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Melinda Marks

Melinda Marks

Oct 1, 2026

3:51
What does, what does your path, um, kind of let you see that maybe we wouldn't see otherwise from maybe just one of those vantage points?
4:00
Yeah.
4:00
Thank-- That's a great question, and thanks, thanks for asking it.
4:03
My career path has definitely not been straight.
4:06
I actually graduated from college in the tech boom, and I was interested in journalism and made a mistake move where I joined a company that had gotten acquired by Knight Ridder, thinking I was getting my foot in the door into journalism.
4:17
It was actually the Elon Musk, Kimbal Musk startup, Zip2 Media.
4:22
They'd gotten, had gotten acquired by Knight Ridder.
8:01
So in your experience, that we've just labeled you as broad, what happens to that data once it walks out the door?

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