39 Quotes by Mike McCue

Personalized news aggregators are geared around connecting you to news sources; we're about connecting you to your friends. To people you're inspired by. To people that you're following on Facebook and Twitter.

As a publisher, you should decide what content is free and what you'd pay for. You have to get the packaging right, but people will pay for content.

As an entrepreneur, in many ways it's like looking into the crystal ball for what my company will hopefully go through as it starts to think about bigger challenges - scaling internationally, getting ready to go public, and all those different things.

Articles themselves are condensed to narrow columns of text across 5, 6, 7 pages, and ads that are really distracting for the reader, so it's not a pleasant experience to 'curl up' with a good website.

That's why we created Flipboard as a social magazine meant for an iPad, meant for a large touch-screen device. That idea of content presented beautifully, oriented around communities and special topics of interest, is really powerful.

The Web as we've known it for a long time has been pages linking and pointing to other pages.

You don't feel like you have to interact with a whole bunch of people when you get on Flipboard. It's not a source of social anxiety.

The iPad is creating a new format for reading content. One of the things that's happening as a result is the world of personalized news aggregators, which is a category that's been around for quite some time, is getting new life.

In high school, I started my first company, called M Cubed Software. We named it that because it was me and two other guys named Mike.