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This guy owned MTV & Comedy Central (but fumbled Facebook)

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Synopsis

Former MTV/C4 executive recounts the early days of MTV (no-frontal-nudity era), how to spot culture-changing talent, programming-for-an-audience as a discipline, the Facebook acquisition that almost happened, MySpace, getting fired, and the end of monoculture and the rise of the creator economy.

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