This week. The end of a love story. My 11 year affair with AT&T is over. Then the Kylie Jenner rocket ship, and what it means for the future of commerce And the summer of the VC. We’ll explore deals that matter I’m Gene DeRose
and I’m Steven Rosenbaum – and this is Future Forward.

FuFWD Rundown:

• AT&T vs. DOJ

Why I Fired AT&T
https://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/321887/why-i-fired-att.html

Justice Department appeals Time Warner-AT&T merger approval
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/07/12/justice-department-will-appeal-time-warner-att-merger-approval-dow-j.html

• Kylie Jenner:

• How 20-Year-Old Kylie Jenner Built A $900 Million Fortune In Less Than 3 Years
• https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbesdigitalcovers/2018/07/11/how-20-year-old-kylie-jenner-built-a-900-million-fortune-in-less-than-3-years/

Venture Capital Deals Of Interest

– MediaMath, a New York-based operating system for marketers and ad agencies, raised $225 million from Searchlight Capital Partners. It previously raised over $100 million from Spring Lake Equity Partners, Akamai, Safeguard Scientifics, Catalyst Investors and Observatory Capital. http://axios.link/5SFQ

– Greenhouse, a New York-based recruiting platform, raised $50 million from Riverwood Capital. http://axios.link/ZL12

– Cosential, an Austin, Texas-based provider of CRM and proposal automation software for construction and architecture, raised $34 million in new funding from JMI Equity. www.cosential.com

– Lumiata, a healthcare-focused predictive analytics startup based in San Mateo, raised $11 million in funding. Khosla Ventures and BlueCross BlueShield Venture Partners co-led, and were joined by Sandbox Industries and Intel Capital. http://axios.link/FQlr

– Octi, a Los Angeles-based VR platform focused on human movements, raised $7.5 million in seed funding from backers like Shasta Ventures, I2BF Ventures, Bold Capital Partners, Day One Ventures, Human Ventures Live Nation and AB InBev. http://axios.link/IBXW

– Spring Health, a New York-based mental wellness platform for businesses and employees, raised $6 million in seed funding. ReThink Impact led, and was joined by Work-Bench, BBG Ventures, The Partnership Fund for NYC, RRE Ventures and the William K. Warren Foundation. http://axios.link/xFpm

Summer means it’s time for the Allen & Company Conference in Sun Valley. We didn’t get an invite – so we decided to host our own, virtually!

So, here’s the Future Forward Summer Retreat (Virtual), with a star-studded guest list, and some pretty provocative one on one conversations.

First, the guests:
Tim Armstrong – Oath
Mark Zuckerberg – Facebook
Tim Cook – Apple
Sundar Pichai / google
Satya Nadella / Microsoft
Reed Hastings / Netflix
Kevin York Systrom – Instagram
Shantanu Narayen, CEO Adobe
Randall Stephenson, CEO, AT&T
Meg Whitman – New TV
Jack Dorsey – Square and Twitter
Evan Spiegel – Snap
Jeff Bezos – Amazon
Elon Musk – Tesla
Ben Silberman – Pinterest
Hans Vestberg, CEO Verizon
Mark Thompson, CEO The NY Times
Rupert Murdoch, CEO Fox
Bob Iger, Disney
Now, the encounters:

– Tim Cook has coffee with Jack Dorsey
– Mark Zuckerberg has a drink with Mark Thompson
– Tim Armstrong plays tennis with Jeff Bezos
– Rupert Murdoch and Bob Iger talk about Disney and Fox.
– Hans Vestberg Randall Stephenson
– Elon Musk and Reed Hastings

It’s Summertime! Can the web help you land a spot on the beach? We’ll take a dip in the water. Then, what happened to Go90? The hundreds of millions down the drain, and you’ve never heard of it. And finally – can the siren song of Hollywood lure tech? You Betcha! I’m Gene DeRose –
And I’m Steve Rosenbaum – and this is Future Forward – let’s launch!

Vacation Homes:

Air B&B public in 2019
VRBO / Home Away

Tips for beach rentals through VRBO, Airbnb

Tips for beach rentals through VRBO, Airbnb

It’s Not Just Airbnb — HomeAway Starts Adding Hotels Too

It’s Not Just Airbnb — HomeAway Starts Adding Hotels Too

Marriott CEO explains why it took 10 years to enter vacation rentals dominated by Airbnb
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/06/04/marriott-ceo-arne-sorenson-on-entering-home-sharing-dominated-by-airbnb.html

side bar:

Google Calendar gets an ‘Out of Office’ mode

Google Calendar gets an ‘Out of Office’ mode

Go 90 – Gone.

Verizon is pulling the plug on go90

Verizon is shutting down go90

BIG TECH AND HOLLYWOOD – REALLY?

Big tech companies are looking at Hollywood as the next stage in their play for the cloud

Big tech companies are looking at Hollywood as the next stage in their play for the cloud

This week – what happened to FREE? Apps, plugins, music? Is Free Dead On The Web? We’ll investigate.Then – The Melania Jacket Incident – what it tells us about the state of social media and Calculated Chaos, and Instagram is now taking on YouTube – and released a worthy adversary. It’s a frothy week on Future Forward. I’m Gene DeRose and I’m Steven Rosenbaum – let’s Launch!

Future Forward rundown:

Is The Era Of Free Dead?
What the “Melania Jacket” image tells us about how Calculated Chaos works.
Instagram Video (IGTV) Game Changer?

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Is The Era Of Free Dead?

WILL PROGRESSIVE WEB APPS MEAN THE END OF THE APP STORE?

Will Progressive Web Apps Mean The End Of The App Store?  

Apple’s ‘Free App of the Week’ is gone in iOS 11
https://www.cultofmac.com/507481/apples-free-app-week-promo-gone-ios-11/

The End of Owning Music: How CDs and Downloads Died
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/owning-music-buying-vinyl-cds-downloads-streaming-w521504

What the “Melania Jacket” image tells us about how Calculated Chaos works.

Melania Trump’s ‘don’t care’ jacket isn’t the first time her wardrobe has become the story
http://www.latimes.com/fashion/la-ig-melania-trump-style-statements-20180622-story.html

Melania Trump Wore a Jacket Saying ‘I Really Don’t Care’ on Her Way to Texas Shelters

First Family fashion scandals
https://www.axios.com/first-family-fashion-scandals-obama-trump-melania-hillary-clinton-be760e65-f2b7-4f3c-8b67-65d52d93ebb6.html

Instagram Video (IGTV) Game Changer?

Welcome to IGTV

Welcome to IGTV

The Future is Vertical

The Future is Vertical

Who Can Post Videos On IGTV? These Instagram Users Can Get In On The Fun
https://www.elitedaily.com/p/who-can-post-videos-on-igtv-these-instagram-users-can-get-in-on-the-fun-9554826

Space. The Final Frontier. So why are so many Billionaires trying to get there?
This week – the Space Edition of Future Forward. We’ll look at some of our favorite explorer’s Musk, Bezos, Branson, and Allen. Who’s winning the space race? And whatever happened to NASA? Yup. We’ve privatized space. So, ready to blast off? Let’s Launch!

4 Billionaires Trying to Make Space Travel a Reality
https://www.thestreet.com/lifestyle/billionaires-making-space-travel-reality-14597945

MUSK:

Elon Musk and the Failure of Our Imagination in Space
https://www.newyorker.com/books/under-review/elon-musk-and-the-failure-of-our-imagination-in-space

This Startup Got $40 Million to Build a Space Catapult
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-06-14/this-startup-got-40-million-to-build-a-space-catapult

Oxford Space Systems raises $8.9 million for spacecraft component business
http://spacenews.com/oxford-space-systems-raises-8-9-million-for-spacecraft-component-business/

SpaceX simplified: A quick guide to Elon Musk’s space company
https://www.cnet.com/news/spacex-guide-to-elon-musk-space-company/

SpaceX is giving Wall Street a reason to bet on Tesla

SpaceX is giving Wall Street a reason to bet on Tesla

BEZOS:

Jeff Bezos teased plans to give away some of his $140 billion in wealth
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/06/14/amazon-jeff-bezos-teased-plans-to-give-away-some-of-his-140-billion.html

For Jeff Bezos, Space Is the Place
https://newrepublic.com/article/148641/jeff-bezos-space-place

Who’s First to Mars: Musk, Bezos or Boeing?
https://www.thestreet.com/technology/first-to-mars-musk-bezos-or-boeing–14609868

BRANSON:

Richard Branson Is Training to Beat Jeff Bezos Into Space. It Involves a Lot of Tennis
http://fortune.com/2018/05/28/richard-branson-jeff-bezos-commercial-space-travel-virgin-galactic-blue-origin/

Richard Branson says Virgin Galactic is ‘2 or 3’ flights away from taking people to space
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/05/29/richard-branson-virgin-galactic-is-2-or-3-flights-away-from-space.html

Paul ALLEN:

Billionaire Paul Allen’s Stratolaunch preps for first flight this summer
https://www.bizjournals.com/seattle/news/2018/05/17/billionaire-paul-allen-stratolaunch-first-flight.html

Why is Paul Allen building the world’s largest airplane? Perhaps to launch a space shuttle called ‘Black Ice.’

Why is Paul Allen building the world’s largest airplane? Perhaps to launch a space shuttle called ‘Black Ice.’

It would be the world’s largest airplane. It’s being built by a billionaire. And it’s getting ready to fly.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2018/04/16/it-would-be-the-worlds-largest-airplane-its-being-built-by-a-billionaire-and-its-getting-ready-to-fly/?utm_term=.c05e992cb138

WHAT ABOUT NASA?

NASA’s Opportunity rover is fighting for its life in a Martian dust storm
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2018/06/14/nasas-opportunity-rover-is-fighting-for-its-life-in-a-martian-dust-storm/?utm_term=.16236f6da1cd

Asteroids and Adversaries: Challenging What NASA Knows About Space Rocks

This week Apple comes out swinging on the impact of digital on children – and, what about new Apple Hardware? No fancy new Apple gear for the faithful – but why? Then, Personal Democracy Forum looks hopeful, while the Fake News Horror show is – well – Scary. And Culture Camp promises to solve urgent, vexing business problem. So, did it work? I’m Steven Rosenbaum and this is Future Forward. The Podcast for the Optimistic and the Paranoid. I’m Gene DeRose – let’s Launch!

This week

Rundown:

Loving and Hating:

Loving:
Hating:

Apple and the iKid Generation

Apple acknowledges the iKid generation at its developer conference with new parental controls
http://theconversation.com/apple-acknowledges-the-ikid-generation-at-its-developer-conference-with-new-parental-controls-97853

Apple WWDC 2018: what’s new? All the announcements from the keynote
https://www.techradar.com/news/apple-wwdc-2018-keynote

Why was there no new hardware at Apple’s WWDC 2018?
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.recode.net/platform/amp/2018/6/8/17440130/apple-wwdc-2018-hardware-software-arkit-siri-ios12-iphone-tim-cook-podcast

At Apple’s WWDC 2018, accessibility pervades all
https://www.google.com/amp/s/techcrunch.com/2018/06/07/at-apples-wwdc-2018-accessibility-pervades-all/amp/

What Thought Leaders Are Thinking:

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– The Fake News Horror Show’

https://www.fakenewshorrorshow.org/

– Culture Camp

Grant McCracken Culture Camp 2018

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This week – There’s nothing Meek about Mary’s Data. Growth hackers – beware! In fact, the Code Conference was a festival of battles – Spotify vs. Facebook, ATT vs. the FTC. Murdoch against, well – who knows? And, then – the internet. We can just blame the web. All that plus Rosanne and Twitter – Free Speech or Hate Speech. We’ve got all the play by play… this week on Future Forward.. So let’s launch!

1) The Code Conference. The Big Take Aways

Recode Daily: Sandberg, Spiegel, Murdoch: It’s Day 1 of the Code Conference
https://www.recode.net/2018/5/29/17405038/recode-daily-facebook-sandberg-snapchat-spiegel-fox-murdoch-conference

Recode Daily: Spotify, Uber, AT&T, Airbnb, Stitch Fix, Alibaba. Day 2 of the Code Conference was packed.
https://www.recode.net/2018/5/31/17412930/recode-daily-spotify-uber-att-airbnb-stitch-fix-alibaba-code-conference-interview-newsletter

Full video and transcript: AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson at Code 2018
https://www.recode.net/2018/5/30/17397164/att-randall-stephenson-time-warner-transcript-code-2018

Code 2018: When will Silicon Valley take responsibility for its products?
https://www.recode.net/2018/6/1/17415236/silicon-valley-responsibility-facebook-uber-spotify-kara-swisher-peter-kafka-casey-newton-podcast

Inside This Year’s Invite-Only Code Conference
https://www.bizbash.com/inside-this-years-invite-only-code-conference/los-angeles/story/35700/#.WxVellMvy3I

Full video and transcript: Spotify CEO Daniel Ek at Code 2018
https://www.recode.net/2018/5/31/17397188/full-transcript-spotify-daniel-ek-code-2018

Full video and transcript: Snap CEO Evan Spiegel at Code 2018
https://www.recode.net/2018/5/30/17397120/snap-ceo-evan-spiegel-transcript-code-2018

2) The Mary Meeker Deck (the power of projecting the future by looking at the past)

Mary Meeker’s Internet Trends Report: New Online Users Are Getting Harder to Find
http://fortune.com/2018/05/31/mary-meeker-internet-trends-report-smartphone-growth-internet/

20 takeaways from Meeker’s 294-slide Internet Trends report

Here’s Mary Meeker’s essential 2018 Internet Trends report

Full video and transcript: Kleiner Perkins’ Mary Meeker at Code 2018
https://www.recode.net/2018/5/30/17411618/full-video-transcript-kleiner-perkins-mary-meeker-trends-presentation-slide-deck-code-2018

3). What Rosanne teaches us about Twitter.

Why Roseanne Barr’s racist Twitter rant is not a free speech issue
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/roseanne-barr-racist-twitter-free-speech-violate-rights-a8378901.html

Roseanne Barr, Back on Twitter, Has More to Say

—> Extra Credit: Microsoft Buys Git Hub

This week US Web companies scramble as the EU kicks our ass with four little letters. G.D.P.R. So, what is it exactly? Then – you know, while no one was paying attending Netflix and Chill just got bigger than Comcast. Wow. And this week in Venture Capital. Crazy Cash for Pets – what could go wrong there? I’m Gene DeRose and I’m Steven Rosenbaum, and this is Future Forward… Let’s Launch!

What the Hell is GDPR?

The Birth Of GDPR: What Is It And What You Need To Know
https://www.forbes.com/sites/andrewrossow/2018/05/25/the-birth-of-gdpr-what-is-it-and-what-you-need-to-know/#36af62c155e5

Facebook, Google face first GDPR complaints over “forced consent”

Facebook, Google face first GDPR complaints over ‘forced consent’

GDPR jokes to help ease the pain

GDPR jokes to help ease the pain

It’s Time To Talk About Netflix

Netflix is now worth more than Comcast
https://www.recode.net/2018/5/23/17386696/netflix-reed-hastings-comcast-worth-more

For a moment, Netflix was worth more than Disney
http://money.cnn.com/2018/05/24/investing/netflix-disney-comcast-market-value/index.html

Is Netflix Uninvestable? Two Insiders Weigh In
https://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkobayashisolomon/2018/05/22/is-netflix-uninvestable-two-insiders-weigh-in/#185 3f60b2175

Netflix magic market number larger than big cable company’s magic market number

Netflix magic market number larger than big cable company’s magic market number

Dog Walking Services? WTF?

Rover Raises 155m.

Dog-sitting startup Rover just raised $155M

On-demand dog walking app Wag raises $300 million from SoftBank Vision Fund

On-demand dog walking app Wag raises $300 million from SoftBank Vision Fund

Dog-Walking App Wag, Which Is Kind of Like an Uber for Dogs, Reportedly Loses Another Good Boy
https://gizmodo.com/dog-walking-app-wag-which-is-kind-of-like-an-uber-for-1826029927

This week – China’s ZTE. A massive threat, or never mind, just kidding? Then, can Machines make the future of Journalism less full of Fake News? the NYC Media Lab says maybe it can. All that plus, I’m going to share the untold story of my ongoing feud with Trevor Noah. Yup, it’s about Free Speech, and so far, I’m taking a beating. That’s Future Forward for this week. I’m Gene DeRose and I’m Steven Rosenbaum, Let’s launch.