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High profile hire at Austonia, KVUE brings in CNN/MSNBC alum, & Coronavirus impact on SXSW
High profile hire at Austonia, KVUE brings in CNN/MSNBC alum, & Coronavirus impact on SXSW
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Growing Austin's Media Scene
Growing Austin's Media Scene
FROM THE MEDIA ATX NEWSLETTER Last Friday Media ATX began a new phase. I threw a dinner for 15 or so of the best…
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Josh Rubin shared thisA legend has passed. I was raised on TNG, saw him perform Shakespear on stage, and was once fortunate enough to meet him and convince him to briefly captain my bus. Brilliant actor and kind man. RIP #patricksteward
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Josh Rubin posted thisTo all my @CNN friends eligible for the buyout…take it and run. The first offer is typically the best offer. There is life on the outside, and your skills are far more transferable than you realize. I know how scary this is, and am here to help. Ping me if you want/need to talk.
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Josh Rubin shared this"I came up using a hammer and nails, but now all I use is a nail gun." That was me, talking with Prasen Shelar, co-founder and CEO of Axari, about where the next generation of security leaders comes from. The juniors will never learn the hammer. Their goal was always to build the house. Prasen agreed: "You don't need to be in depth like understanding all these concepts to achieve the outcomes right now." What AI can't hand them yet is what he calls coordination intelligence, how an organization actually works. "That information, the coordination intelligence, is only in human head right now." From CEO Studio. #CEOStudio #Cybersecurity #AI
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Josh Rubin shared this"This is a cigarette for the mind." That was my line. Ryan Eisenberg, CEO of Children's Health Council, ran with it. He pointed to C. Everett Koop, the Surgeon General who campaigned on the dangers of smoking in the 80s. "It took 20, almost 30 years before we saw the gains of that." Ryan sees the last Surgeon General starting the same journey: teen mental health, then loneliness, then parents, then social media and phones. "We're fundamentally changing the way we see the world." From CEO Studio. #CEOStudio #MentalHealth #SocialMedia
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Josh Rubin shared thisThe CTO job right now comes with two audiences. "You have two audiences to please." Jeffrey Campbell, CTO at Sierra Interactive, manages up to a CEO and board who want everything faster, and down to engineers he's pushing onto AI tools while holding the line on code review. He sets tight deadlines for the team and buffers them on the way up. "There's a translation layer between both and neither gets the full story, unfortunately." I appreciated the candor. Full conversation: https://lnkd.in/gPWrzvdC #CTOStudio #EngineeringLeadership #AI
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Josh Rubin shared thisCharlie Lin didn't sugarcoat who runs AI. "They're kind of the kings and dictators of this world and we're just playing chess and trying to catch up with them." He means the model makers and the chipmakers. Charlie co-leads the AI Foundry at Gen Digital, and his problem is the one every company below the frontier shares. You don't control what happens next. You control your timing. "If you're building something, you're too early or too late to it." How is your team timing its AI bets? Full conversation on CTO Studio: https://lnkd.in/gs_-MbzW #CTOStudio #AI #Strategy
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Josh Rubin posted thisLast week Amazon opened my girlfriend’s garage...20 miles from where the delivery was actually being made. Some context: She doesn't have Amazon Prime, but I do, and sometimes get packages delivered to her house. I don’t have a smart garage at my house, but she does. Somewhere along the way, in the name of a frictionless experience, Amazon auto-enrolled me in their in-garage delivery program. So a package shows up at my house, and her garage, 20 miles away opens. It happened a few times over the course of a week. She had no idea why her garage was opening on its own, and neither did I until I dug through my email and found the enrollment notice. The fact that they buried the opt-out twelve clicks deep in the app means they knew this would be the fastest unsubscribe in history. Look, I get it. This is their answer to porch piracy. Can’t steal stuff if it's already in your garage. However by removing friction, they broke trust. Removing friction isn’t always the win we pretend it is. Sometimes the friction is the point. Hell, sometimes the friction is the fun bit. Under no circumstances do I want a stranger opening my girlfriend's garage.
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Josh Rubin posted thisSilicon Valley doesn’t understand why the rest of the country doesn't get it. But here's what the AI pilled forget: the most universal part of the human experience is that everything is actually personal. Nobody gets anything…until it happens to them. I didn't understand love until it hit me the first time. I didn't truly understand grief until my mother passed away. And I didn't understand AI, not really, until last week, when I connected Claude Code to DaVinci Resolve for the first time. My video editing workflow didn't get faster, it 100x'd. A month of work collapsed into just a few days. For the first time I felt the power, the wonder, and the possibilities...and a fair bit of existential dread, because what did this all mean? I'm 150-plus interviews into CTO Studio, talking to people who live and breathe this stuff. I thought I got it. I didn't. Not until it was personal. I had to have my own oh sh*t moment. If that's me, where's the other 98% of the country? I'm in Sunnyvale Friday and Saturday filming the next CTO Studio and CEO Studio sessions. Couple slots left. If you’re a CTO, VP of Engineering, CEO, or technical founder…and you're living this and want to talk, ping me in the comments.
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Josh Rubin posted thisI started my career in media as a video editor...and I was really really good. I could play Final Cut Pro 7 like a concert pianist. When I was in my editing flow state the world disappeared. It was an amazing feeling, and I produced a lot of great content...right up until Apple killed my instrument in 2017. Ever since then I've limped along using other video editing platforms but never came close to reaching the same level of technical proficiency. On the one hand I didn't need to...my career took me in a different direction, but I've always regretted not really knowing how to do the thing that I was once so good at. Last week I did 3 camera interviews of around 18 people. Looking at that terabyte of 4k footage that I knew would take my team several weeks to plough through forced me to try something new. So late on Saturday night I connected my newly downloaded Claude Cowork to DaVinci Resolve for the first time. Holy shit... A month of production work just got compressed into a week or less...and that's with me inventing a new work flow. It's game changing...and has actually made editing fun for me again. I'll report back soon.
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Josh Rubin liked thisJosh Rubin liked thisOscilar won the AI & Automation Award in Banking at The Money Awards this week, chosen by an independent panel of financial services experts. Thank you to the Money20/20 team and the judges, to our team, and to our customers, who trust us with their risk decisions every day. When we started Oscilar, what bothered me was how fragmented the risk stack had become. Most institutions run separate point solutions for fraud, AML, credit and onboarding, and none of them sees risk end to end. Most of that stack was also built before meaningful AI advancements. Meanwhile, the attackers coordinate. A fraud ring works across products, channels and institutions at once, while the defense is spread across tools that can't see each other. Putting AI agents on top of that fragmented context only makes the blind spots faster. So we went back to first principles. We built a real-time, 360-degree view of each customer's risk, then a suite of AI agents that share memory of that view and learn continuously from the risk team's feedback on their recommendations. That's the real-time, AI-native risk platform we envisioned when we started Oscilar, and I'm delighted for our team to get recognized for building it. We're at booth 15061 until noon today. Stop by and say hi! #Money2020
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Josh Rubin liked thisThis eleventh-hour shift in holiday hiring is exactly what we're seeing in our data. But the data is also telling us that warehouse worker is no longer a seasonal role. It's been our #1 requested shift for nine consecutive months. The demand is year-round, and businesses are staffing like it. Just-in-time staffing isn't a workaround anymore. It's how businesses manage the expected and prepare for the unexpected.Josh Rubin liked this📦 Warehouses are hiring workers later than usual for this year’s holiday shopping season. Logistics companies and retailers are relying on technology to make new hires faster, as well as using gig workers and flexible scheduling to bring on workers as needed. The tactics allow businesses to hire later in the season to avoid bringing on too many employees--or too few--in an uncertain retail economy. Companies over the past few years “have increased their ability to hire quickly with a lot of automation on the hiring side,” said Andrew Challenger chief revenue officer at Challenger, Gray & Christmas, Inc. “They’re able to push it back further into the season.” E-commerce fulfillment provider Paxon used to start staffing up around September to prepare for increased online sales. In the past few years, the company has instead brought on more temporary workers in late October or November, said Sabrina Wnorowski, the company’s chief human resources officer. “It’s about two weeks out that we will start hiring before the full volumes will hit,” Wnorowski said. “We find that week or two before is really the best sweet spot for being able to match that volume, getting the right available labor, but then also being able to get down to work when they come in the door.” Read more--including the hiring plans of UPS, United States Postal Service, GXO Logistics, Inc., DHL and Amazon--here: https://lnkd.in/eTFw28z7 ---- 👋 Hi, I'm Liz Young, and I report on supply chain and logistics for Dow Jones Risk Journal and The Wall Street Journal. Follow me here on LinkedIn to stay up to date on the latest industry news.
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Josh Rubin liked thisWe at Adyen are excited to contribute to Poppy!! The biggest brands in the world want control and flexibility in the way Agents interact with them. And Adyen is there to help.Josh Rubin liked thisOn Tuesday, Sierra announced Personal Agent Protocol with Meta, Genesys, Instinct, Rocket, Shopify, Stripe, and Walmart. The response has been incredible and today we’re publishing the first draft of the protocol at personalagentprotocol.org and announcing 35 new design partners. As personal agents take on more, our goal is simple: consumers have choice and control, and companies know when they’re dealing with an agent and who it represents. This draft is a starting point. We’d love for companies, developers, and personal agent builders to read it, give feedback, and help us build an open standard together.
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Josh Rubin liked thisJosh Rubin liked this“Arizona is very important to us. It has been important to us for a long time,” said Wells Fargo Chairman & CEO Charlie Scharf in a recent interview with the Phoenix Business Journal, discussing Wells Fargo’s significant local consumer and commercial banking presence. Read the full interview: https://lnkd.in/eYBgS5n4Wells Fargo CEO: Bank in growth mode and Arizona is a key market - Phoenix Business JournalWells Fargo CEO: Bank in growth mode and Arizona is a key market - Phoenix Business Journal
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Josh Rubin liked thisJosh Rubin liked thisIntroducing The Defense Tech Market Map Q4 2026 We used the Crustdata Company Search API to analyze every venture-backed defense and space startup founded since 2016. 203 made the map. 121 of them were founded in 2020 or later My almost two years at Palantir Technologies put me next to some incredible folks building for this industry. Since then I keep running into founders who are building something just as hard with a fraction of the team. A few teams that are worth watching: * Nema, AI agents for defense systems engineering. Luke Kulik * Aurelius Systems, lasers that take drones out of the sky. Michael LaFramboise + John Marmadukee * Chariot Defense, power for the battlefield. Adam Warmoth * Scout AI, autonomy for ground vehicles. Colby Adcock + Collin Otis * Hypersonica, hypersonic flight out of Germany. Philipp Kerth + Dr. Marc Ewenz * Frankenburg Technologies, low-cost missiles for drone defense from Estonia. Taavi Madiberk * Rune Technologies, AI logistics for the warfighter. David Tuttle + Peter Goldsborough * Northwood, ground stations for the satellite boom. Bridgit Mendler * Overland AI, off-road autonomy for the Army. Stephanie Bonk * Picogrid, the software layer tying sensors together. Zane Mountcastle Did we miss anyone? P.S. if you're interested in getting deeper insights via API or MCP (via Claude) into all of these companies and the industry, grab your API key here: http://Crustdata.com/demo
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Josh Rubin liked thispassion met purpose. the dots connected. and somehow, here we are 🥹🧡Josh Rubin liked thisThey say SF is all tech bros and B2B SaaS? Here we are 3 girls building in consumer gaming 👾 Excited to start our Y Combinator journey in fall!
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Josh Rubin liked thisJosh Rubin liked thisWe're hiring a Brokerage Operations Associate to join our Brokerage Ops team at Vouch! 🚀 📍 SF, NYC, or Chicago Take a look and apply here 👇 https://lnkd.in/eqXfYdMj Know someone who'd be a great fit? Tag them!Brokerage Operations Associate | Vouch, IncBrokerage Operations Associate | Vouch, Inc
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Josh Rubin liked thisJosh Rubin liked thisHow does a crypto exchange become a multi-asset, multi-product financial company? We spent 15 years building Kraken. Along the way, the infrastructure underneath it became useful for much more than trading. So we asked a bigger question: what else could we build on the same foundation? The answer is Payward 👇
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Speaking & Thought Leadership
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University of Texas at Austin, The Business of Media | “The State of For-Profit Journalism” (2021)
Capital Factory | “Intro to the Austin Media Scene” – Austin, TX (2017 – 2019)
SXSW Interactive | “The Future of Media” – Austin, TX (2018)
General Assembly | “How Can Startups Engage Journalists?” – Austin, TX (2018)
Media ATX, National Media Series | Various Media Related Topics – Austin, TX (2017 – 2018)
Honors & Awards
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Innovative Publisher of the Year Nomination - The Daily Dot
Commission Junction (CJ)
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Peabody Awards - CNN
Political Unit
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Emmy Nomination - CNN
Political Unit
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NABJ Awards
National Association of Black Journalists
2006 & 2007
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National Headliner Award
National Headliner Awards
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Radio Television Correspondents Association
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