{"id":778,"date":"2007-05-14T17:54:09","date_gmt":"2007-05-14T15:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.168.1.2\/en\/?p=778"},"modified":"2026-06-09T23:08:18","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T21:08:18","slug":"chris-shipley-interviews-me-at-innovate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/?p=778","title":{"rendered":"Chris Shipley interviews me at Innovate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.innovate-events.com\/2007\/producer\/producer.html\">Chris Shipley<\/a> interview me at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.innovate-events.com\/2007\/\">Innovate<\/a> and then the organization gave me the Entrepreneur of the Year Award. Thank you!<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\">The conversation covered a lot of ground, from the early days of building Fon to what makes a founder keep starting new things. Chris wanted to know which sectors I thought were producing the most interesting founders right now. I mentioned telecom infrastructure and connected hardware, but also pointed to areas I wouldn&#8217;t have expected a few years ago. Some of the sharpest product thinkers at the conference were coming out of <a href=\"https:\/\/gamingamerica.com\/online-casinos\/crypto\">crypto casinos<\/a>, mobile payments, and on-demand logistics. The speed at which those teams iterate on user experience is something the rest of the industry could learn from.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\">The award itself was a nice surprise. Events like Innovate are valuable less for the panels than for the hallway conversations that happen between them, and this year was no exception.<\/p>\n<p><center><object width=\"440\" height=\"330\"><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"h=330&amp;w=440&amp;autoHide=false&amp;autoPlay=false&amp;\" \/><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/vpod.tv\/rudydw\/196579\/flash\/nVideoPlayer\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed src=\"http:\/\/vpod.tv\/rudydw\/196579\/flash\/nVideoPlayer\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"440\" height=\"330\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" flashvars=\"h=330&amp;w=440&amp;autoHide=false&amp;autoPlay=false&amp;\" \/><\/object><\/center><\/p>\n<div id=\"mainphotoarea\"><\/div><div class=\"theme-buttons\"><div class=\"fb-like\" data-href=\"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/?p=778\" data-send=\"false\" data-layout=\"box_count\" data-width=\"71\" data-show-faces=\"false\" data-font=\"arial\" data-locale=\"en_US\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Shipley interview me at Innovate and then the organization gave me the Entrepreneur of the Year Award. Thank you! The conversation covered a lot of ground, from the early days of building Fon to what makes a founder keep starting new things. Chris wanted to know which sectors I thought were producing the most [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=778"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":202691,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778\/revisions\/202691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}