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Channels with Peter Kafka

Chet Kanojia, Starry CEO

Channels with Peter Kafka

Vox Media Podcast Network

Technology, Tv & Film, Business News, News

4.4585 Ratings

🗓️ 4 February 2016

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

In an episode that originally aired on Recode Decode, Starry CEO Chet Kanojia sits down with Peter Kafka to talk about his latest disruptive startup, which aims to attack broadband monopolies and duopolies by delivering high-speed consumer Internet over the air. He also discusses what the Supreme Court didn't understand about his last startup, Aereo. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hi, I'm Kara Swisher, executive editor of Recode, and you're listening to Recode Media with Peter Kafka, powered by digital media.

0:07.9

Before we launch Recode Media as its own podcast, you may have heard Peter over at my podcast, Recode Decode.

0:14.3

Here's one of the fantastic interviews he did for Decode. Let's listen.

0:19.7

Recode Radio presents Recode Decode, hosted by Kara Swisher, powered by digital media.

0:26.4

I'm Kara Swisher, executive editor of Recode, and you're listening to Recode Decode, a podcast about

0:31.5

tech and media's key players, big ideas, and how they're changing the world we live in.

0:36.0

This is our special weekly segment with

0:37.7

host Peter Kafka, Recode Senior Editor and Producer of the Code Media Conference, joining Peter each

0:43.4

week are some of his favorite movers and shakers in the media world. This week, Peter talked

0:47.7

to Chet Kanojia, the former founder and CEO of Aereo, a web TV startup that shut down after losing

0:53.9

a legal battle that made it to the Supreme Court. Now Kanojia is back with a new company called Project Decibel. That sounds noisy. Here's Peter. Thanks, Kara. I'm here with Chek Knoja, who many of you know is the guy behind Ario, and he's now the guy behind a new company called Stari. He just introduced it a couple hours ago. I want to thank him for coming up here. Chad, we can talk about Aero, and we will. But why don't you explain what Stari is, first of all? So Stari is a pretty big effort that spans. We kind of looked at the market and said, you know, there's an interesting opportunity in providing an end-to-end experience for the consumer for both broadband

1:29.3

access and in-home how you experience that access that you get. I'm going to stop you there,

1:34.9

because the main thing you're doing, right, is you want to create a new broadband service

1:39.2

that you're going to sell that's going to compete with the existing, basically, monopoly and

1:43.4

duopoly of cable and

1:44.8

telco providers. And we believe that sort of the internet of things in the entire experience

1:49.9

and stitching all that together is a really interesting opportunity. And I think we'll both kind

1:53.6

of go together. You know, we would get calls from people that said, hey, you know, my video is

1:58.7

buffering or this or that. And we would say, well, his speed seems to be okay.

2:03.0

And we realized that in-home propagation was a real problem for most of these people.

2:07.1

And that's kind of where the...

2:07.8

In-home propagation is.

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