We're not startup bros anymore (Ilan Zechory and Tom Lehman, co-founders, Genius)
Channels with Peter Kafka
Vox Media Podcast Network
4.4 • 585 Ratings
🗓️ 4 August 2016
⏱️ 34 minutes
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| 0:39.7 | Hello, genius.com dudes. Please introduce yourself. I'm Ilan. What's up? |
| 0:44.6 | Elon. What's your last name? Zaccori. Tom Lehman. Tom Lehman. L-E-H. M-A-N. Man spelled in the usual way. |
| 0:52.1 | Formerly known as rapgenius.com dudes, now genius.com dudes. Everyone knows who you are. It's an app also, so just genius. If for some reason people don't know what genius.com and the genius app dude, tell them. Genius is sort of like subtitles for what people are really saying. It's like pop-up video. So you might hear the lyrics of a song or the text of a |
| 1:11.2 | speech and wonder, what's actually going on? What's going on behind the lyrics? Behind the words. What went |
| 1:16.2 | into the creation of this? What are the people involved have to say about it? It's sort of like a |
| 1:21.3 | companion to experiencing culture and looking deeper. We always say look deeper. It's a double entendre. |
| 1:28.1 | You're annotating. |
| 1:29.6 | We are annotating, yes. |
| 1:30.8 | Who's doing the annotating? |
| 1:32.2 | Who's doing the annotating? |
| 1:33.5 | It's anyone. |
| 1:35.2 | One thing we like to say is that if you have a brain, you're a genius, |
| 1:39.4 | which is to say that there's no one genius out there who knows everything about music or politics or culture |
| 1:45.2 | generally, but together we know a lot. And, you know, everyone has that little piece of obsession |
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