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251 Her Epic Swag Collection Grows With Every Failed Tech Company (ft. Christina Warren)

251 Her Epic Swag Collection Grows With Every Failed Tech Company (ft. Christina Warren)

FromINFLUENCE


251 Her Epic Swag Collection Grows With Every Failed Tech Company (ft. Christina Warren)

FromINFLUENCE

ratings:
Length:
68 minutes
Released:
Apr 17, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

The Internet startup landscape is fraught with questionable business models, fickle users, and boatloads of misplaced venture capital. For every TikTok and Door Dash, there are thousands of spectacular failures. And most of them had the hubris to make (and sometimes sell) branded swag -- t-shirts, mugs, bags, and more.
That's where collector Christina Warren comes in. For years she's been hunting for authentic swag from tech and media companies that have gone bust: Quibbi, CNN+, Gowalla, Theranos, Enron and more.
Her collection has garnered international media attention and speaks to the hubris of companies who believe they're the next big thing ... until they're gone.
Alli and Lindsey chat with Christina about her days covering startups as a journalist, the extremely online landscape, the swag she's most proud of, and the "white whale" that continues to elude her collection.
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Released:
Apr 17, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (100)

If it exists, there's probably a huge Internet community obsessed with it. In their quest to follow the Web's deepest wormholes, comedians Alli Goldberg and Lindsey Ford have hilarious and humanizing conversations with furries, geocachers, video game archeologists, TikTok witches, professional comment trolls, VR sex workers, and much more. They also explore the social, legal, and ethical ramifications of modern social media with experts and journalists. You can't un-hear this!