Home / Authors / Andrew Keen Biography

Andrew Keen

Andrew Keen Biography

Entrepreneur

Andrew Keen is an entrepreneur born in 1960, known for his innovation and leadership in the internet and media industries.

Andrew Keen is an entrepreneur born in 1960, known for his innovation and leadership in the internet and media industries.

Related Quotes

“The key relationships in the future will not be between people, but between machines and people.”

People Keys Machines

Author:Andrew Keen

“Free services like Wikipedia I don't think benefit anyone - they don't benefit the professional because they're not paid.”

Thinking Benefits Paid Wikipedia

Author:Andrew Keen

“Zuckerberg wants to take us back to the dorm room where we all know each other. I don't want to, I want to go to the city.”

Knows Want Rooms Cities Dorms Zuckerberg Dorm Rooms

Author:Andrew Keen

“We don't live in the old world. But I don't want everyone to know what I've done. We all know every kind of example we could throw out there. The world we see online is very spiteful, we all know about people who have had bad stories thrown at them. If we were more generous I might be more happy about the reputation economy.”

People Ifs Knows World Want Kind Done Stories Might Economy Example Reputation Generous Thrown Online Old World Spiteful

Author:Andrew Keen

“Being human in the digital world is about building a digital world for humans.”

World Humans Building Digital Being Human Digital World

Author:Andrew Keen

“For many of these people the social is just a mirror of themselves. I'm not against the social, but I want something genuinely social, not something that has been fetishized as social so that a group of people can feel better about themselves.”

People Want Feels Has Beens Social Groups Mirrors Feel Better Want Something

Author:Andrew Keen

“There's a lot of ideology about "free", that we can have free services, free content, it's one of the reasons why the music industry which I defend has been decimated.”

Has Beens Reason Industry Ideology Reason Why Music Industry

Author:Andrew Keen

“We don't have a choice about Facebook any more. The choice element is less obvious than it seems. Maybe the 1bn poor people and a few hundred thousand rich people can afford not to be on it.. the rest of us don't have any choice.”

People Seems Choices Poor Rich Thousand Elements Hundred Obvious Poor People Rich People

Author:Andrew Keen

“We have to move away from the entirely ad-supported business because the needs of it means that it has to keep driving into privacy, and that's not good for anyone because we all need to have something about us that is secret from some people.”

People Needs Mean Moving Secret Driving Privacy Ads

Author:Andrew Keen

“Millions and millions of exuberant monkeys are creating an endless digital forest of mediocrity.”

Millions Creating Endless Forests Digital Mediocrity Monkeys

Author:Andrew Keen

“The history of the Web so far says that we are highly motivated to come up with ways to make sense of a world richer and more interesting than the constrained resources of the traditional media let on.”

World Way Interesting Media Internet Resources Come Up Traditional Make Sense Motivated

Author:Andrew Keen

About the Author

Born: 1960
Known for: Entrepreneur
Quotes: 11

Related Topics

People Want World Digital Has Beens Knows Ads Being Human Benefits Building

Popular Topics

People Ifs Thinking Knows Men World Way Want Love Life Inspirational Needs Giving Feels Should Writing Trying Years Mind Firsts

Books & Sources

Similar Authors

T. Harv EkerBrowse related quotes
Todd WagnerBrowse related quotes
Gian FulgoniBrowse related quotes
Mark ZuckerbergBrowse related quotes
Madonna CicconeBrowse related quotes
Scott McDonaldBrowse related quotes
Robert GreeneBrowse related quotes
Chuck KlostermanBrowse related quotes
Jacque FrescoBrowse related quotes
Kristen StewartBrowse related quotes