Uploaded May 2019 | Updated September 2026, 54 minutes ago
Geoff Cook (@geoffcook) is a serial entrepreneur and co-founder and CEO of The Meet Group (NASDAQ: MEET), a social dating and livestreaming company with a $400+ million market cap. He started his first company from a Harvard dorm and sold it for millions of dollars at age 24. He sold his second company for $100 million and is the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award Winner for the Philadelphia Region.On the side, Geoff's also a children’s book author and a mentor at Princeton University’s Keller Center and leads Podcoin, the podcast player that pays you for listening.
Full episode ---- https://disruptors.fm/115-how-to-save-social-media-and-livestreaming-from-itself-and-why-podcasting-is-the-future-geoff-cook
In today's episode we discuss:
- How Facebook and social media have screwed up and what they could have done to avoid the problem
- The future of dating, and online dating
- Why Geoff is worried about screentime and constant notifications clashing with our humanity
- How to build a $100M company with your brother and sister...
- The reason Geoff's excited about livestreaming, 5G and future of video
- Why podcasting may be the biggest growth platform of immediate future
- How to reimagine social media for a better future
- While existential AI is worth worrying about
- The brain drain going to advertising and attention economy
- What the commoditization of sex is doing to our species
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Geoff Cook (@geoffcook) is a serial entrepreneur and co-founder and CEO of The Meet Group (NASDAQ: MEET), a social dating and livestreaming company with a $400+ million market cap. He started his first company from a Harvard dorm and sold it for millions of dollars at age 24. He sold his second company for $100 million and is the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award Winner for the Philadelphia Region.On the side, Geoff's also a children’s book author and a mentor at Princeton University’s Keller Center and leads Podcoin, the podcast player that pays you for listening.
Full episode ---- https://disruptors.fm/115-how-to-save-social-media-and-livestreaming-from-itself-and-why-podcasting-is-the-future-geoff-cook
In today's episode we discuss:
- How Facebook and social media have screwed up and what they could have done to avoid the problem
- The future of dating, and online dating
- Why Geoff is worried about screentime and constant notifications clashing with our humanity
- How to build a $100M company with your brother and sister...
- The reason Geoff's excited about livestreaming, 5G and future of video
- Why podcasting may be the biggest growth platform of immediate future
- How to reimagine social media for a better future
- While existential AI is worth worrying about
- The brain drain going to advertising and attention economy
- What the commoditization of sex is doing to our species
VISIT THE DISRUPTORS FOR TONS MORE INTERVIEWS, TOPICS & GUIDES
https://disruptors.fm
SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST ON iTUNES
https://disruptors.fm/itunes
SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST ON ANDROID (Any Podcast App)
https://disruptors.fm/android
JOIN OUR NEWSLETTER + GET FREE AUDIOBOOK
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SUPPORT US WITH TAX-DEDUCTIBLE DONATION ON PATREON
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