My dad died from cancer when I was 18, and my mom was in a really tough spot. So I wanted to try to help at home. I had started doing some technology consulting. Mike McCue More Quotes by Mike McCue More Quotes From Mike McCue Even in the face of massive competition, don't think about the competition. Literally don't think about them. Every time you're in a meeting and you're tempted to talk about a competitor, replace that thought with one about user feedback or surveys. Just think about the customer. Mike McCue business motivational thinking My parents were entrepreneurs. They ran a small ad agency in upstate New York. Mike McCue entrepreneur agency new-york Even in the face of massive competition, don't think about the competition. Just think about the customer. Mike McCue competition business thinking What drives me? Surrounding myself with amazing talent to craft a breakthrough product which can be used by millions of people to change the world. Mike McCue crafts people world A magazine is so much more beautiful than what's online. Mike McCue online magazines beautiful I.B.M. was my college education, effectively. They were very good at teaching you management. Mike McCue college management teaching The iPad is a superior consumption device for material on the Web. Mike McCue consumption devices ipads Ever since I first used a computer in the early '80s, I've thought of it as a fundamentally new medium for the dissemination of ideas which can transform people's lives and the society we live in. Mike McCue people ideas firsts Today, when you combine the web with the iPad, you have the most advanced medium for human thought and communication ever created. Mike McCue ipads communication today Our whole goal is to basically feature publishers' content and get people to click over to that content on the website. Mike McCue content over website people If you're Burberry or Gucci, you're not going to run a banner ad. To get brand ad dollars to move to digital, you need to create a beautiful experience. Mike McCue you digital experience beautiful I had been reading magazines a lot, and I love magazines, and so I was always asking myself why is it that these gorgeous articles just don't translate well to the web? Presentation was one aspect of it. Mike McCue myself always reading love That's why we created Flipboard as a social magazine meant for an iPad, meant for a large touch-screen device. That idea of content presented beautifully, oriented around communities and special topics of interest, is really powerful. Mike McCue content why powerful special Facebook is about seeing what your friend is doing. Twitter, you follow different people. Flipboard is about passions and interests and topics, and so it's the same social web that all of these products are letting you look at, but Flipboard is coming at it from a more topical point of view. Mike McCue view look you people You don't feel like you have to interact with a whole bunch of people when you get on Flipboard. It's not a source of social anxiety. Mike McCue feel you anxiety people In high school, I started my first company, called M Cubed Software. We named it that because it was me and two other guys named Mike. Mike McCue high me high-school school I was really excited by the idea that people were sharing information now and discovering information in a totally new way on the Internet via Twitter and Facebook, yet that experience was pretty clunk and just lots of bit.ly links. Mike McCue internet experience people way What the iPad does is it opens people's minds to a new way of doing things. They're actually thirsting for it. Mike McCue new doing people way Having run Tellme before, one of the things I learned about running a big network is it's one thing to have some people not be able to get on the way they want to get on, but as long as people who are on the network are having a good experience, you're totally cool. Mike McCue good cool you experience TechCrunch evolved on the Web as a new way of presenting the news on the Web. Mike McCue web new news way
