Ellenbogen began work on a six-month study of media, an industry he knew little about. The goal was to compress 20 years of history into four A4 pages. The work led him to two conclusions. First, cable networks were the only exceptional businesses in media. Second, the closed system that made them exceptional was ending. The broadband... See more

To encourage long-term thinking, Kelly is helping build a clock into a mountain in western Texas that will tick for 10,000 years. Brian Eno and Jeff Bezos are active collaborators. He’s a born-again Christian. He’s been married to his wife, Gia-Miin, for 38 years, and they have three children together. He was pivotal to a fringe-turned-mainstream

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