[The following is a transcript of Khan Manka, Jr.’s keynote address at MIPCOM 2012. A disclaimer: Mr. Manka arrived late and was unable to have his speech entered into the TelePrompTer so his prepared remarks were not given.] MIPCOM 2012 – KHAN MANKA, JR. KEYNOTE ADDRESS…
Hello from the Seychelles! I was interrupted during my morning para-scuba excursion with the news that Ross Levinsohn is leaving Yahoo! Is Yahoo! really that stupid? Every month it’s a new high level executive on the market. Who needs headhunters when you have ex-Yahoo!…
Herb Allen’s Sun Valley Conference – 2012 Day 1 – Day 2 – Day 3 Over the past few days, I have received several emails saying “Come on, Khan, you goddamned prick – where is your fucking write-up of Day 3 of the Herb Allen suckfest?…
Herb Allen’s Sun Valley Conference – 2012 Day 1 – Day 2 – Day 3 ————————- “One pill makes you larger And one pill makes you small And the ones that mother gives you Don’t do anything at all Go ask Alice, when she’s ten feet…
Herb Allen’s Sun Valley Conference – 2012 Day 1 – Day 2 – Day 3 “The sun was warmer then.” This may be the last year I come here. If I was looking for a complete waste of time, I would have gone back to Comic-Con….
Day 1 – Disappearing Mogul Day 2 – The Acid Trip Day 3 – The Future ———————– Leaving (7/10/12): OK – I suppose I’m going to this thing. Herb called me acting like a kid before his 10th birthday party, all worried that no one was…
It seems that Silicon Valley and Wall Street are going ape shit over the fact that Scott Thompson didn’t really go to college or didn’t get a degree in whatever he said he got one in – or whatever. At Manka Bros., we could care…
Good morning. On March 7, 1958, my Uncle Simeon died. The next day, his body was flown back his birthplace (Yambol, Bulgaria) for burial. My asshole father, Harry, did not attend nor did he talk to Simeon during the last five years of his life….
Good afternoon. I was just made aware by one of my assistants that Jerry Yang (founder and Chief Yahoo! of Yahoo! – whatever the fuck that means) is leaving the company. I guess the Board of Directors and the Shareholders finally got their way and…
Over the weekend, I went to Sumner Redstone’s Holiday Party at Bob’s Big Boy in Burbank. It was a pretty sad event with only a few of the invited guests bothering to show up. Sumner kept staring at the front door and mumbled over and…