In 2008 my poker friend Kevin Pollak was visiting the office when I showed him our studio. He said “I’ve always wanted to do a Charlie Rose-style talk show,” to which I said “go ahead.”
He asked what it would take to do a talk show and I replied “a guest?”
Less than two week later Kevin Pollak’s Chat Show was born, and shortly after that I started my own weekly show, This Week in Startups.
After a year and 100 combined shows, Kevin and I had lunch at Urth Cafe in Santa Monica and discussed what it would take to build a streaming network. On the short list we figured out we needed:
1. A great domain.
2. A great CEO.
3. A great team.
4. Some great Angel investors.
In two months we locked down all of those items with:
1. ThisWeekIn.com
2. Mark Jeffrey
3. A half dozen critical hires
4. Myself, Sky Dayton and Matt Coffin each putting up $100,000 each.
Six months later we have over 20 shows, a killer team and close to $1M in yearly revenue. Of course, it’s going to take a lot more than that to reach our goal of 50 weekly shows!
to apply for a job at ThisWeekIn.com email jobs AT thisweekin.com.
to sponsor a show email sales AT thisweekin.com.
to partner email CEO mark AT thisweekin.com.
