#333 WP-Tonic Wednesday Show With Special Guest Peter Rojas

We Discuss With Peter Investing In The Knowledge Education Economy of 21st Century Peter worked at Red Herring magazine from June 1999 to May 2001, first as Associate Editor then as a writer. He was co-founder and Editorial Director of Gizmodo from July 2002 until March 2004, leaving to co-found Engadget. Two months later he also founded the video game blog Joystiq. Both were part of Weblogs Inc., a blog network that was purchased by AOL in 2005. Along with Josh Deutsch of Downtown Records, Peter launched the online record label RCRD LBL in 2007. In July 2008 Peter left Engadget to start the consumer electronics social networking site GDGT.The site premiered in 2009 and was co-founded with Ryan Block, Peter’ successor as Engadget editor-in-chief. In February 2013 GDGT was purchased by AOL. As of July 2018, he is a partner at Betaworks Ventures.