Yo!

Technology.

What is it all about?

It would be nice as humans to actually publish things to the world that have residual value,

that don't disappear, and that could be potentially inspirational versus more kind of showing off,

look at me, look at me.

Yeah.

And that's how, you know, we generate connections between people, form these tribes, and ultimately find happiness.

Hello and welcome to Danny in the Valley, your weekly dispatch from behind the scenes and inside the minds of the top people in tech.

This week on the program, we have a treat for you, John Vlasopoulos.

John is the founder of Tribalist, which is a new company that is betting that amid the online

maelstrom, we will increasingly rely on lists, put together by people we trust for stuff we want or just

interested in. Hence the name, tribal list. Get it? No, if you don't quite buy that,

or you're just intrigued by the idea, or you're increasingly frustrated by the way that

social media has kind of become the

organizing principle of the web as we know it.

You should have a listen because John has been right out at the edge of several industries

that have been completely disrupted in recent years.

So he was in the music industry way back when Napster burst on the scene. He was right at the beginnings of the digitization of that industry.

He was also early in mobile when that became the dominant way in which we consume all content.

He was in reality TV.

And now he's launched Tribalist here in San Francisco.

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