


I first used a computer when I was 14 in my high-school computer lab (a TI 99/4A with 16K RAM) and it changed my life. I love building technology products that can enrich our everyday lives and make things simpler. Please tell us a little bit about yourself both personally and professionally. Hope you enjoy his answers as much as I did.ġ. The following are ten questions I asked Mike McCue, the CEO of Flipboard. To top this all off, Time Magazine just named Flipboard one of the top 50 inventions of 2010 (along with the iPad itself), so I now know it’s not just me. Having said that, I must emphasize that at no point did Mike brush me off, he always made it clear that as soon as he had a free second, he would answer my questions, and so he did. Long story short, I knew from the first time I tried Flipboard that I wanted to learn from Mike how great products are made and I tried to land this interview for months. actually, a great and steady entrepreneur and an unusually nice, nice guy.” Other industry giants like Robert Scoble were blown away by both Flipboard and Mike himself as well. Kara Swisher of All Things Digital was extremely impressed with Mike and described him to me in a tweet as having “hypnotic eyes. Not only is Mike clearly a creative genius but he manages to impress everyone who meets him. Mike McCue is the co founder and CEO of Flipboard. If you are not familiar with Flipboard, chances are you do not own an iPad, but even so, it is worth reading about the app here. Its design and concept have made it one of the most viral apps ever, and its simplicity and intuitive nature makes it a pleasure to use. It says a lot about an app when its design makes it the app you use to show off your device to your friends and its functionality makes it the most used app on your device. There are hundreds of thousands of mobile apps across all the various platforms, but there is only one Flipboard.
