Dave Winer: Software Developer, Entrepreneur, and Writer

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4.6 • 667 Ratings

🗓️ 14 July 2021

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Dave Winer is considered to be the father of blogging and the RSS feed AKA Really Simple Syndication. He's been connecting the dots and closing parentheses in Silicon Valley since the beginning of the tech industry. He pioneered the development of weblogs, syndication (RSS), podcasting, outlining, and web content management software; former contributing editor at Wired Magazine, research fellow at Harvard Law School and NYU, entrepreneur, started two Silicon Valley tech companies. Winer has been given "credit for the invention of the podcasting model." Many of the things we do on the internet have Dave's fingerprints on it. Great conversation between David Winer and Guy Kawasaki on this week's Remarkable People Podcast! See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	In my years of entrepreneurship, I've seen countless startups. And here's the truth.
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0:32.9	are trusting Brex to help them win. Go to brex.com slash grow to learn more.
0:48.8	I'm Guy Kawasaki and this is remarkable people.
0:52.6	This episode's remarkable guest is Dave Weiner.
0:55.9	Dave is a programmer, entrepreneur, writer, and to sum, a gadfly.
1:01.0	The word gadfly, by the way, means, quote, an annoying person, especially one who provokes
1:06.9	others into action by criticism.
1:10.3	That's Dave, all right, and I mean that in a positive way.
1:15.0	When we first met, I was a software evangelist for the Macintosh division of Apple.
1:20.3	He was the CEO of a software company called Living Video Text.
1:24.1	My job was to convince people like him to create Macintosh versions of their products.
1:29.3	He delivered. The first version of his product was Think Tank. I loved how it enabled you to think, plan, and communicate in outline format.
1:38.3	It enabled people to take an outline and easily display it as a presentation with borders and bullet items.
1:46.4	In addition to making outlining a mainstream product, Dave made great contributions, if not
1:52.2	invented, technologies such as blogging, RSS, and podcasting.
1:58.3	As Dave explains, technology is not created in a discrete event, so it's difficult
2:03.3	to identify the exact inventor, but there is no doubt that Dave's work has touched the lives
2:09.4	of hundreds of millions of people. In recognition of his contributions, InfoWorld named him as one of the
2:16.2	top 10 technology innovators in 2002.
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