3 posts and columns on Scott Cook

Lytro, the Astonishing Camera Start-Up, Celebrates Its Splashy Debut (Video)

in Mobile on June 23, 2011 at 5:00 am PT

The company, whose light-field camera approach took the tech world by storm on Wednesday, celebrated its launch at a San Francisco art gallery. In a video interview with AllThingsD’s Ina Fried, the company’s founders and early investors talk about where they hope to take the technology in the coming months and years.
Lytro Launch Party

Meet Evan Reas of LAL and His Proximity-Based Social Graph for Colleges (Video)

in Social on May 2, 2011 at 6:20 pm PT

The start-up LikeALittle, or LAL, had fended off NetworkEffect’s reportorial advances for weeks. Funny, considering the site helps people flirt with one another.

Yahoo: Time to Negotiate With Microsoft?

in News on March 25, 2008 at 3:21 am PT

So, no surprise, according to multiple sources I talked to yesterday, the roadshow by top Yahoo execs–CEO and Co-Founder Jerry Yang, President Sue Decker and CFO Blake Jorgensen–to tout the new growth plan the company unveiled last week was not such a hit with shareholders. While the group met with polite audiences, most investors I talked to were unenthusiastic about the plan and dubious that Yahoo’s blue-sky hopes would come through. “I think we wanted to give Jerry a hearing, but mostly to save face,” said one investor, in a sentiment that was typical.