Kate founded {meta} Marketer in 1999, developed Toshiba America‘s first intranet, is the author of 4 books including her latest, “Tech Humanist” (which was featured at CES 2019), and was recently named to the 2020 Thinkers50 Radar, a global ranking of management thinkers.

Episode Timeline

6:00 And so it begins...

8:45 I got indoctrinated into MUDs

11:00 I remember getting tingles on the back of my neck!

14:05 What made you want to be a part of the Internet?

16:00 Toshiba recruited me to come to San Francisco

19:15 The next interesting pivot was Netflix... this '98

22:15 I was still drive by curiosity about everything!

25:00 "Relevance" was what we were going for

27:15 Relevance is a form of respect

29:00 Discretion is too... Balance how much we know about you

33:00 What got your juices going in those early days?

36:00 You could be a generalist

40:30 Impact of technology on people... The Future of Work

41:45 What have you retained from those early days?

45:25 I just became allergic to mangos!

46:30 You're going to love this...

49:30 I was at Magazines.com leading up customer experience...

52:20 So where are we now?