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Mike McCue

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  1. “Yep, we did. I stayed there and built paper software over the course of about six years. And then it was acquired by Netscape and I was at Netscape for about three weeks.”

    2017-02-13 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Mike McCue, CEO, Flipboard · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  2. “You know, there's got to be a different path to space. So ultimately I decided to just pursue the dream of building a company and doing that in the emerging tech world.”

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  3. “Right, I was exactly an astronaut, so I applied to the Air Force Academy to do that. You have to get a congressional nomination, which I managed to get. I couldn't believe I had been able to do that. My father, though, I was the oldest of six. My father had cancer and been sick for many years. And ultimately, he passed away just as I was graduating high school. And I just couldn't do it. I couldn't leave. Also, my dad, you know, said that the rigid military world wouldn't be the right thing for me. Of course, when he was alive, I wanted to do the opposite of what he was saying. But once he was gone, I really thought about that. And I thought, you know, to be an astronaut, I'm going to have to drop bombs on people. It doesn't seem right. Right.”

    2017-02-13 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Mike McCue, CEO, Flipboard · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  4. “I think it had to do with helping people of any background achieve the dreams and things that they wanted to do to be able to say and publish and sort of communicate at much broader levels than were possible before. Possibilities just, you know, we're so wide open. And there was just so many places to innovate and to experiment and learn. So it was just, it was incredibly fortunate that that was kind of this sort of the dawn of this whole information age. And I was right in the beginning of it.”

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  5. “And how it empowered, yes, and how it would empower the human race. And the combination of those two things I was completely at that point.”

    2017-02-13 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Mike McCue, CEO, Flipboard · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  6. “16k of RAM. It changed my life because I was, there was no real opportunity in upstate New York. And in that time, that era, economically or whatever for what I was going to do with my life, I had no sense of what I wanted to do. And when I found Two things the computer and the ability to actually create things on a computer and code and do storytelling on a computer, which is how I thought of video games. And then also one day I ran across an article, an interview with Steve Jobs. Where he talked about how the computer was like a bicycle for the mind.”

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  7. “It was something that I, yeah, and I wanted to be an astronaut. I absolutely was serious about becoming an astronaut. And then my dad one day bought me a computer and it changed my life.”

    2017-02-13 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Mike McCue, CEO, Flipboard · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  8. “Actually, a game called Night Mission that actually did pretty well. It was a game where you had a helicopter and you rescued hostages in a desert. It was modeled after the Iranian hostage crisis. And it was a really cool, fun thing to do. And interestingly enough, I sold it to another company and we worked on it together. We actually released the source code for the game and we wrote a book about how to write video games with the source code. And it did really well. When I was in high school, I was getting revenue from”

    2017-02-13 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Mike McCue, CEO, Flipboard · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  9. “It was my first real company that I had a company when I was in high school called MCubed Software. We make video games. And I called it MCU because it was me and two other mics.”

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  10. “Web On next two, because you were trying to get people on the web. I mean, that was, it wasn't even like we couldn't get publishers and others interesting content on the web For people to look at with the Netscape browser, I mean, really, you sort of created the television and we're trying to create the shows. Or help people build the shows essentially”

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  11. “It was to, you know, Mark really believed in the idea of all sorts of different kinds of media being connected together on the web and virtual reality and 3D graphics. Mark's very prescient, saw a lot of where things were going to ultimately go with the web. And so he saw this as a real opportunity. And interestingly enough, my team, we continued to do the 3D work at Netscape, but ultimately we actually ended up working more on things like the dynamic HTML rendering engine and now creating a way for HTML pages to act and function more like apps and create kind of the foundation that became Web 2.0 and that was amazing. And then I worked a lot to try to get publishers to adopt that and create new ways to present content to people.”

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  12. “And I met and he saw it, he loved it. And one thing led to another. And ultimately, they decided to inspire the gospel. I was that.”

    2017-02-13 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Mike McCue, CEO, Flipboard · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  13. “There was. There was something called VRML, virtual reality modeling language. It was an open standard. It was about 20 years ahead of its time, maybe 30, maybe even 40 years ahead of its time, depending on how you think VR is going now. But it was very cool. And Mark Andreessen.”

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  14. “I came there, so Netscape acquired my company, my first startup called Paper Software. We were doing virtual reality and created the first plugin for Netscape Navigator. And it was a VR.”

    2017-02-13 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Mike McCue, CEO, Flipboard · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  15. “Exactly. And I think a lot of the basic ideas of how articles could look were very limited because you had 90s technology and low bandwidth connections and there was no such thing as a touchscreen. And so I thought, you know, kind of back to my days at Netscape when I was helping to try to convince a lot of these publishers to get on the web to begin with. Thought, wow, you know, it's like we're stuck in the 90s here. There's an opportunity to, you know, create a new platform for stories to look great on a mobile digital device.”

    2017-02-13 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Mike McCue, CEO, Flipboard · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  16. “Yeah, in some ways, you know, Flipboard grew from an observation that I had once I had left Microsoft. I was not thinking I was going to start another company. I was on a plane with my family getting a bunch of magazines to read on the plane. And I came across this one magazine. It was National Geographic and there was this amazing article in there. And I remember really enjoying the article, read it from front to back, and it was just this beautiful experience. And when I remember that I had seen that article online and I went to go look at it online on the web, and I remember it just being a shadow of itself. It was sort of spread across multiple pages. All the images were moved into a gallery. There was like toolbars and pop-ups and menus and so on. And I thought, wow, you know, it's too bad that these amazingly beautiful, incredible stories.”

    2017-02-13 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Mike McCue, CEO, Flipboard · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  17. “And so that was when it was founded. This was a long time ago before Facebook was really big and other Twitter and other sites. So the concept was that the internet was too big to understand and that people would create these reading.”

    2017-02-13 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Mike McCue, CEO, Flipboard · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  18. “Their work, their play themselves, their world. And it's an idea that I think needs to be modernized for a mobile social world. And so that's what we're trying to do with Flipboard is help people find and discover great stories that inspire them, that inform them, and help them be better at what they do and what they love.”

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  19. “The people with flipboard is. Flipboard was launched in 2010 to give people a magazine-like experience for getting great stories and products that are recommended by people who share a passion. And in many ways, trying to modernize the notion of a magazine. I really believe in the idea that the first principles of a magazine where you pull together great stories that are thoughtfully collected by editors, you have reviews, you have a feature well, you've got opinion pieces. And you have magazines that are focused around practically any passion you can think of Mountain biking, rock climbing, politics, foreign policy, whatever, and horses. And this is something that I think is very much a need for people when they're thinking about.”

    2017-02-13 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Mike McCue, CEO, Flipboard · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  20. “This is great to be here. No problem. So let's talk a little bit about what the news is actually around Flipboard. You guys announced today, explain to the people. Yeah, our fourth explain to the people what Flipboard is.”

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