By Jesse Kirshbaum - CEO and Co-Founder of SoundCtrl
For the third time, I had the privilege of attending and covering the TechCrunch Disrupt Conference. (See 2011 and 2012′s recaps here and here).
This year’s conference was at Hamerstein Ballroom, and was very polished and well done. Although the speakers seemed more isolated and harder to connect with than in the past, the talks were great and got some excellent take aways from what I did attend.
On Tuesday, our own Dana Sedgwick made it down to see Troy Carter talk about evolving technologies and investment philosophies.
I missed Downloaded, the Napster documentary, but it sounded cool. It’s definitely on my hit list. I was also too hungover after the GIG-IT launch party to make it to Rap Genius. But I love those guys (Mahbod Moghadam, Tom Lehman, Ilan Zechory) and it sounds like they killed it.
Jonah Peretti's keynote
Jonah Peretti, CEO of Buzzfeed gave an enlightening talk about social content. The slide shown above summarizes his points.
Also got a chance to see Dennis Crowley, CEO of FourSquare, talk right after Jonah. The interviewer was tough on him, but he talked about his vision, haters, his Boston Marathon experience, and FourSquare’s revenue. We have no reason to suspect anything but big things from him and his team.
Guy Oseary and Ashton Kutcher
The highlight of the conference for me was seeing Michael Arrington chop it up with Guy Oseary and Ashton Kutcher. Ashton was his normal charming self. Well spoken in a casual way, he talked about how the two met and started A-GRade.
As it pertains to music, Guy is a big believer in the next frontier being “Streaming and Curation.” He’s betting that Spotify will ultimately be successful, and that labels will be able to come together and support each other.
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