TEDxSantaCruz: Roger McNamee - Disruption and Engagement

Roger McNamee is a co-founder of Elevation Partners, an investment partnership focused on the intersection of media and entertainment content and consumer technology. Roger performs 100 shows a year in the band Moonalice, where he plays bass and guitar. Moonalice pioneered the use of social media in music, inventing such applications as Twittercast concerts, Moonalice radio on Twitter, live Mooncast (video) concerts, the Couch Tour. Moonalice's single, "It's 4:20 Somewhere" has been downloaded more than 845,000 times.

Roger is the author of The New Normal and The Moonalice Legend: Posters and Words. Roger serves on board of directors of Wordnik and Move. In philanthropy, he serves on the boards of directors of National Geographic Ventures, the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame Museum, and the Rex Foundation. Roger holds a B.A. from Yale University and an M.B.A. from the Amos Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College.

This TEDxSantaCruz talk is part of over 2 dozen surrounding our theme of "Engage!" This inaugural TEDxSantaCruz event was held June 11, 2011 at the Cabrillo College Music Recital Hall in Aptos, CA (Santa Cruz County). http://www.tedxsantacruz.org/

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[WandererOfWorlds90]

15 minutes of a guy kissing Steve Jobs's ass. I thought ted talks were intellectually interesting. It seems quality has slipped a bit in some talks.

[BassDrivenMassacre]

This guy is retarded.

[GlobalAnanda]

Interesting that Apple shares just passed $500 PER SHARE OMG

[GlobalAnanda]

@apj3108 How can you be so sure?

[apj3108]

This guy must be feeling sorry now. When apple was busy slapping lame iOS on a tablet, Microsoft was working on Win 8 for ARM. iPad might be on the top right now, but the real long time champion is going to be MS.

[zzz43452]

TED really should not tag this as «Technology».

This fat man with midlife crisis is too hungry for money, to talk about technologies.

[desormais]

This is like totally raad man, pass the joint

[chanicthau]

@toninho2323 the social media feature. Your friends will recommend the good ones. And so on and so forth.

[AgenceElysium]

I think he likes Apple... does he get a salary? :p

I like his point though, about social media being just a sideshow, a feature.

[TheSpookyLife]

@cynicalnihilist hell yeah... he states that the public has chosen apple? thats crap... the public has been lead as sheep to apple. i am sure that if all these people knew the core issues things would be a lot different.

[rickman460]

Windows is dying.. public: WHOOHOO!!!

[Jeffmedd]

@rigpa44 most rational point on here- I cant understand how easily people become completely entrenched with furthering an everlasting and banal war of words around Apple/Google. It's all about listening deeper as you said to understand the next wave he is talking about which 86 people will clearly not be part of (except inevitably as a consumer when it has taken place)