How to pronounce “brad” in English

We're not new.Brad Bird. There's like a thousand great Brad Bird stories.

OK. Well-chosen. Yes, I will scroll down.Brad B, class clown.I'm happy to share this later.

I'll bring it back.Brad? Dilletante.Yeah, so I guess my second-- I think, from a lot of your writing-- like I said, I read "Bucky Fucking Dent."

Absolutely. I think there's a lot more that we can do to maximize, especially once we start delving more into video.Brad always says, he never wants to tell people how to eat their food.Right. But I think, you know, a lot of times people will reference-- how do people make decisions on where they're going to eat for a weekend?

He and Brad also coauthored "Do More Faster: Techstars Lessons to Accelerate Your Startup." A bit of background on Brad.Brad is the co-founder of Techstars, an early stage investor and entrepreneur himself since 1987.Prior to co-founding the Foundry Group, he co-founded Mobius Venture Capital and Intensity Ventures.

Prior to co-founding the Foundry Group, he co-founded Mobius Venture Capital and Intensity Ventures.Brad is active on several boards.He is the chair of the National Center for Women and Information Technology, and he's on the boards of Path Forward, The Kauffman Fellows, and Defy

So I went to get a meeting with you, and your assistant said, no problem.Brad does these random days that he'll meet with literally anybody.So I guess I qualified for that.

So I fly up on Wednesday.Brad picks me up.It's like meeting a long-lost brother.

Nazi rocket scientists play a big part in this story.Brad Pitt fights zombies and saves the world with an Iridium phone In "World War Z."

He's a friend of a former Google manager of mine, and we connected.Brad has worked in the technology space, but has a background in the liberal arts space, so got roped in, became a coder, and hasbeen doing all sorts of great projects since then.

Brad, this is your kind of place-- Google, informal.Very informal. You know, I learned to work in my shorts.

So they may not be the right place, but they're the right country.Brad was really a super neat individual.

I'm used to doing commercials.Brad and I went to see-- well, actually it began in an off Broadway theater, forbidden Broadway.

I want to start by introducing Brad.Brad has been covering technology in Silicon Valley for over 14 years, for publications such as "Newsweek," "New York Times," and "Bloomberg Businessweek."Since you hit it off the ground, Brad, I was just wondering how did you come up with this idea?

I mean, you know, I imagine there were train wrecks in Europe when I was a kid.--Brad Paisley pranks Blake Shelton, pranks Carrie Underwood, pranks The Band Perry.

So he went over the invitees and ingredients again-- dandling lung, aorta, liver, femur, dipthong.Brad said nothing, but Nadia offered the room a few more inches of arm.I never have to call them, said Sarah.

Brad apparently told Oprah that Shiloh insists on being called John, he explained.

Brad! Does Shiloh even know what the color pink is?

Brad Bell: Oh, okay.

Brad Bell: Truly. Oh, you wait.

Brad Bell: Who uses the internet.

Brad Bell: So, that's what I do.

Brad Bell: It's, yeah, I mean, there's this perception that it's a smaller pond.

Brad Bell: It's the Seven Seas.

Brad Bell: I think wide is probably broader than broad.

Brad Bell: I mean I don't know for sure.

Brad Bell: It was because, you know when somebody loves you or something you do but they sort of insult you without realizing it?

Brad Bell: So, far vision, so when you think of NBC the far vision is LA to New York.

Brad Bell: Tokyo basically.

Brad Bell: And not just the original vision of, oh vision of telev- I didn't even do that on purpose.

Brad Bell: But the actual definition to this day is telecommunication medium.

Brad Bell: So a broadcast box where, you know, they're, they're telling you what the message is or telling you what the story is,

Brad Bell: For like 80 years.

Brad Bell: Exactly cause it's just recently been realized as such.

Brad Bell: Yes we want to match the production quality and surpass the creative content and quality of storytelling.

Brad Bell: Which is, sort of, I think been brought about even more in the era of niche and niche programming and everyone has their own little channel that appeals to them-

Brad Bell: Right because, you know, 30 years ago there weren't those tiny little markets so you could take a show that was specific like the "Golden Girls" which is four women

Brad Bell: Yeah but I, just for fun, the other day did a Twitter search on the "Golden Girls" and I mean 5 minutes, 10 minutes, 15 minutes, 20 minutes, 25 minutes,

Brad Bell: No exaggeration, not one person under, not one person over the age of 30, they were all under 30 and loved the Golden Girls, "Oh my gosh this is my favorite episode.

Brad Bell: Well, and those were massive hits.

Brad Bell: BET. Go to BET that's a great place for your all black show.

Brad Bell: Well exactly and so what they end up doing is making generic content as opposed to universal content when, when you really look at the history of what works most

Brad Bell: Well I think that there was a natural fragmentation with the internet and with, you know, different choices of things to watch but I think that it's being fed by

Brad Bell: Yeah and I mean we had someone approach us recently and ask, "Well how many views do you have?" And I'm like, Are you living three years ago?

Brad Bell: Or on the other end of the spectrum, trying to completely reinvent the wheel and, oh this new machine with this interface and it's all about how we, you know, put the content

Brad Bell: They die.

Brad Bell: That's an engaged audience.

Brad Bell: How can we kill our audience?

Brad Bell: But I think that the argument to that is that it's active and, you know, viewing is passive but I disagree.