Whos likely to be the star at the “media-mogul” fest this year in Sun Valley, Idaho?
Nearly every year, there is one Internet star who makes a splash at Allen & Co.’s media-mogul fest here in Sun Valley, Idaho. This year, it’s likely to be Evan Williams, the CEO of the wildly popular microblogging service Twitter, who announced his arrival at Sun Valley on Twitter, of course. “I’m in Idaho. Never been to Idaho. Hello Idaho!” Williams’ is making his first appearance here at the secretive Allen conference in Sun Valley. Twitter’s story — of a wildly popular service trying to manage its hyper-growth — is likely to be refreshing to the traditional media executives who are struggling with declining profits and businesses. As Gina Bianchini, CEO of the social-networking site Ning, said yesterday in a brief interview, “With what’s going on in social networking today, you would not know there’s a recession.” She said Ning will be cash-flow positive by the end of this year.
We’ve heard about these secret societies for billionaires for quite some time. In fact you sometimes even hear about the commissioner’s of the various major professional sports leagues being invited in past year’s. What you don’t often hear is a star athlete being invited to attend these think tank sessions with an industry’s leading minds and wallet’s. That’s all about to change however, as Lebron James of the Cleveland Cavaliers, according to the Los Angeles Times, has been invited to attend the Allen & Co. media-industry conference in Sun Valley, Idaho with only a couple hundred of the world’s biggest media moguls. “The first rule of fight club is you don’t talk about fight club”, just as invitees are discouraged from talking about their intentions of attending, any discussions at the meeting, or anything related to it. Here is what the LA Times had to say about James being invited: James, who already has ties to the New York investment bank and is busy building his own empire, will
Nearly every year, there is one Internet star who makes a splash at Allen & Co.’s media-mogul fest here in Sun Valley, Idaho. This year, it’s likely to be Evan Williams, the CEO of the wildly popular microblogging service Twitter, who announced his arrival at Sun Valley on Twitter, of course. “I’m in Idaho. Never been to Idaho. Hello Idaho!” Williams’ is making his first appearance here at the secretive Allen conference in Sun Valley. Twitter’s story — of a wildly popular service trying to manage its hyper-growth — is likely to be refreshing to the traditional media executives who are struggling with declining profits and businesses.
Nearly every year, there is one Internet star who makes a splash at Allen & Co.’s media-mogul fest here in Sun Valley, Idaho. This year, it’s likely to be Evan Williams, the CEO of the wildly popular microblogging service Twitter, who announced his arrival at Sun Valley on Twitter, of course. “I’m in Idaho. Never been to Idaho. Hello Idaho!” Williams’ is making his first appearance here at the secretive Allen conference in Sun Valley. Twitter’s story — of a wildly popular service trying to manage its hyper-growth — is likely to be refreshing to the traditional media executives who are struggling with declining profits and businesses. As Gina Bianchini, CEO of the social-networking site Ning, said yesterday in a brief interview, “With what’s going on in social networking today, you would not know there’s a recession.” She said Ning will be cash-flow positive by the end of this year. Sources:
We’ve heard about these secret societies for billionaires for quite some time. In fact you sometimes even hear about the commissioner’s of the various major professional sports leagues being invited in past year’s. What you don’t often hear is a star athlete being invited to attend these think tank sessions with an industry’s leading minds and wallet’s. That’s all about to change however, as Lebron James of the Cleveland Cavaliers, according to the Los Angeles Times, has been invited to attend the Allen & Co. media-industry conference in Sun Valley, Idaho with only a couple hundred of the world’s biggest media moguls. “The first rule of fight club is you don’t talk about fight club”, just as invitees are discouraged from talking about their intentions of attending, any discussions at the meeting, or anything related to it. Here is what the LA Times had to say about James being invited: James, who already has ties to the New York investment bank and is busy building his own empire, will
