Interview with Mahbod Moghadam

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Genius describes itself as an annotation platform that now ranks 80th biggest site in the U.S. and claims rapid growth aiming to surpass Twitter, with brands like Missoni and Fila creating verified fashion annotations. Product specifics: brand annotation tools, a user hierarchy with editors/moderators/verified accounts, and a reputation metric awarded as IQ points for linked, high-quality annotations. Recent pivots include off-site annotations for news sites, a Poetry and Bible surge from a HarvardX course, and an expanding news annotation editor.

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1. 0:00The DLD fashion panel
2. 0:54Rapid growth and brand use
3. 2:10Seeking site leaders
4. 2:50Interconnected culture
5. 3:46Future of news annotation
6. 4:44IQ and user hierarchy

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