My Year at Yahoo in Under Three Minutes

I was a little scared to open the computer today. My crew-- which is sadly now just one person thanks to Yahoo's layoffs-- was working on a blooper reel of me that I wasn't allowed to see until it posted today.  As usual, Brad did an amazing job, especially considering how hard it is to find clips of me messing up that don't involve a string of expletives. What resulted is actually a pretty sweet highlight reel of my first year trying to learn to be on camera after a decade of print reporting-- something I long said I'd never do. A few things jump out at me watching this-- but the biggest is how much younger I look in the clips from a year ago! 2008 has aged me!

Perhaps it's the wide-eyed excitement that makes me look young. It wasn't just learning to report in a new medium, we were creating a new platform for financial video news. We all thought freeing the videos from a set broadcast schedule, making them embeddable and available on demand would change how people consume financial news, but TechTicker has outperformed even the most optimistic projections. On our peak days, we see several million streams, and the interview I did with Sue Decker just after Microsoft walked away from its offer did several million streams on its own. Other favorite interviews have included Richard Branson, Dean Kamen, and of course, Zach Nelson, the day Netsuite had finally gone public.

Who knows how long I'll do TechTicker or how long anyone will with the uncertainty around Yahoo, but I am really happy I have this clip to remember the frustrations and fun times of helping launch a new video show during such a pivotal year in my life. Enjoy!