The father of Wired magazine - and the Internet: Kevin Kelly

Entrepreneurs on Fire

John Lee Dumas

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🗓️ 13 September 2016

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Kevin is Senior Maverick at Wired magazine. He co-founded Wired in 1993 and served as its Executive Editor for its first seven years. He is also founding editor and co-publisher of the popular Cool Tools website, which has been reviewing tools daily since 2003. He co-founded the ongoing Hackers’ Conference and was involved with the launch of the WELL, a pioneering online service started in 1985.

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0:00.0	Light that spark fire nation J L D here and welcomed episode 1423 of EO Fire. Right
0:10.4	shout out with today's most successful entrepreneurs seven days a week. And if
0:15.0	you've ever considered hosting your own podcast, I have a free podcasting
0:18.6	course that guide you every step of the way from launch to monetization. Check
0:22.6	it out at free podcast course dot com. Now let's chat with today's featured
0:28.9	guest, Mr Kevin Kelly. Kevin, are you prepared to ignite? Yeah. Kevin is
0:37.2	senior Maverick at Wired magazine. He co-founded Wired in 93 and services
0:42.4	executive editor for his first seven years. He's also founding editor and
0:46.7	co-publisher of the popular cool tools website, which has been reviewing tools
0:51.7	daily since 2003. He co-founded the ongoing hackers conference, which was
0:57.4	involved with the launch of the well, a pioneering online service started back in
1:02.3	1985. So Kevin, take a minute fill in some gaps from that in-chone. Give us just a
1:07.6	little glimpse of your personal life. Hey, I'm a college dropout and I spent most
1:13.8	my formative 20s in Asia as a photographer going between Turkey and Japan. So
1:21.6	like definitely give you a life experience that has served you well, my friends.
1:26.5	And we really focus on EO fire about the journey of our guests. And so of course
1:32.8	that's you today. But before we kind of go back there, we like to start with
1:37.2	today and specifically revenue because revenue is what makes the entrepreneur go
1:42.9	around. So how do you generate revenue in your streams of businesses today?
1:47.8	Well, I've had a blog website since 19 years, excuse me, 2003 that's made money
1:53.8	from the very first year on. And we, it's cool tools and we recommend one cool
2:01.0	tool every weekday. Have for 13 years now. And the revenue comes from Amazon
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