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As a keynote speaker, he knows how to command a stage where he can deliver a powerful presentation that will captivate your audience.
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John Battelle is a highly-sought keynote speaker and expert covering such topics as future trends, innovation, digital transformation, and disruption. He is a best-selling author, consultant, media pundit, and thought-leader who has spoken at many conferences around the world where he gives leaders the skills they need to deal with fast, big changes in society, the workplace, and schools.
John Battelle is hired to speak at events and conferences where he can give expertise on important global business affairs. He has started or helped start a lot of media, technology, online, and event companies. In addition to being a Senior Research Scholar and Adjunct Professor at Columbia University/SIPA, he is also the co-founder and CEO of Recount Media. This political media platform is still in development. Battelle also runs the media platform NewCo and the “inside out” conference format. He is also the chairman of sovrn Holdings, which is an advertising and data platform for publishers that is proud to serve more than 100,000 websites.
In 2005, Mr. Battelle started a company called Federated Media Publishing, which sells media for the internet. He was the leader of the company and its CEO. company until it was sold in early 2014. He is also a director for the company LiveRamp, which is listed on the NYSE. He is (kind of) an active investor. He has invested in over 30 media and technology startups as an angel investor. Battelle helped to start the Web 2 Summit in 2004 and was in charge of it until 2011.
She also runs the media, technology, and culture-focused blog Search blog. Between 2001 and 2004, he worked at University of California, Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism as the Bloomberg chair in Business Journalism. He started Standard Media International (SMI), where he was chairman and CEO from 1997 to 2001, and The Industry Standard and TheStandard.com were both published. He was the editor-in-chief of both Wired magazine and Wired Ventures when they first started.
Mr. Battelle was one of the people who started the Online Publishers Association and used to be on the IAB board. He wrote the book The Search: How Google and Its Rivals Rewrote the Rules of Business and Transformed Our Culture, published by Penguin/Portfolio and became a best-seller worldwide.
It was put into more than twenty-five different languages. The awards include “Global Leader for Tomorrow” and “Young Global Leader” from the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland; “Entrepreneur of the Year” finalist from Ernst & Young in 2000; “Innovator – One of Ten Best Marketers in the Industry” from Advertising Age; and “One of the Most Important People on the Web” from PCWorld (hey, that was a long time ago).
Mr. Battelle got a Bachelor of Arts in anthropology and a Master of Arts in journalism from the University of California, Berkeley. Bears, go away!
John Battelle has worked as a journalist, teacher, and businessman. He started many well-known business and technology magazines, like Wired and Industry Standard. He has been praised for his business ideas because they have been successful, and in 2005 he decided to focus on analyzing search engines, especially Google.
Battelle’s research led to the book The Search: The Inside Story of How Google and Its Rivals Changed Everything. This book looks at the history, inner workings, and possible future uses of search engines, as well as the huge initial public offering of Google, a Wall Street landmark. As part of his research, the author talked to 350 people in the high-tech business. These people included Larry Page and Sergey Brin, the founders of Google, as well as the founders and leaders of many of Google’s competitors. In The Search, Battelle looks at the differences between the first search engines and Google.
He also looks at Google’s new ways of doing things and its meteoric rise since it started. Google is so well-known and popular that the word “google” has become a verb that means to look for information about something.
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