cui ciascun individuo se ne serve. Ma quelli di cui stiamo parlando hanno un impatto massificante di straordinario potere persuasivo, plagiatorio, psicologico.La commercializzazione degli smartphone è iniziata nel 1993 con IBM e, in breve tempo, essi hanno riempito i mercati mondiali con migliaia di modelli e centinaia di milioni di utenti. Il primo social network della storia corrisponde al sito americano SixDegrees, lanciato a New York nel 1997 dal suo fondatore Andrew Weinreich. I social media hanno rappresentato un cambiamento nel modo in cui le persone leggono, apprendono e condividono, senza sosta, informazioni e contenuti. Con i social media è mutato completamente il modello di comunicazione tipico dei media tradizionali (radio, stampa, televisione): il messaggio non è più "da uno a molti" (monodirezionale, dal broadcaster al suo pubblico), ma "da molti a uno", con elevato livello di interazione. L'informazione si è "democratizzata" in un liberalismo esasperato, trasformando i soggetti da meri fruitori a editori di se stessi, interconnettendosi con altri soggetti monitorati in tutto il mondo attraverso colossi mediatici come Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram, TikTok.Oggi esiste una vera e propria bulimia nell'uso degli smartphone e dei socialmedia. Attività e virtù come autodisciplina e temperanza, moderazione e sobrietà, equilibrio, stabilità, prudenza e armonia, concentrazione e silenzio sono andate smarrite nella civiltà edonistica, del "mordi e fuggi", dell'insaziabilità su più fronti, della frenesia, dell'ansia, del frastuono acustico e visivo, dove la massa di informazioni si schianta con la vuotezza di principi e valori giusti e sani.Fatto incontestabile è che chat e videogiochi (solitari o in comunità web) creano enorme dipendenza: soggiogano, ingabbiano mente e spirito, sviluppando problemi e condizionamenti a dismisura. Essere interconnessi continuamente, da quando ci si sveglia a quando si va a dormire, significa avere l'attenzione degli innumerevoli "amici" sui propri pensieri, sentimenti, intenzioni.UN BILANCIO ALLA LUCE DELLA FEDE CATTOLICADopo più di vent'anni di uso incessante di questi dispositivi e di questo genere di comunicazione, quale bilancio si può dare? Il tema non può certo essere esaurito in questo contesto. Tuttavia, possiamo considerarne le conseguenze e, allo stesso tempo, alla luce della fede cattolica e quindi delle sane virtù, possiamo risparmiare figli e nipoti da squilibri, fobie e schizofrenie che provengono dall'uso paranoico e smodato di tali strumenti.Tanto è forte il collegamento fra lo smartphone e i comportamenti adolescenziali che la professoressa Jean M. Twenge, docente di psicologia della San Diego State University, ha definito questa generazione «iGen», generazione «iphone». Da venticinque anni Twenge studia i trend generazionali. Ha lavorato sul senso di ribellione dei Baby boomer (i nati dal 1945 al 1965), sul desiderio di indipendenza della generazione X (i nati tra il 1965 e il 1980), sull'individualismo dei Millennials (nati fra il 1980 e il 2000) e confrontando i dati comportamentali di queste ultime generazioni, con famiglie spesso dissestate, ha rilevato che gli adolescenti di oggi sono più depressi, passano il tempo con i coetanei soprattutto sui telefonini, sono soli, vulnerabili, con precaria salute mentale e a maggior rischio di suicidio. Essi sono molto fragili, benché spavaldi. I tassi della depressione e di suicidio sono aumentati dal 2011 ad oggi. Gran parte della crisi del deterioramento della salute mentale può essere ricondotto all'uso smodato dei telefonini. L'ascesa dello smartphone e dei social media hanno causato un terremoto di proporzioni mai viste. I dispositivi che si sono messi nelle mani dei giovanissimi stanno avendo profondi effetti sulla loro vita, rendendoli seriamente infelici. Ormai ci sono genitori che consegnano, senza alcuno scrupolo, gli smartphone a bimbi di 2/3 anni e tale deplorevole scelta avrà ripercussioni spaventose.In media, la maggior parte degli adolescenti trascorre dalle 3 alle 6 ore al giorno con lo smartphone, utilizzato anche a scuola durante le lezioni. Tutto questo tempo passato sugli schermi interconnessi creano dipendenza, isolamento, insorgenza di malattie cardiovascolari, disfunzioni metaboliche e diabete, come ha evidenziato in rete l'Ospedale pediatrico Bambino Gesù di Roma. Inoltre, una scarsa qualità del sonno favorisce stanchezza, depressione, abuso di alcol, disturbi ossessivo-compulsivi, abuso di sostanze, atti di autolesionismo, risultati scolastici scadenti... considerando anche il fatto che l'uso eccessivo dello smartphone può determinare un approccio superficiale all'apprendimento e induce alla distrazione e ad un notevole abbassamento della concentrazione.L'OZIOSITÀ INSEGNA OGNI SORTA DI VIZIOgni anno, quasi 46.000 bambini e adolescenti tra i 10 e i 19 anni si tolgono la vita in tutto il mondo, circa uno ogni undici minuti. Il suicidio è la quinta causa di morte più comune fra i giovanissimi e la quarta nella fascia d'età dai 15 ai 19 anni (la terza se si considerano solo le ragazze).Sono tra 3.700 e 4.000 le persone che ogni anno si tolgono la vita in Italia (dati Istat relativi al periodo 2016-2020). Il dato riferito ai giovani fra i 15 e i 34 anni registrato nello stesso periodo è in media di circa 500 suicidi. Come è noto le varie forme di violenza psicologica e fisica fra i minori è cresciuta in modo esponenziale (baby gang) grazie anche all'imperversare sui dispostivi tecnologici delle infauste canzoni dei rapper, che mietono odio, ribellione, sesso, droga, alcol e violenza in genere.Poiché le autorità non pongono freno ("per il bene" delle lobby economiche di potere e della "democrazia") a questo tsunami, che miete vittime e si beffa di tutti, di piccoli e grandi, è bene recuperare le medicine dell'educazione cattolica, così stanno facendo le famiglie rimaste fedeli al Vangelo. Esse fanno riferimento all'eccellente tradizione pedagogica della Chiesa e vanno a leggersi, grazie ai suggerimenti di sacerdoti e intellettuali, ciò che lasciano scritto i santi maestri educatori. Poiché il tempo è preziosissimo (è breve e non torna più), è fondamentale impiegarlo al meglio, non certo nell'ozio (lo smartphone non è forse una grave forma di ozio?). Scriveva san Giovanni Bosco: «Dalle letture [oggi si potrebbe anche aggiungere: dalle chat] dipende moltissime volte la scelta definitiva (per i giovanetti) che fanno del bene o del male» per sé e gli altri, quindi: «Fuggite l'ozio e gli oziosi, lavorate secondo il vostro stato; quando siete disoccupati siete in gravissimo pericolo di cadere in peccato. L'oziosità̀ insegna ogni sorta di vizi» e «Abborrite le malvagie letture più che la peste». Per conservare la purezza, la Chiesa preconciliare, che lottava contro liberalismo, socialismo e spirito rivoluzionario, esortava a tenere lontano le cattive letture e la cattiva cinematografia, veleno per le anime. Affermava ancora don Bosco: «La felicità non si trova in questo mondo, se non si ha la pace con Dio; se [la gente] è così malcontenta ed arrabbiata, è perché́ non pensa alla salute dell'anima sua». [...]

NYC Developer, Lender and PropTech Investor, Eric Brody, sits down with Andrew Weinreich to break down how AI is changing property, PropTech, and ConTech. Andrew is an NYC-based serial entrepreneur who has founded 7 companies and invented the world's first social network. He's been building and advising startups for over 2 decades and now he's using his extensive experience to prepare the next generation of entrepreneurs for what's to come. Pay attention, people! Where to find Andrew: LI: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewweinreich/ YT: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcbxuYr-Z6HLgZmXIqZyUeA IG: https://www.instagram.com/aweinreich/ Where to find Real Tech Talk: IG: https://www.instagram.com/realtechtalk/ FB: https://www.facebook.com/realtechtalk TW: https://twitter.com/realtechtalkpod Where to find Eric Brody: IG: https://www.instagram.com/e_brody/ LI: linkedin.com/in/ericbrody1/ Interested in becoming a sponsor? Being a guest? Joining the investment fund? Contact: eric@rttpodcast.com About Real Tech Talk: Leading developer, investor and native New Yorker, Eric Brody, bridges the gap between technologists and PropTech by having no nonsense, frank conversations with the minds behind some of the hottest new PropTech innovations. As someone with skin in the game on both sides of the deal, Brody invites the folks behind technologies he genuinely finds interesting to come present their product. The question is - do these new players actually make an impact in the real world of construction? Someone needs to bring the big ideas down to the ground level and determine how they will actually change the experience, if at all. Having raised over $2 million and counting for a PropTech investment fund himself, Eric Brody is tapped into this burgeoning scene with a unique, necessary perspective.

Since the 1970s, people have been using digital tech to share information and connect with others. As times changed and more people gained access to computers and the internet, social networking technology changed too. Now, social networking has been replaced with social media and networks with large corporate platforms. Despite the ubiquity of these platforms, some of their earliest employees are creating new decentralized, open-sourced networks in an effort to bring the humanity back to social media. As the big platforms face new challenges, the future of social media is still being written. Featuring Kevin Driscoll, Andrew Weinreich, Evan Henshaw-Plath, David Kirkpatrick and Tristan Harris.  

Before Facebook, there was MySpace. People logged into a web page every day to write to friends, show off photos, and play music. Some of the things we still do on social networks. The world had been shifting to personal use of computers since the early days when time sharing systems were used in universities. Then came the Bulletin Board Systems of the 80s. But those were somewhat difficult to use and prone to be taken over by people like the ones who went on to found DefCon and hacking collectives.  Then in the 1990s computers and networks started to get easier to use. We got tools like AOL Instant Messenger and a Microsoft knockoff called Messenger. It's different ‘cause it doesn't say Instant. The rise of the World Wide Web meant that people could build their own websites in online communities. We got these online communities like Geocities in 1994, where users could build their own little web page. Some were notes from classes at universities; others how to be better at dressing goth. They tried to sort people by communities they called cities, and then each member got an address number in their community. They grew fast and even went public before being acquired by Yahoo! in 1999. Tripod showed up the year after Geocities came out and got acquired by Yahoo! competitor Lycos in 1998, signaling that portal services in a pre-modern search engine world would be getting into more content to show ads to eyeballs. Angelfire was another that started in 1996 and ended up in the Lycos portfolio as well. More people had more pages and that meant more eyeballs to show ads to. No knowledge of HTML was really required but it did help to know some. The GeoCities idea about communities was a good one. Turns out people liked hanging out with others like themselves online. People liked reading thoughts and ideas and seeing photos if they ever bothered to finish downloading. But forget to bookmark a page and it could be lost in the cyberbits or whatever happened to pages when we weren't looking at them.  The concept of six agrees of Kevin Bacon had been rolling around a bit, so Andrew Weinreich got the idea to do something similar to Angelfire and the next year created SixDegrees.com. It was easy to evolve the concept to bookmark pages by making connections on the site. Except to get people into the site and signing up the model appeared to be the flip side: enter real world friends and family and they were invited to join up. Accepted contacts could then post on each others bulletin boards or send messages to one another. We could also see who our connections were connected to, thus allowing us to say “oh I met that person at a party.” Within a few years the web of contacts model was so successful that it had a few million users and was sold for over $100 million. By 2000 it was shut down but had proven there was a model there that could work. Xanga came along the next year as a weblog and social networking site but never made it  to the level of success. Classmates.com is still out there as well, having been founded in 1995 to build a web of contacts for finding those friends from high school we lost contact with. Then came Friendster and MySpace in 2003. Friendster came out of the gate faster but faded away quicker. These took the concepts of SixDegrees.com where users invited friends and family but went a little further, allowing people to post on one another boards.  MySpace went a little further. They used some of the same concepts Geocities used and allowed people to customize their own web pages. When some people learned HTML to edit their pages, they got the bug to create. And so a new generation of web developers was created as people learned to layout pages and do basic web programming in order to embed files, flash content, change backgrounds, and insert little DHTML or even JavaScript snippets. MySpace was co-founded by Chris DeWolfe, Uber Whitcomb, Josh Berman, and Tom Anderson while working at an incubator or software holding company called eUniverse, which was later renamed to Intermix Media. Brad Greenspan founded that after going to UCLA and then jumping headfirst into the startup universe. He created Entertainment Universe, then raised $2M in capital from Lehman Brothers, another $5M from others and bought a young site called CD Universe, which was selling Compact Disks online. He reverse merged that into an empty public shell company, like a modern SPAC works, and was suddenly the CEO of a public company, expanding into online DVD sales. Remember, these were the days leading up to the dot com bubble. There was a lot of money floating around. They expanded into dating sites and other membership programs. We'd think of monthly member fees as Monthly Recurring Revenue now, but at the time there was so much free stuff on the internet that those most sites just gave it away and built revenue streams on advertising revenues. CDs and DVDs have data on them. Data can be shared. Napster proved how lucrative that could be by then. Maybe that was something eUniverse should get into. DeWolfe created a tool called Sitegeist, which was a site with a little dating, a little instant messaging, and a little hyper localized search. It was just a school project but got him thinking. Then, like millions of us were about to do, he met Tom. Tom was a kid from the valley who'd been tinkering with computers for years, as “Lord Flathead” who'd been busted hacking as a kid before going off to the University of California at Berkeley before coming home to LA to do software QA for an online storage company. The company he worked for got acquired as a depressed asset by eUniverse in 2002, along with Josh Berman. They got matched up with DeWolfe, and saw this crazy Friendster coming out of nowhere and decided to build something like it. They had a domain they weren't using called MySpace.com, which they were going to use for another online storage project. So they grabbed Aber Whitcomb, fired up a ColdFusion IDE and given the other properties eUniverse was sitting on had the expertise to get everything up and running fairly quickly. So they launched MySpace internally first and then had little contests to see who could get the most people to sign up. eUniverse had tens of millions of users on the other properties so they emailed them too. Within two years they had 20 million users and were the centerpiece of the eUniverse portfolio. Wanting in on what the young kids were doing these days, Rupert Murdoch and News Corporation, or NewsCorp for short, picked up the company for $580 Million in cash. It's like an episode of Succession, right? After the acquisition of Myspace by news corporation, Myspace continued its exponential growth. Later in the year, the site started signing up 200,000 new users every day. About a year later, it was registering approx. 320,000 users each day. They localized into different languages and became the biggest website in the US. So they turned on the advertising machine, paying back their purchase price by doing $800 million in revenue back to NewsCorp.  MySpace had become the first big social media platform that was always free that allowed users to freely express their minds and thoughts with millions of other users, provided they were 13 years or older. They restricted access to profiles of people younger than 16 years in such a way that they couldn't be viewed by people over 18 years old. That was to keep sexual predators from accessing the profile of a minor. Kids turned out to be a challenge. In 2006, during extensive research the company began detecting and deleting profiles of registered sex offenders which had started showing up on the platform.  Myspace partnered with Sentinel Tech Holdings Corporation to build a searchable, national database containing names, physical descriptions, and other identity details known as the Sentinel Safe which allowed them to keep track of over half a million registered sex offenders from  U.S. government records. This way they developed the first national database of convicted sex offenders to protect kids on the platform, which they then provided to state attorney generals when the sex offenders tried to use MySpace.  Facebook was created in 2004 and Twitter was created in 2006. They picked up market share, but MySpace continued to do well in 2007 then not as well in 2008. By 2009, Facebook surpassed Myspace in the number of unique U.S. visitors. Myspace began a rapid decline and lost members fast. Network effects can disappear as quickly as they are created. They kept the site simple and basic; people would log in, make new friends, and share music, photos, and chat with people. Facebook and Twitter constantly introduced new features for users to explore; this kept the existing users on the site and attracted more users. Then social media companies like twitter began to target users on Myspace.  New and more complicated issues kept coming up. Pages were vandalized, there were phishing attacks, malware got posted to the site, and there were outages as the ColdFusion code had been easy to implement but proved harder to hyperscale. In fact, few had needed to scale a site like MySpace had in that era. Not only were users abandoning the platform, but employees at Myspace started to leave. The changes to MySpace's executive ranks went down quicky in June 2009 by a layoff of 37.5% of its workforce reducing, the employees went down from 1,600 to 1,000. Myspace attempted to rebrand itself as primarily a music site to try and gain the audience they lost. They changed the layout to make it look more attractive but continued a quick decline just as Facebook and Twitter were in the midst of a meteoric rise. In 2011 News Corporation sold Myspace to Specific Media and Justin Timberlake for around $35 million. Timberlake wanted to make a platform where fans could go and communicate with their favorite entertainers, listen to new music, watch videos, share music, and connect with others who liked the same things. Like Geocities but for music lovers. They never really managed to turn things around. In 2016, Myspace and its parent company were acquired by Time Inc. and later Time inc. was in turn purchased by the Meredith Corporation. A few months later the news cycle on and about the platform became less positive. A hacker retrieved 427 million Myspace passwords and tried to sell them for $2,800. In 2019, Myspace accidentally deleted over 50 million digital files including photos, songs, and videos during a server migration. Everything up to 2015 was erased. In some ways that's not the worst thing, considering some of the history left on older profiles. MySpace continues to push music today, with shows that include original content, like interviews with artists. It's more of a way for artists to project their craft than a social network. It's featured content, either sponsored by a label or artist, or from artists so popular or with such an intriguing story their label doesn't need to promote them. There are elements of a social network left, but nothing like the other social networks of the day. And there's some beauty in that simplicity. MySpace was always more than just a social networking website; it was the social network that kickstarted the web 2.0 experience we know today. Tom was everyone who joined the networks first friend. So he became the first major social media star. MySpace became the most visited social networking site in the world, often surpassing Google in number of visitors. Then the network effect moved elsewhere, and those who inherited the users analyzed what caused them to move away from MySpace and either through copying features, out innovating, or acquisition, have managed to remain dominant for over a decade. But there's always something else right around the corner. One of the major reasons people abandoned MySpace was to be with those who thought just like them. When Facebook was only available to college kids it had a young appeal. It slowly leaked into the mainstream and my grandmother started typing the word like when I posted pictures of my kid. Because we grew up. They didn't attempt to monetize too early. They remained stable. They didn't spend more than they needed to keep the site going, so never lost control to investors. Meanwhile, MySpace grew to well over a thousand people to support a web property that would take a dozen to support today. Facebook may move fast and break things. But they do so because they saw what happens when we don't.

As the conversation on online safety grows ever louder, MPs and MEPs are to welcome whistleblower Frances Haugen while Mark Zuckerberg's tech firm promised new safety features for Instagram. On the Sky News Daily podcast with Dermot Murnaghan, we are joined by Six Degrees founder Andrew Weinreich and Cecilia Kang, a national tech correspondent for the New York Times.Daily podcast team:Senior podcast producer - Annie JoyceInterviews producer - Tatiana AldersonArchive - Simon WindsorArchive - Rob FellowesArchive - Nelly StefanovaMusic - Steven Wheeler

Some people stumble onto their startup ideas and become accidental entrepreneurs. That definitely wasn't the case for Andrew. Andrew knew he wanted to be an entrepreneur, he just didn't know what kind of company to build.Andrew understood that the Internet was going to create lots of new entrepreneurial opportunities, but finding one that wasn't going to run into a lot of competition from existing offline businesses was a challenge. Eventually, Andrew recognized the Internet was going to create new opportunities for networking that hadn't previously existed. It was, in his words, an "inevitability."Beating everyone else to the opportunity, in 1997, Andrew launched the Internet's first social networking website. He called it SixDegrees.com, and it was a place where people could connect with their networks and make new connections based on mutual friends.For a complete transcript of the episode, click here.

Six Degrees was the first online social network, allowing users to connect with their real-world contacts by creating a profile within a database. It was created by entrepreneur Andrew Weinreich. But Six Degrees never achieved the scale of later social networks like Facebook or MySpace, and Weinreich sold the site in 1999. He spoke to Lucy Burns.

Six Degrees was the first online social network, allowing users to connect with their real-world contacts by creating a profile within a database. It was created by entrepreneur Andrew Weinreich. But Six Degrees never achieved the scale of later social networks like Facebook or MySpace, and Weinreich sold the site in 1999. He speaks to Lucy Burns about the challenges and adventures of setting it up.

Andrew Weinreich is a social networking pioneer and founder of 7 tech startups, including sixdegrees, the world’s first social network. In Predicting Our Future, he interviews leading entrepreneurs to predict massive opportunities for the next generation of startup founders to change the world. Andrew’s knack for uncovering the next big trends in technology and then building successful companies has established his unique position within the tech startup world. He’s currently the founder of startup launchpad Andrew’s Roadmaps and Chairman of data analytics startup Indicative, as well as advisor to a number of startups.

You probably know Bitly as those short links you see on social media. But Bitly's real business revolves around Big Data. On this episode, co-hosts Andrew Weinreich and Jeremy Levy interview Bitly CEO Mark Josephson about how the company's short links reach billions of users each month. This episode was produced and edited by Lauren Feiner and Esmeralda Martinez. Our music is "Is That You Or Are You You" by Chris Zabriskie. This podcast is sponsored by Indicative, the leading behavioral analytics platform. Go to www.indicative.com to learn more. Be the first to know when a new episode is released and stay up to date on the latest data news by signing up for our newsletter: goo.gl/forms/FDhgnhRCfkydkjGr2 Read more about the podcast and Mark Josephson at decidingbydata.com. Follow us on Twitter @decidingbydata

Visit EOFire.com for complete show notes of every Podcast episode. Andrew is a serial entrepreneur and social networking pioneer. To date, he’s founded 7 startups and has been awarded 2 software patents. Since 2013, he has sold 2 businesses while advising 5 tech startups. He  is currently the co-founder and Chairman of Indicative and the founder of Andrew's Roadmaps.

Will Artificial Intelligence lead to a third world war? Can Big Data cure cancer? Co-hosts Andrew Weinreich and Jeremy Levy learn the answers to these questions in an interview with Matt Turck, Managing Director at FirstMark Capital, who invests in Big Data, Artificial Intelligence, and Machine Learning startups. Matt also runs monthly events, Data Driven NYC and Hardwired NYC. This episode was produced and edited by Lauren Feiner and Esmeralda Martinez. Our music is "Is That You Or Are You You" by Chris Zabriskie. This podcast is sponsored by Indicative, the leading behavioral analytics platform. Go to www.indicative.com to learn more. Be the first to know when a new episode is released and stay up to date on the latest data news by signing up for our newsletter: goo.gl/forms/FDhgnhRCfkydkjGr2 Read more about the podcast and Matt Turck at decidingbydata.com. Follow us on Twitter @decidingbydata

David S. Rose, one of the most prominent angel investors in New York, says angel investing is about to change for good. David has founded half a dozen companies, but his latest, Gust, is a SaaS platform connecting entrepreneurs to early-stage investors. In this first episode of Deciding by Data, serial entrepreneurs Andrew Weinreich and Jeremy Levy, co-founders of Indicative, interview David S. Rose about how data is transforming investing. This episode was produced and edited by Lauren Feiner and Esmeralda Martinez. Our music is "Is That You Or Are You You" by Chris Zabriskie. This podcast is sponsored by Indicative, the leading behavioral analytics platform. Go to www.indicative.com to learn more. Be the first to know when a new episode is released and stay up to date on the latest data news by signing up for our newsletter: https://goo.gl/forms/FDhgnhRCfkydkjGr2 Read more about the podcast and David S. Rose at decidingbydata.com. Follow us on Twitter @decidingbydata

Ever wonder how the world’s most innovative companies make decisions? In this new podcast series, serial entrepreneurs and Indicative co-founders Andrew Weinreich and Jeremy Levy interview business leaders about how they use data to guide their companies. Subscribe today to be the first to get the inside scoop on the magic behind successful businesses. Sign-up for our newsletter to be notified of our weekly episodes and the latest data news: https://goo.gl/forms/dJFKiGDhkk7pG0g42 Follow us on Twitter @DecidingbyData This podcast is produced and edited by Lauren Feiner and Esmeralda Martinez. Our music is by Chris Zabriskie through the Free Music Archive.

I've spent the past 15 years starting and building businesses. With Andrew's Roadmaps, I run intensive educational boot camps for startup founders. We've had more than 200 CEOs come through our program in the past 18 months. *Founder & CEO of sixdegrees: Original social networking site of 3.5 million members. Sold in December 2000. *Founder & CEO of Joltage, Inc: First company to provide operational support system to wireless networks. *Founder & CEO of I Stand For, Inc. Full service technology ASP to political campaigns and non-profits. Sold in March 2006. *Co-Founder & Chairman of Xtify. Location-based services platform that allows any web site to location-enable their service. Acquired by IBM in 2013. *Founder & Chairman of MeetMoi. The first location-based mobile dating service available across all major carriers in the United States that matches users based on preferences and proximity. Acquired by Match.com in 2014. *Co-Founder & Chairman of Indicative. *Founder of Andrew's Roadmaps. A comprehensive crash course for Internet startup founders. *Advisor to Lenddo *Advisor to WayBetter Specialties: Mergers and acquisition; corporate law; investment banking. Now I'm looking for the next generation of experts and startup thought leaders to interview for my tech/business podcast Predicting Our Future. http://www.andrewsroadmaps.com https://twitter.com/andrewsroadmaps https://www.facebook.com/andrewsroadmaps

When it comes to voter turnout, America lags behind much of the world. Could online voting help spur more civic engagement? The 2016 election was plagued by headlines about Russian hacking, faulty voting machines, and frustration over the Electoral College. But with all the concern around cybersecurity and the integrity of elections, is online voting really the solution? Does the Internet make elections less or more secure? What can the U.S. learn from countries like Estonia? Evan is joined by Andrew Weinreich, tech entrepreneur and host of the podcast, “Predicting Our Future.”

Hear the incredible journey of Andrew Weinreich with SixDegrees, the first ever social network that sold it's patent to LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman. Andrew Weinreich is a serial entrepreneur, social networking pioneer, and active presence in NYC’s Silicon Alley for 2 decades. To date, he’s founded 7 startups and has been awarded 2 software patents. Since 2013, he has sold 2 businesses, including Xtify to IBM, while advising 5 tech startups such as Classpass. He is currently the co-founder and Chairman of Indicative, a data analytics startup. He leads Predicting Our Future, a podcast about the next revolutions in technology.

In this podcast episode, my guest is Andrew Weinreich. We talk about the future of homebuilding against the backdrop of Andrew’s new podcast Predicting Our Future.  Is construction ripe for disruption? Andrew believes that homebuilding is much closer to a tipping point than ever before. In this interview, he explains why. “In the United States, […] The post Predicting Our Future with Andrew Weinreich appeared first on AEC Business.

Entrepreneurs are often fascinated with the idea of disruption. The reason is obvious - it is typically associated with entrepreneurs who have defeated a giant, and/or redefined an industry. The reality is that disruption is arguably the most difficult and risky approach to entrepreneurship.  My guest this week, Andrew Weinreich, is an expert when it comes to the topic of disruption. Andrew founded SixDegrees (the first social networking platform) and is the "father" of social networking. Andrew joins SalesFounders to share his views on innovation and how he has founded multiple companies that all have one thing in common - massive disruption. Andrew Weinreich is a serial entrepreneur, social networking pioneer, and active presence in NYC’s Silicon Alley for 2 decades. To date, he’s founded 7 startups and has been awarded 2 software patents. Since 2013, he has sold 2 businesses, including Xtify to IBM, while advising 5 tech startups. He is currently the co-founder and Chairman of Indicative, a data analytics startup.

Have you ever wondered what it would be like if you could predict where the world was headed? What kind of company would you build or invest in if you could see what disruptions were coming next? This is a sneak preview of the new podcast, Predicting Our Future, where serial entrepreneur Andrew Weinreich interviews leaders in different verticals to predict what changes and opportunities await.

Andrew is a serial entrepreneur and social networking pioneer. To date, he’s founded 7 startups and has been awarded 2 software patents. Since 2013, he has sold 2 businesses while advising 5 tech startups. He  is currently the co-founder and Chairman of Indicative and the founder of Andrew's Roadmaps. Sponsors: eVoice: See how eVoice can help you connect with your prospects, partners, and customers quickly and easily! eVoice is offering Fire Nation an extended, 60 day free trial - just visit eVoice.com and use promo code FIRE! M1 Finance: If you’re looking for an online broker who will let you customize and automate your investments, visit m1finance.com/fire and get 6 months of service for free!

In 1999, Andrew Weinreich sold Six Degrees, a social networking site based on the same idea that sparked the likes of LinkedIn and Facebook, for $125 million. In the following years, he went on to sell three other companies including one to IBM and another to Match.com. Most founders are lucky to have one successful exit, but Weinreich has already had four. In this interview, you’ll learn: The common denominator among all four of Weinreich’s exits. Where to find the company with the highest probability of acquiring you. How to hire an M&A professional for a “Dual Track” mandate. The mistake most entrepreneurs make when they assemble a board. The simple technique Weinreich used to let buyers know he was interested in being acquired (without sounding desperate).