Tony Haile, Digital Media Entrepreneur
Tony Haile is the CEO of Scroll, a New York-based company that is helping media outlets build a sustainable pay-to-read strategy. From 2009 to 2016 he worked for\xa0Chartbeat, a digital media analytics company. As a result, he thinks a lot about media, economic models\xa0and the open web. He talks about it with reporters, on panels and, obviously on podcasts such as this.\xa0 We have gotten to know over the years \u2014 me as a recovering media entrepreneur who thinks the end is near, always get into arguments with Tony, who oddly remains optimistic about the digital medias future. I am obviously right, and we get into this during this podcast. We talk about Tony\u2019s journey into technology, Facebook and big dumb media incumbents. My words, not his.