What we covered:

• The importance of building relationships with the right audience.
• How to monetize the right business the right way.
• His experience with journalism, and how it can help local businesses grow even further.
• Giving minimal supervision to the people you hire can sometimes be the key to growth.
• How publications and media are responsible for the growth of a company’s ecosystem.
• The decentralization of tech has paved the way for smaller hubs where people can grow.
• Why there are larger opportunities for the media to cover, connect and expose the smaller hubs for the entire world.
• How to optimize, cultivate, and monetize a business in the right way by tapping the right audience.
• How giving context and “connecting the dots” to their audience can give quality content as time goes on.
• How providing quality content written with good intentions can help potential clients differentiate between good and bad information.
• Why geographical locations are still relevant, even in today’s age where the Metaverse is slowly creeping towards us.

Tweetable Quotes:

“Good journalism and media can play a catalyzing effect in the growth of an individual company.”

“Oftentimes, the simple answers will be misleading or inefficient.”

“Being immersed into a different culture and getting a different viewpoint on the world is such a treasure.”

“You have to trust people to be able to differentiate between (good and bad information), but the difficulty in doing so is a big problem.”

“Until we’re all living in the Metaverse, there is a crucial role for hubs and communities, and that’s the premise we’re operating on.”

“Keeping the focus on the mission and being flexible about how you can accomplish that because you’re always going to be bounded by the possible and the available. But I think as long as you hold on to your key guiding principles, then I think that’s the key to success there.” 

“Being able to take some pointers about how to make everyone feel included and feel like everyone’s on the same page… is something that I’m trying to learn as much as I can.”

Links Mentioned:

Kurt’s Twitter

Kurt’s Instagram

Kurt’s LinkedIn

Sam N. Adams’ Linkedin

dot.LA

Sam’s E-mail

Techcrunch

Spencer Rascoff