August Capital's David Hornik On Social Media

19:07 | Jennifer Jones | Feb 18th, 2007 6:05pm |

David Hornik is a general partner at August Capital. As early-stage investors in companies like Microsoft, August knows what makes great companies, and Hornik serves as its social media expert. He sits on six boards including Six Apart. Hornik was also the first VC to blog and to produce a podcast, so he knows all about the implementation of social media.

Transcript:

Host: Jennifer Jones - PodTech
Guest: David Hornik - August Capital

David Hornik – August Capital
The reason I should care is that this is the new television. I just am absolutely convinced this isn’t a fad, no. There will be changes in the landscape. I do not think that it is a case that because MySpace is the winner now that it will always be the winner.

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Hi, this is Jennifer Jones and today on MarketingVoices I have a gentleman who I adore whose name is David Hornik. He is the leading VC in social media. He ...