Today on episode 2 I talk to Mark Little co-founder and CEO of Kinzen, the news platform with ambitions to reinvent news the consumer news experience, what’s broken and how they plan to fix it. Mark is a seasoned operator and entrepreneur with successful million dollar exits and Managing Director experience in public companies like Twitter. In another life Mark was a career TV and news man as a war correspondent and prime time tv anchor for the state broadcaster.

On today’s episode we talk about:

Mark’s new venture Kinzen and his mission to redefine the news experience to put users in control of their news experiences.

The challenges in how we are consuming news today powered by ad-driven algorithms, the mis-alignment this creates in user reward and psychology along with the promise of blockchain and machine learning have for reinventing this experience

We also talk about the leadership lessons learned by Mark as MD of Twitter Europe, exiting his first startup to Rupert Murdoch's NewsCorp for 25 million and the steep learning curve in Mark’s first entrepreneurial leap in leaving the state broadcaster as prime time tv anchor to build and launch his first startup Storyful.

Since the recording of this episode Mark’s venture has emerged from stealth mode and you can learn more about them on Kinzen.com.