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WaitWhat is a first-of-its-kind content incubator that invests in, develops and nurtures original media properties until they achieve great scale.

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Headquarters

New York, NY

Founders

June Cohen, Deron Triff

Categories

Media invention

Main Co-Investors

Cue Ball Capital, Victress Capital, Able Partners, Reid Hoffman, Jacki Zehner, Joi Ito

Former TED managers June Cohen and Deron Triff founded the company in New York in 2017 with the goal of rethinking the development and growth of media services. They can build on their experience as leaders of TED talks, which they have built into a globally successful media brand with over 1 billion viewers and listeners.

Waitwhat’s  podcast “Masters of Scale” features guests such as Mark Zuckerberg, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings, Daniel Ek (Spotify), Howard Schultz (Starbucks) and Phil Knight (Nike) and has quickly become one of the most renowned business media formats worldwide.