Ken McCarthy is an American activist, educator, entrepreneur and Internet commercialization pioneer.
For over 25 years, kenmccarthy.com is where the world’s smartest entrepreneurs go when they want to sort fact from fiction in online marketing, discover time-proven direct response strategies and tactics, and see beyond the curve to the next wave of innovation.
He is a Princeton graduate, has spent time working in the financial markets on Wall Street, a Direct Response Marketer, and one of the creators of the Commercialization of the Internet...he had a direct hand in helping to shape the internet that we have today.
In 2002 he started The System Club, to help aspiring entrepreneurs take their business ideas online. His no bs approach, honesty, simplicity, and pragmatism, made it an almost overnight success.
Almost every single person that is successful online, has a direct link with Ken, or is 1 degree of separation from him.
We met in 2018 in Chicago, at his System Seminar Reunion. One of the reasons I've started this podcast is a direct result of that weekend.
Part 1 conversations include:
- 4:43 Leave Room For The Magic
- 8:08 The Wall St. Years
- 9:40 The “Belly of the Beast” = 10 Financial MBA’s
- 11:25 “I can learn anything” with books
- 12:52 No linear path in the real world
- 13:50 We still have the capacity to learn like that
- 18:19 American vs Cuban cultures and Hollywood’s narrative
- 20:32 A sinister, corporate surveillance machine
- 21:43 Ken’s contribution to the Internet as we know it
- 22:45 The original purpose of the Internet
- 25:12 Henry Daiken & 3220 Sacramento Street
- 26:48 Geography Is Destiny – go to where the action is
- 28:01 The meeting that started it all
- 29:27 The Ultimate Metric of the Entire Internet
LINKS MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:
Henry Dakin & 3220 Sacramento Street
Think You're Too Old To Learn New Tricks?
The Amazing Fertility of The Older Mind
Jazz on the Tube - one of Ken's passion's.
Time Magazine (2014) - Ken McCarthy & the Click Through banner
When The Commercial Web Was Born -(Ken's historic talk - 1994)
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