Yesterday I appeared on Jason Calacanis’s web TV show, This Week in Start-ups.  You may already know Jason from his current gig as Founder of Mahalo and his successful start-up Weblogs, which AOL purchased. 

TWiT is a recent project by Jason and yesterday was Episode 8.  Last week his guest was a Microsoft exec discussing Bing.   

Our interview was focused on both my efforts at Yahoo as well my previous background in start-ups.  There were a few natural questions about the Local space like how we compare to Yelp and more broadly how Yahoo viewed Bing (short answer: it innovates and that’s good for industry).   We also touched on my experience as Founder and CEO of Covigna, an content mgmt start-up earlier in the decade (whew, time flies).   I enjoyed the few budding entrepreneurs who called in to ask questions.   People often ask me about working in a big company setting (I’ve spent time at AOL and Yahoo!) in comparison to start-ups.  Like I said on the show, entrepreneurship is a journey that might include various stops along the way.  It’s not a career path as much as it is a calling.  Besides that, you can find opportunity to innovate in big settings too. 

The show is pretty entertaining overall.  It has a few diverse segments like the Deadpool (discussing a company that has recently gone under), Homework (where you are assigned a book or movie to watch for discussion) and discussion of the daily news. 

Coming on the eve of Michael Jackson’s passing, we discussed how some major news brands had been scooped by upstarts and how Twitter was re-defining the notion of breaking news. 

Jason and I will both be featured speakers at the Local Search Summit coming-up in July, so check that out if you get a chance. 

Here some pictures of the fancy studio inside Mahalo used for this broadcast:

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