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Jason Interviewed by MBA Student David Kawata

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What's it like to run your startup for 10 years? Automattic founder Matt Mullenweg and Jason sat down during the D11 conference to talk about how social changed blogging, Yahoo's purchase of Tumblr, the WordPress business model and more.

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Joanne "The Gotham Gal" Wilson joins Jason for a trip down memory lane and discussion about her female founder powered investments.

Jason discusses innovative tech within the healthcare space with 3 exciting companies. Ted Maidenberg from The Social+Capitol Partnership joins the discussion to give his view as a VC.

Author and investor James Altucher (@jaltucher) and LittleBird CEO Marshall Kirkpatrick (@marshallk) joined @Jason and Kirin to talking about Apple's possible plans for a wrist device, what it's like to be around people wearing Google Glass (hint: Jason hated it) Facebook's women-hating pages debacle, @Yahoo's bid for @Hulu & more.

In his first one on one interview with @Jason, @adeoressi sits down to discuss the Founders Institute.

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Filmed at WeWork in San Francisco @jason talks with @jacobquist of @zillabyte, winner of best enterprise 2.0 at the #LAUNCH2013 Festival.