Kevin Maney was our guest tonight on NewBiz Radio. Kevin Maney has been writing for USA Today for 20 Years and has been named one of the 10 most influential technology journalists by Adweek magazine.
Tonight we talked about him being a witness to some of the most incredible stories in the technology era, including a visit to an odd little start-up. That start-up was located by train tracks in an industrial space, when he arrived the door was propped open because the A/C was broken and there were buckets on the floor because there were holes in the leaking roof.
That business had a taped piece of paper on the door which said, YAHOO...
Kevin Maney in the last few years has begun writing these great songs that have been birthed due to his life in technology. A little bit of Comedy, Music and Capitalism. So far my favorites right now are Invented a New Router and I Love Capitalism.
His last book The Maverick and His Machine: Thomas Sr. and the Making of IBM, is a great portrait of man who was very human and incredibly brilliant.
You can learn a lot about being successful from reading a biography. This is a good place to start.
-David Kamatoy
