Podcast appearances and mentions of Michael Birch

Today's show features music from Breck Lee, Keith Johnson The Prince of the Delta Blues, John Tussey, Michael Lewis, Emily Wilson, Steel Skarecrow, Michael Birch, and Debra Cohen

Recorded back in August during the hottest summer on record, Michael-Birch Pierce sits down with us to kiki about fiber arts, self-expression, queerness, and how we experience the world. A truly mind-opening episode! Please support our guest! Instagram: @michaelbirch Website: www.michaelbirchpierce.com Please support us! Instagram: @yeahbuttpod @thegaborium @iraamcintosh TikTok: @thegayethnographer Please subscribe, rate, and review us everywhere and tell your friends!

Episode 617: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) talk about the most important conversations they had when they were just getting started. — Show Notes:  (0:00) Scott Belsky's pep talk (5:43) Enrolling in Getting Rich (9:37) John Prendergrast asks a better question (13:37 Michael Birch pulls Shaan aside — Links: • Get our business idea database here https://clickhubspot.com/mfm • Sabi - https://sabisushi.wordpress.com/ • Shaan's online “resume” - https://shaan-sample.mystrikingly.com/ — Check Out Shaan's Stuff: Need to hire? You should use the same service Shaan uses to hire developers, designers, & Virtual Assistants → it's called Shepherd (tell ‘em Shaan sent you): https://bit.ly/SupportShepherd — Check Out Sam's Stuff: • Hampton - https://www.joinhampton.com/ • Ideation Bootcamp - https://www.ideationbootcamp.co/ • Copy That - https://copythat.com • Hampton Wealth Survey - https://joinhampton.com/wealth • Sam's List - http://samslist.co/ My First Million is a HubSpot Original Podcast // Brought to you by The HubSpot Podcast Network // Production by Arie Desormeaux // Editing by Ezra Bakker Trupiano

Listener feedback on some recent podcast topics, and a brief recap of two court decisions that embarassed the City of Winnipeg, opens Episode 36. This first segment points towards follow-ups in upcoming episodes- such as the alarming delay of an ambulance in St. Boniface. Those may become more commonplace if the City rams through proposed bike lanes. Marty also speaks about the passing of longtime family friend Norman Freedman, who contributed so much to our city as a social worker, volunteer and community leader. 17:39 - It's the first TGCTS interview of the 2023 provincial election! Last week Marty ventured to a fundraiser at the Pony Corral to meet a Progressive Conservative candidate poised to try to do the unthinkable- break the NDP hammerlock on constituencies north of the 53rd parallel. Listeners will hear Sports Minister Obby Khan prime the enthusiastic and multi-ethnic crowd with a distinctly non-partisan message about the Conservative's efforts to woo voters in the 16 remote communities of Keewatinook, and then hear from the candidate himself. 25:18 - Michael Birch is a newcomer to politics but no newcomer to making things happen. Birch brings voters a resume featuring an extensive background in business development, working with First Nations communities. As the Tories look to open a new northern front in the seat-by-seat battle to win the election, Birch says, "We're not going in this to lose!" In a fast and fun interview, he describes his platform of reforming the "welfare dependent state" and creating economic prosperity in those remote communities by expanding mining operations. Birch also reveals his secret weapon- a campaign team that once dislodged an NDP deputy premier. Marty assesses the Tory campaign tactics in light of polls showing a neck and neck race- do they improve the chances to upend the NDP and inch towards re-election? **  Chip in this week to ensure more great election reporting ** - Online via ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠paypal.com/paypalme/MartyGoldMedia⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠ 38:49 Part 2- Two items under the Crime tab you'll want to hear about: 1) A listener sent along a link to a TV news story about Premier Stefanson's commitment for increased public safety funding for downtown. He figured Marty might have some observations. Sure thing! How was the headline for the video misleading? Hear why the true nature of the extremist group that Winnipeg newsrooms love to platform is hardly "grassroots". 2) Marty reads aloud an online commentary by a River Heights property owner who has had to call the cops 15 - fifteen - times this year. "I agree with all the cameras they are putting downtown … it's about time! But that does nothing to help Osborne Village, West Broadway, Wolseley, Crescentwood, etc." She went into specific shocking details you won't believe- police response was rare and when they did show up, removing the problematic criminals was not their priority. And this wasn't about loitering- the cases included church, garage and car break-ins, a wanted murder suspect, and a vandal toting around a giant hammer. "I am thoroughly disgusted with this neighbourhood and this city. The crime in River Heights/ Crescentwood is rampant!" At the end of the episode, Marty notes who her city councilor is- John Orlikow. A few observations are voiced about Orlikow denouncing a court ruling that will costs taxpayers $5M in damages to Gem Equities. While bureaucrats he was pressuring "were aware their conduct was unlawful and likely to cause harm to the plaintiffs", do the facts back up his claim that his ethics and conduct in the scandal were above reproach and the court got it wrong? In coming episodes, listeners will hear the judge's findings about Orlikow quoted directly from her ruling, and more comments about the case - from a former city hall insider. ********** - JOIN OUR FACEBOOK GROUP ⁠https://www.facebook.com/groups/TGCTS⁠ - To sponsor podcasts / contribute support by email: martygoldlive@gmail.com

Episode 443: Shaan Puri (@ShaanVP) talks to Scott Harrison (@scottharrison), Founder and CEO of Charity Water, about life as a nightclub promoter to starting Charity Water. Want to see more MFM? Subscribe to the MFM YouTube channel here. Click here to sign up for our event in Austin, TX on Saturday April 29th: mfmpod.com/atx Vote for MFM to win a Webby: mfmpod.com/webby Check Out Sam's Stuff: * Hampton * Ideation Bootcamp * Copy That Check Out Shaan's Stuff: * Power Writing Course * Daily Newsletter ----- Links: *Charity Water *The Spring *Shaan's 35th Birthday donation * Do you love MFM and want to see Sam and Shaan's smiling faces? Subscribe to our Youtube channel. ------ Show Notes: (03:20) - Introduction to Scott (14:05) - Working in Liberia (20:55) - Start of Charity Water (28:20) - Scott's approach to marketing charity (37:05) - Michael Birch story (42:57) - Cost of giving water for 1 person (48:20) - Practice saying yes ----- Past guests on My First Million include Rob Dyrdek, Hasan Minhaj, Balaji Srinivasan, Jake Paul, Dr. Andrew Huberman, Gary Vee, Lance Armstrong, Sophia Amoruso, Ariel Helwani, Ramit Sethi, Stanley Druckenmiller, Peter Diamandis, Dharmesh Shah, Brian Halligan, Marc Lore, Jason Calacanis, Andrew Wilkinson, Julian Shapiro, Kat Cole, Codie Sanchez, Nader Al-Naji, Steph Smith, Trung Phan, Nick Huber, Anthony Pompliano, Ben Askren, Ramon Van Meer, Brianne Kimmel, Andrew Gazdecki, Scott Belsky, Moiz Ali, Dan Held, Elaine Zelby, Michael Saylor, Ryan Begelman, Jack Butcher, Reed Duchscher, Tai Lopez, Harley Finkelstein, Alexa von Tobel, Noah Kagan, Nick Bare, Greg Isenberg, James Altucher, Randy Hetrick and more. ----- Additional episodes you might enjoy: • #224 Rob Dyrdek - How Tracking Every Second of His Life Took Rob Drydek from 0 to $405M in Exits • #209 Gary Vaynerchuk - Why NFTS Are the Future • #178 Balaji Srinivasan - Balaji on How to Fix the Media, Cloud Cities & Crypto * #169 - How One Man Started 5, Billion Dollar Companies, Dan Gilbert's Empire, & Talking With Warren Buffett • ​​​​#218 - Why You Should Take a Think Week Like Bill Gates • Dave Portnoy vs The World, Extreme Body Monitoring, The Future of Apparel Retail, "How Much is Anthony Pompliano Worth?", and More • How Mr Beast Got 100M Views in Less Than 4 Days, The $25M Chrome Extension, and More

This month on the Brews Less Traveled Beer Club Podcast, host Brian Hatheway and co-host Mike explore the craft beer scene of San Diego, California. We continue our travels in this not-so-lesser-known beer city with Mikkeller Brewing, an international brewery. This brewery has announced they are shutting down their San Diego facility at the end of 2022. We are happy to have some of the last San Diego-brewed beers from Mikkeller, their Bah Hum Bock and Henry's Holiday Cheer! In this episode, Brian and Mike become quite the dynamic duo! These two go through the Mikkeller beers of the night, highlighting the famous can art and “Henry” character created by artist Keith Shore. They run a round of not-so-rapid fire questions and dive into Mike's hay days as a YouTube star. Finally, Brian recounts how San Diego helped in the Brave Noise Movement. Information on the Brave Noise Movement and the AntiSexist, AntiRacist, ProEquality Beer Club is also highlighted. You can drink along with us from the comfort of home! Join the Brews Less Traveled beer club, get delicious beers delivered monthly, then tune into our weekly interactive virtual beer tastings on Wednesday evenings. Visit https://brewvana.com/product/beer-of-the-month-club to join! Cheers! Subscribe to the most well-traveled beer podcast in the nation! Follow us as we travel the country finding America's BEST undiscovered craft beer! Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/brewvana Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/brewvana Mikkeller Brewing - https://mikkeller.com Brave Noise - https://www.bravenoisebeer.com/

Michael-Birch is a fiber artist and fashion designer. Pierce has interned for Diane von Furstenberg, embroidered Christmas decorations for the Obama White House, and designed an exclusive collection for Levi's. They have performed their embroidered portraits at Oscar and Super Bowl events, Design/Miami, and SXSW, and worked with clients such as Visa, Target, Amazon, Delta, NBCUniversal, and Airbnb. And they have exhibited in numerous galleries and museums both domestically and abroad. In this hour long conversation we discuss: - Surviving as an artist during a pandemic - Collaborating with corporations - Dealing with scam inquiries - and more! Michael-Birch's site: michaelbirchpierce.com Michael-Birch's IG: @michaelbirch Noah on Patreon: patreon.com/noahscalin Music by Jantrax

Caroline Bird was only fifteen when she had her first collection of poems published; she’s been writing since she was eight, hiding in the corner behind her bunk beds at home. This was in Leeds, where Caroline was brought up, the daughter of playwright Michael Birch and theatre director Jude Kelly. She’s now published six collections of poetry, along with a clutch of plays for theatre and radio. Her latest poetry sequence “The Air Year” was awarded the prestigious Forward Prize for the best collection of poetry published this last year. In conversation with Michael Berkeley, Caroline Bird talks about the impact of being published as a teenager, and about the depression that led her to drug addiction by the time she was a student. She confesses she finds classical music without words almost unbearably emotional – as a child, it made her deeply sad. Understanding that sadness and coming to terms with it, she returns now to music she heard when she was young, going as far back as the music her mother played to her in the womb. Music choices include Rachmaninov’s Sonata for Cello and Piano; Janet Baker singing Elgar’s Sea Pictures; Billie Holiday; and Lionel Bart's Oliver! Produced by Elizabeth Burke A Loftus Media production for BBC Radio 3

Jeff Bezos's Amazon and Jack Ma's Alibaba report bumper profits, but both online shopping giants face challenges. Rory Cellan-Jones speaks to the BBC's Asia business correspondent Karishma Vaswani about Jack Ma's run-in with Chinese regulators, while BBC technology reporter Jane Wakefield assess the impact of Jeff Bezos's decision to step away from day-to-day running of Amazon. Plus we hear from Eliot Higgins, founder of online investigators Bellingcat, about how the internet has changed intelligence gathering. And Leo Kelion speaks to social networking pioneer Michael Birch about his plans to relaunch the social network platform Bebo. (Photo: Jack Ma at a conference in Paris in 2019, Credit: Getty Images)

Each week James brings on the show an entrepreneur who shares their biggest challenges and struggles in business. James coaches the business owner through these challenges by asking those hard hitting questions in order to get to the bottom of these problems and help the business owner soar to success. In this episode James talks with Michael Birch, who runs a business called Rusty Rails. Michael is dyslexic and in this episode we discuss how this could actually help him soar to success. For more info head to https://jamessinclair.net/ Find us on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/jamesjimbosinclair/ Connect with James on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/_jamessinclair/ Watch James’ Latest Business Vlog https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTm2gK928YuBSEU0lvdFJoA

Sam Sethi talked to Sháá Wasmund about where her name originated from and how she managed to work for Chris Eubank, Sir James Dyson, Sir Bob Geldof all before she was 30.We talked about how she turned down £45m by not working for Michael Birch and that surprisingly isn’t her biggest regret.We also talked about her current role as an online educator helping small business owners via her Facebook groups ‘Freedom Collective’ & ‘The 6 Figure Expert Club’.We finally talked about why Sháá joins other people’s masterminds in order to help herself grow.

Anda Gânscă este clujeancă, locuiește la New York și este CEO & Co-founder al Knotch, unul din cele mai dinamice start-ups din Statele Unite. Din 2013 și până acum, Knotch a atras peste $34 milioane de dolari investiție, din care $20 de milioane doar anul acesta, de la unii dintre cei mai renumiți investitori la nivel mondial: New Enterprise Associates, Xochi & Michael Birch (fondatorii Bebo, vândut spre AOL pentru $850 milioane), Greylock Partners și mulți alții.Am avut ocazia să o întâlnesc la Cluj, într-o vizită acasă și să vorbesc cu ea despre cum a reușit să atragă investitori de un asemenea calibru, cum a devenit antreprenor în Statele Unite și ce înseamnă să crești accelerat un start-up în tehnologie. Am atins cu Anda următoarele subiecte:De unde a dobândit spiritul antreprenorialCum a plecat din Cluj la Stanford Ce i-a fost cel mai greu în Sillicon ValleyCum s-a adaptat culturii americane și investitorilorCum a atras unii dintre mai prestigiosi investitori în KnotchDe ce chiar și o rundă semnificativă de bani de la investitori nu înseamnă succesDe ce banii pe îi iei de la investitori contează mai puțin decât banii pe care îi faciGo to market semnificativ înainte să iei bani de la VCsDespre începuturile KnotchCe este Knotch și cum funcționeazăCare au fost cele mai challenging aspecte din creșterea KnotchCum a descoperit punctul de inflexiune când și-a dat seama că Knotch va creșteDe ce e important să poți da grant-uri de acțiuni oamenilor care vin în firmăCe planuri are legate de construirea unei echipe în RomâniaDiferența de mindset dintre lucrul într-un start-up și o companie mareRealitatea din spatele conducerii unei companiiCe lecții a învâțat din eșecuri și de ce e bine să vorbim despre eșecDe ce e mai bine în România pentru femei antreprenor decât în Statele UniteCe trebuie să facem ca să avem mai multe femei implicate în zona de tehnologieCărți și link-uri menționate:Andrew Grove - Only the Paranoid SurviveStanford US-Russia Forum, fondat de către Anda - https://usrussia.stanford.edu/Campania Trinet - Knotch People Matter - https://youtu.be/elYtY_nGG5A

Michael Birch sold his social networking site to AOL for $850M....and then bought it back for $1M years later. (buy low, sell high. boys and girls). His business portfolio is impressive. He's an early investor in companies like Calm and Pinterest, owns two giant hotels, and bought a private island off of Richard Branson. Despite all that success, he's a down to earth guy, and in this podcast he talks through his early struggles and failed ideas before he had his billion dollar breakthrough and reminisces his days being head to head with Zuckerberg. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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Mark Cummins is the co-founder of Pointy, a startup that helps local retailers get their products online. Retailers just plug in a Pointy device, and the complete contents of their store is displayed online automatically. Previously Mark co-founded Plink, a visual search engine company that was the first UK-based company acquired by Google in 2010. Mark spent several years at Google post-acquisition, working on the Visual Search team. Mark was the first person in the UK to sell a startup to Google, when he sold his previous company Plink, which now makes up a huge part of Google image search. Mark and Pointy have some interesting backers like Paul Allen of Microsoft, the founders of Google Maps, Draper Associates and Matt Mullenweg from Wordpress and Michael Birch of Bebo. Mark's co-founder Charles Bibby also designed the security system for London Olympics in 2012 Pointy allows independent retailers to bring their inventory online through their unique device. He's got some great figures on how the "Retail Apocalypse" is overstated and how bricks and mortar retail is growing. Pointy is reimagining search, creating a database of all of the world's offline products that gives your average bricks and mortar store more of a foothold in the fights against Amazon. Pointy has the ability to create the largest system of distribution warehouses in the world too as a result.

Visiting an artist’s studio is a precious gift, and visiting the studio of fiber artist Michael-Birch Pierce is a special kind of awesome. His studio, in an old warehouse on Mayo Island in the middle of the James River, is a sensuous experience. Crystals and sequins sparkle from every surface, and sumptuous fur, velvet and lace are piled in every corner. Michael-Birch uses these materials in his work, using his background in fashion design to exquisitely craft sculptural pieces that challenge to viewer to think deeply about the identity that we wear. At the same time, Michael-Birch recognizes the courage of vulnerability as a way to claim who we are and connect authentically with others. Michael-Birch’s lush and revealing work is a part of the current costume and textiles exhibition at The Valentine, Our Hearts on Our Sleeves. The brilliant Kristen Stewart, curator of the show, joined me in his studio for a joyful conversation about art.

Julia Hartz is the Co-Founder & CEO @ Eventbrite, the unicorn startup that is the world's largest event technology platform, powering over 2 million events around the world each year. They have raised over $330m from some of the greats of industry including Roelof Botha @ Sequoia Capital, Jeff Clavier @ SoftTech, David Saks, Bebo's Michael Birch, Tiger Global and many more. Under Julia's leadership, she has taken Eventbrite to become the world's largest event technology platform and has received multiple accolades for workplace culture, being named the best place to work in SF for 7 years running. Personally, Julia has won numerous awards including Fortune's 40 Under 40, Inc's 35 Under 35 and Most Powerful Female Entrepreneurs. In Today’s Episode You Will Learn: 1.) How Julia came to found Eventbrite with her husband Kevin from a small apartment in Potrero Hill and turned it into the unicorn it is today? 2.) How did Julia and Kevin meet? What was the meet-cute? How did that translate into the founding of Eventbrite? How did Julia think about partnering with her fiancee at the time, as a business partner? What made it also a great business partnership? 3.) Why does Julia believe that creating a company is like creating a family? How has Julia seen herself scale as CEO of the company, with the immense scaling and growth of the firm? What have been the challenges and how did she overcome them? 4.) What does Julia believe are the requirements for successful CEO transition? How can this be managed correctly both internally and externally? What other elements made last year a particularly momentus year for change at Eventbrite? 5.) How does Julia think about balancing the immediate elements of the present day with the long-term vision for the roadmap? What is the right mindset to adopt? How does one look to prevent "Innovators Dilemma"? How does Julia split her time? Items Mentioned In Today’s Show: Julia’s Fave Book: Overwhelmed Julia's Fave Blog: The Skimm As always you can follow Harry, The Twenty Minute VC and Julia on Twitter here! Likewise, you can follow Harry on Snapchat here for mojito madness and all things 20VC. Lattice is the #1 performance management solution for growing companies. With Lattice, it’s easy to launch 360 performance review cycles as often as you want. And you also get a continuous feedback system with OKR goal tracking, real-time feedback, and 1-on-1 meetings to make sure employees get feedback between reviews. Find out why the likes of CoinBase, PlanGrid, Birchbox and WePay trust Lattice as their performance management solution by heading over to lattice.com to start investing in your people. That’s Lattice.com. Recurly, the company powering subscription success, with Recurly’s enterprise-class subscription management platform providing rapid time-to-value without requiring massive integration effort and expense and they have the ability to not only increase revenue by 7% but also reduce the all-important churn rate. That is why thousands of customers from Twitch to HubSpot to CBS Interactive trust Recurly as their subscription management platform. Check them out on recurly.com that really is a must.

This is the OverClocked PodCast, a weekly dose of video game music and conversation from OC ReMix.org! This week we dig up the story on Crypt of the Necrodancer: OverClocked with EDM mastermind Flexstyle, brush up on our Capcom history with an episode of Root Note, and sing that very publisher's praises in a Playlist that actually doesn’t have very much Mega Man!Direct Download: https://ia601504.us.archive.org/34/items/OverClockedPodCast53/OverClocked%20PodCast%2053.mp3Next week's Playlist: Water musicReMix ReWind:Super Mega Ultra Pipe House - DDRKirby(ISQ)Fight Against a Somewhat Delicious Cake - WillRockJust One Wish - Doc NanoClub King Bowser - bLiNdA Yo'ster Sunset - AmphibiousOyster Me Timbers - Hylian Lemon & Phonetic HeroIn-Tune Interview with Michael Birch (Flexstyle)Crypt of the NecroDancer: OverClockedRoot Note: Capcom-Europe - Wasted Time, The Final Countdown, Montage-Iron Maiden - The Trooper, Montage-Deep Purple - Burn-Jethro Tull - Black Sunday-Tony Macalpine - Key to the City-Yngwie Malmsteen - Liar-Joe Satriani - Crushing Day-Marty Friedman - Saturation Point-Beatles - And Your Bird Can Sing-Steely Dan - Reelin' in the Years-Thin Lizzy - The Boys are Back in Town-The Rippingtons - Earthbound-T-Square - Faces-YMO - Rydeen-Casiopea - Navigators-Mega Man 2 - Woodman, Dr. Wily 1, Airman-Street Fighter 2010 - Planet 1, Area 3-UN Squadron - Round 7-Mega Man X2 - Bubbly Crab-Chip n Dale Rescue Rangers - Zone J-Mega Man X - Spark MandrillThe Playlist: Capcom musicMain Theme - Rockman Xover (KyleJcrb)Battle Music 1 - Devil May Cry 3 (SquarEvil)Congratulations Everybody - Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney (MajorThird)Theme of M. Bison - Street Fighter II X (Eino)Abandoned Memory - Mega Man 10 Image Soundtrack (FenixDown)Past, Present, and Future Perfect - Originally from The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Ages, ReMixed by ProtoDome (genghisdani)Mansion Basement - Resident Evil: Director’s Cut (Stephen)Into Free ~Dangan~ - Dragon’s Dogma (Bryan)Bumper music:Late Night Sneakin' - HappyBivouacJet Set Groove #3 - Hideki NaganumaS.E. Tape - SEGAOldies But Happies - Hideki NaganumaThe Concept of Love - Hideki Naganuma Like It Like This Like That - Hideki NaganumaS.E. System01 - SEGAExtra info:Twitter: @OCRpodcastBryan: @LordMeldorrStephen: @StephenKelly180Discord: https://discord.gg/KJfvAuFEmail: podcast@ocremix.orgYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/ocremixGoogle Play: https://play.google.com/music/listen#/ps/Ivb42azxllrsxwg7zavtptcho2iiTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/overclocked-podcast/id1057063792?mt=2Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/overclocked-podcastRSS: https://feeds.feedburner.com/OverclockedPodcastOverClocked ReMix is dedicated to the appreciation and promotion of video game music as an art form. Learn more at http://ocremix.org/info/About_Us!

In this episode of the Seedcamp Podcast Sean Seton-Rogers from PROfounders Capital meets Carlos to share some of the lessons learned over his career as an investor – from experiencing the “The Bubble” first hand to more recently being able to invest in almost 30 European companies in the last 5 years. Sean has been working closely with great founders helping them to focus in the right things to make sure they can grow and are able to raise their next round. Sean also shares with Carlos the story of his times through the “Social Wars” and how he met with Michael Birch and Xochi Birch founders of Bebo while at Benchmark and helped them grow through their acquisition by AOL. Carlos and Sean also discuss the evolution of the startup ecosystem in Europe and how it became a relevant market for the US investor as well as the rise of Unicorns coming out of Europe. http://www.profounderscapital.com/

Music man Michael "Flexstyle" Birch is here with us tonight-- you might know him from OverClocked ReMix. He has a healthy respect for Rayman and Ace Combat music, so he's all right in our book, but he still must overcome the oceanic quiz segment we cooked up for him. So water you waiting for? Dive in! (Our deepest apologies for that.)

In this interview, Michael Birch reveals what happens when you sell your startup and the things to avoid. He talks about dealing with lawyers, the valuation process and what he has learnt from Bebo.

The view from the top of business. Presented by Evan Davis, The Bottom Line cuts through confusion, statistics and spin to present a clearer view of the business world, through discussion with people running leading and emerging companies. This week Evan's panel of business leaders hail from the worlds of social networking and retail. He challenges them to cast their minds forward and imagine how the Web will look by the year 2020. What will have changed? Will bricks and mortar matter any more, or will everything be in the cloud? They also consider the value of storytelling in business. So many brands these days seem to have a story to tell - but what business benefit really is there in a good yarn? Evan is joined in the studio by Michael Birch, internet entrepreneur and founder of social networking website Bebo; Laura Tenison, founder and managing director of maternity and babywear retailer Jo-Jo Maman Bébé; Justin King, chief executive of supermarket chain Sainsbury's. Producer: Ben Crighton.

Michael Birch is the co-founder of popular youth social networking site Bebo. Agree, disagree, like, don't like...? Feel free to leave a comment at http://mediasnackers.com/2007/01/mediasnackers-podcast61/