How to pronounce “steven levy” in English

Steven Levy is the editor-in-chief of Medium.

Steven Levy: Oh, well thank you.

Steven Levy: That's a good photographer, there.

Steven Levy: I didn't take it that way.

Steven Levy: Right.

Steven Levy: Lemme talk, maybe I should talk about how I went into this book-- Ben Fried: Yeah.

Steven Levy: and got this.

Steven Levy: Well, there were a lot.

Steven Levy: Yeah.

Steven Levy: Well maybe folks can come up to the mic-- Ben Fried: Come up to the mic if you have a question.

Steven Levy: and maybe we could talk.

Steven Levy: I do have to tell you that it was, it was an interesting effect going on there.

Steven Levy: I'm not gonna give a clue.

Steven Levy: Which worked out really, really well to everyone's benefit there.

Steven Levy: I think just-- Ben Fried: You're in the job of sharing information, not hiding it, right?

Steven Levy: I think it wasn't one thing in particular, but just the idea that there was so much good stuff coming out from the interviews.

Steven Levy: And so, what they would say is, "Oh, so you know about Chrome."

Steven Levy: You say just referring, "I sold 443 and went to the GPA and then checked with the OC."

Steven Levy: Well, people talk about a couple things.

Steven Levy: Right.

Steven Levy: Yes.

Steven Levy: Yeah, yeah.

Steven Levy: Right.

Steven Levy: just core to them, I think do get channeled throughout the company.

Steven Levy: Are you a fast reader?

Steven Levy: Hmm.

Steven Levy: Well actually, it confirmed the story in a significant way.

Steven Levy: That's a great question.

Steven Levy: Well, consider that my immersion into Google began around June 2008 and comes

Steven Levy: Well I guess the classic comparison comes with Microsoft.

Steven Levy: What?

Steven Levy: Yeah.

Steven Levy: So I think that – I sort of lost the thread -- the differences between, but I think that is different.

Steven Levy: That's a good one.

Steven Levy: Yeah, yeah.

Steven Levy: Yeah.

Steven Levy: Yeah.

Steven Levy: Well, that's a good question.

Steven Levy: Well, that's a great question.

Steven Levy: Oh.

Steven Levy: Excellent.

Steven Levy: Yeah.

Steven Levy: Well, I mean any great company is a mix I think of luck and those sorts of skills.

Steven Levy: No, it was George Bell of Excite.

Steven Levy: They showed it to the head of Excite, who was not an engineer at that point.

Steven Levy: OK, so the way companies like Google and Microsoft, that dominate in a certain category.

Steven Levy: On a mobile device.

Steven Levy: Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Steven Levy: Thank you, Ben.