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188: Startup Mistakes & Building a List Empire with Clark Benson
188: Startup Mistakes & Building a List Empire with Clark Benson
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Length:
38 minutes
Released:
Aug 31, 2016
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
In the era of the millennial, Ranker.com has created a way to have the public’s voice heard in a fun interactive way that allows the public to create and vote on topics including “The Druggiest Rockstar of All Time,” “Best All Time Movie,” “Best College Football Coach,” and 11,000 more fun polls.
They have 35-million unique visitors per month, and average 11-million votes a month on topics ranging from entertainment, pop culture, politics, gaming and more. In doing so, they have brought Silicon Valley to their Los Angeles headquarters while establishing themselves as the go-to company for crowd sourced data and rankings that speak to pop culture while giving a voice to today’s generation using up-to-date methods…the internet.
Today, I have with me Clark Benson, the CEO of Ranker and we discuss his startup success and failures and how he is essentially using social media and crowdsourced data to tell a story and express public opinion in a way that is not “all about me” as other platforms have become. ...
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They have 35-million unique visitors per month, and average 11-million votes a month on topics ranging from entertainment, pop culture, politics, gaming and more. In doing so, they have brought Silicon Valley to their Los Angeles headquarters while establishing themselves as the go-to company for crowd sourced data and rankings that speak to pop culture while giving a voice to today’s generation using up-to-date methods…the internet.
Today, I have with me Clark Benson, the CEO of Ranker and we discuss his startup success and failures and how he is essentially using social media and crowdsourced data to tell a story and express public opinion in a way that is not “all about me” as other platforms have become. ...
See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Released:
Aug 31, 2016
Format:
Podcast episode
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