Lessons from Building IMDB - World's Largest Community for Movie Fans with Alan Jay

Own Thy Audience

English - December 30, 2020 05:49 - 1 hour - 152 MB
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Alan Jay’s has been working on the “internet” for the last 30 years. Let that sink. From being an active community contributor in is University days, he went on to create the biggest movie fan community, IMDB on UseNet group. It went to the World Wide Web in 1993. In this conversation, Vivek and Alan chat about Alan’s journey of building IMDB, his experience of building community-driven businesses. Alan also talks about how he views Google, paywalls for content, mistakes publishers often make while crafting their reader revenue strategy.