Jon Taplin's guest appearances

Jon Taplin

Startup Geometry Podcast

Keen On

Elon Musk

Donald Trump

Victor Davis Hanson

Craig Wright

Jon Levy

Gordon White

Gary Lachman

Kyla Schuller

Daniel Levin

Tiffany Shlain

Thomas Frank

Kurt Andersen

Yanis Varoufakis

Nicholson Baker

Jon Mooallem

OwlTail

Jonathan Taplin is Director Emeritus of the Annenberg Innovation Lab at the University of Southern California. He was a Professor at the USC Annenberg School from 2003-2016. Taplin's areas of specialization are in international communication management and the field of digital media entertainment. Taplin began his entertainment career in 1969 as Tour Manager for Bob Dylan and The Band. In 1973 he produced Martin Scorsese's first feature film, Mean Streets, which was selected for the Cannes Film Festival. Between 1974 and 1996, Taplin produced 26 hours of television documentaries (including The Prize and Cadillac Desert for PBS) and 12 feature films including The Last Waltz, Until The End of the World, Under Fire and To Die For. His films were nominated for Oscar and Golden Globe awards and chosen for The Cannes Film Festival five times.In 1984 Taplin acted as the investment advisor to the Bass Brothers in their successful attempt to save Walt Disney Studios from a corporate raid. This experience brought him to Merrill Lynch, where he served as vice president of media mergers and acquisitions. In this role, he helped re-engineer the media landscape on transactions such as the leveraged buyout of Viacom. Taplin was a founder of Intertainer and has served as its Chairman and CEO since June 1996. Intertainer was the pioneer video-on-demand company for both cable and broadband Internet markets. Taplin holds two patents for video on demand technologies. Professor Taplin has provided consulting services on Broadband technology to the President of Portugal and the Parliament of the Spanish state of Catalonia and the Government of Singapore.Mr. Taplin graduated from Princeton University. He is a member of the Academy Of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and sits on the International Advisory Board of the Singapore Media Authority and is a fellow at the Center for Public Diplomacy. Mr. Taplin was appointed by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger to the California Broadband Task Force in January of 2007. He was named one of the 50 most social media savvy professors in America by Online College and one of the 100 American Digerati by Deloitte’s Edge Institute. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jonathan Taplin is Director Emeritus of the <a href="http://www.annenberglab.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Annenberg Innovation Lab</a> at the University of Southern California. He was a Professor at the USC Annenberg School from 2003-2016. Taplin's areas of specialization are in international communication management and the field of digital media entertainment. Taplin began his entertainment career in 1969 as Tour Manager for Bob Dylan and The Band. In 1973 he produced Martin Scorsese's first feature film, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&amp;location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FMean-Streets-Special-Julie-Andleman%2Fdp%2FB000286RP2%3Fie%3DUTF8%26s%3Ddvd%26qid%3D1200167218%26sr%3D1-1&amp;tag=jotasbl-20&amp;linkCode=ur2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Mean Streets</a>, which was selected for the Cannes Film Festival. Between 1974 and 1996, Taplin produced 26 hours of television documentaries (including The Prize and Cadillac Desert for PBS) and 12 feature films including <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&amp;location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FLast-Waltz-Band%2Fdp%2FB00003CXB1%3Fie%3DUTF8%26s%3Ddvd%26qid%3D1200167365%26sr%3D1-1&amp;tag=jotasbl-20&amp;linkCode=ur2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Last Waltz</a>, Until The End of the World, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&amp;location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FUnder-Fire-Nick-Nolte%2Fdp%2FB00005LOKX%3Fie%3DUTF8%26s%3Ddvd%26qid%3D1200167475%26sr%3D1-1&amp;tag=jotasbl-20&amp;linkCode=ur2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Under Fire</a> and <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&amp;location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FDie-Nicole-Kidman%2Fdp%2F076781777X%3Fie%3DUTF8%26s%3Ddvd%26qid%3D1200167604%26sr%3D1-1&amp;tag=jotasbl-20&amp;linkCode=ur2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">To Die For</a>. His films were nominated for Oscar and Golden Globe awards and chosen for The Cannes Film Festival five times.In 1984 Taplin acted as the investment advisor to the Bass Brothers in their successful attempt to save Walt Disney Studios from a corporate raid. This experience brought him to Merrill Lynch, where he served as vice president of media mergers and acquisitions. In this role, he helped re-engineer the media landscape on transactions such as the leveraged buyout of Viacom. Taplin was a founder of Intertainer and has served as its Chairman and CEO since June 1996. <a href="http://www.intertainer.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Intertainer </a>was the pioneer video-on-demand company for both cable and broadband Internet markets. Taplin holds two patents for video on demand technologies. Professor Taplin has provided consulting services on Broadband technology to the President of Portugal and the Parliament of the Spanish state of Catalonia and the Government of Singapore.Mr. Taplin graduated from Princeton University. He is a member of the Academy Of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and sits on the International Advisory Board of the Singapore Media Authority and is a fellow at the Center for Public Diplomacy. Mr. Taplin was appointed by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger to the California Broadband Task Force in January of 2007. He was named one of the 50 most social media savvy professors in America by Online College and one of the 100 American Digerati by Deloitte’s Edge Institute. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://megaphone.fm/adchoices" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">megaphone.fm/adchoices</a>

Jon Taplin: Why America Is Afraid of the Future

Jonathan Taplin is Director Emeritus of the Annenberg Innovation Lab at the University of Southern California. he was a Professor at the USC Annenberg School from 2003-2016. Taplin’s areas of specialization are in international communication management and the field of digital media entertainment. Taplin began his entertainment career in 1969 as Tour Manager for Bob Dylan and The Band. In 1973 he produced Martin Scorsese’s first feature film, Mean Streets, which was selected for the Cannes Film Festival. Between 1974 and 1996, Taplin produced 26 hours of television documentaries (including The Prize and Cadillac Desert for PBS) and 12 feature films including The Last Waltz, Until The End of the World, Under Fire and To Die For. His films were nominated for Oscar and Golden Globe awards and chosen for The Cannes Film Festival five times. (via jontaplin.com) Today, Jon talks about his new book, Move Fast and Break Things: How Google, Facebook and Amazon Cornered Culture and Undermined Democracy. It tells the story of how the Internet took a wrong turn from its early days as a source for innovation and wealth for individual creators and entrepreneurs, becoming a highly centralized set of monopolies and oligopolies that suck $50 billion a year in income away from content creators. This has hollowed out whole industries, leaving both producers and consumers less well off both economically and artistically. We discuss some of the history of the Net that led to this point, and some of the possible remedies for the problems we face.

Jonathan Taplin is Director Emeritus of the <a href="http://www.annenberglab.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Annenberg Innovation Lab</a> at the University of Southern California. he was a Professor at the USC Annenberg School from 2003-2016. Taplin’s areas of specialization are in international communication management and the field of digital media entertainment. Taplin began his entertainment career in 1969 as Tour Manager for Bob Dylan and The Band. In 1973 he produced Martin Scorsese’s first feature film, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&amp;location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FMean-Streets-Special-Julie-Andleman%2Fdp%2FB000286RP2%3Fie%3DUTF8%26s%3Ddvd%26qid%3D1200167218%26sr%3D1-1&amp;tag=jotasbl-20&amp;linkCode=ur2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Mean Streets</a>, which was selected for the Cannes Film Festival. Between 1974 and 1996, Taplin produced 26 hours of television documentaries (including The Prize and Cadillac Desert for PBS) and 12 feature films including <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&amp;location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FLast-Waltz-Band%2Fdp%2FB00003CXB1%3Fie%3DUTF8%26s%3Ddvd%26qid%3D1200167365%26sr%3D1-1&amp;tag=jotasbl-20&amp;linkCode=ur2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Last Waltz</a>, Until The End of the World, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&amp;location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FUnder-Fire-Nick-Nolte%2Fdp%2FB00005LOKX%3Fie%3DUTF8%26s%3Ddvd%26qid%3D1200167475%26sr%3D1-1&amp;tag=jotasbl-20&amp;linkCode=ur2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Under Fire</a> and <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&amp;location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FDie-Nicole-Kidman%2Fdp%2F076781777X%3Fie%3DUTF8%26s%3Ddvd%26qid%3D1200167604%26sr%3D1-1&amp;tag=jotasbl-20&amp;linkCode=ur2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">To Die For</a>. His films were nominated for Oscar and Golden Globe awards and chosen for The Cannes Film Festival five times. (via <a href="http://www.jontaplin.com/about-2/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">jontaplin.com</a>) Today, Jon talks about his new book, Move Fast and Break Things: How Google, Facebook and Amazon Cornered Culture and Undermined Democracy. It tells the story of how the Internet took a wrong turn from its early days as a source for innovation and wealth for individual creators and entrepreneurs, becoming a highly centralized set of monopolies and oligopolies that suck $50 billion a year in income away from content creators. This has hollowed out whole industries, leaving both producers and consumers less well off both economically and artistically. We discuss some of the history of the Net that led to this point, and some of the possible remedies for the problems we face.

EP 034 Jon Taplin on Tech Monopolies and the Creative Economy