Charlie Rose - Chris DeWolfe and Tom Anderson MySpace founders Tom Anderson and Chris DeWolfe got the Charlie Rose treatment on Tuesday night in a wide-ranging interview that lasted about a half hour. We’ve embedded the entire interview above and the Charlie Rose Show provided us with the full transcript below. We’ve bolded a few highlights throughout the interview.Rose starts with a few general questions, but he does get a few tidbits of new information. For instance, DeWolfe reveals that 18 million people a month get MySpace on their mobile phones. To put that into perspective, that is about the same size as the worldwide audience for the NYTimes.com (comScore). DeWolfe also claims:We have the biggest library of professional videos in the world.Rose even refers to a TechCrunch post to ask whether Facebook will one day surpass MySpace in the U.S. (it already has worldwide). DeWolfe says, “no.”And what does Anderson think of Facebook? He calls it an “address book.” He also comes to the defense of Yahoo, believe it or not:But both of us agree that Yahoo! is a very good business, and it’s also been maligned, I think unfairly when you look at it in comparison to Google and say, well they don’t — you know, they’re not doing this thing in search. Well, they’re doing a lot of other things.Sounds like someone’s in like with Yahoo.Transcript:The Charlie Rose Show Session OneGuests: Chris DeWolf Tom AndersonCharlie Rose: Tom Anderson and Chris DeWolfe are here. They are the cofounders of MySpace.com. With over 120 million members, it is the largest social network in the United States. In 2005, Rupert Murdoch recognized MySpace as a success and he bought it for $580 million. Four years later MySpace adds 300,000 new people a day and it is the fastest growing Web site in the world. I am pleased to have Tom Anderson and Chris DeWolfe here, not for the first — is this the first time?Male Speaker: This is the first time.Charlie Rose: Oh, my...
Charlie Rose - Chris DeWolfe and Tom Anderson
MySpace founders Tom Anderson and Chris DeWolfe got the Charlie Rose treatment on Tuesday night in a wide-ranging interview that lasted about a half hour. We’ve embedded the entire interview above and the Charlie Rose Show provided us with the full transcript below. We’ve bolded a few highlights throughout the interview.
Rose starts with a few general questions, but he does get a few tidbits of new information. For instance, DeWolfe reveals that 18 million people a month get MySpace on their mobile phones. To put that into perspective, that is about the same size as the worldwide audience for the NYTimes.com (comScore). DeWolfe also claims:
We have the biggest library of professional videos in the world.
Rose even refers to a TechCrunch post to ask whether Facebook will one day surpass MySpace in the U.S. (it already has worldwide). DeWolfe says, “no.”
And what does Anderson think of Facebook? He calls it an “address book.” He also comes to the defense of Yahoo, believe it or not:
But both of us agree that Yahoo! is a very good business, and it’s also been maligned, I think unfairly when you look at it in comparison to Google and say, well they don’t — you know, they’re not doing this thing in search. Well, they’re doing a lot of other things.
Sounds like someone’s in like with Yahoo.
Transcript:
The Charlie Rose Show Session One
Guests:
Chris DeWolf
Tom Anderson
Charlie Rose: Tom Anderson and Chris DeWolfe are here. They are the cofounders of MySpace.com. With over 120 million members, it is the largest social network in the United States. In 2005, Rupert Murdoch recognized MySpace as a success and he bought it for $580 million. Four years later MySpace adds 300,000 new people a day and it is the fastest growing Web site in the world. I am pleased to have Tom Anderson and Chris DeWolfe here, not for the first — is this the first time?
Male Speake