Lou Kerner is the founder and manager of The Social Internet Fund, which invests in the primary and secondary shares of private social media, mobile, big data, online video, and ad tech companies. He was previously Wall Street’s first social media analyst at Wedbush, where he wrote about Facebook, Twitter, and the hundreds of large (Google, Salesforce), scaling, and startup companies in the social media and mobile space.
Lou started hiscareer as a securities analyst following media companies at Merrill and Goldman Sachs. In 2000, he went to work for Bill Gross at Idealab as CEO of The .tv Corporation.
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Running Scared? Big Companies Increase Innovation Spending
VC money is funding aggressive newcomers like Uber and Airbnb, and aims to create the next Teslas, Facebooks and Googles. Insurgent startups seem to be targeting every industry and even inventing new ones. The startups are wielding the weapons of the Internet—cloud, mobile, social, and data analytics—and deftly taking advantage of connectivity and the flattened business environment it enables. As we enter the most disruptive period in business history, established companies with deep pockets—the ones you might call the "disruptees"—are waking up and determined to fight back. Many are refocusing their own efforts to innovate and stay relevant. The result is a stunning range of initiatives.
