Nothing Ever Happens

“When the present catches up with the future.”

Marc Canter founded Macromind, which became Macromedia, where he invented the underlying technologies of the multimedia web of today..His new start-up is People Aggregator, a white-label opensource social network..

I met with Marc in Amsterdam over a real american 100% weed joint and a good cup of tea. Super-fast brain and funky on-the-edge visions on one side, and a warm, fatherly karma on the other (he IS a father of five).

Even the disliked by Marc would describe him as:

I meet a lot of interesting people in this business, but a few stand out more than others. Anyone who’s met Marc Canter knows what I’m talking about. Marc is a big, boisterous fellow, mostly good-natured, and very outspoken. The guy is sharp and passionate, and has a proven track record of getting things done in the Valley.. He’s also got an incredibly cute baby daughter, which is a bit unfair, because it makes it difficult for me to get mad at him.

Scoble has recently interviewed him at Gnomedex.
It’s a fantastic interview, where Marc talks about the starting days of Macromedia, how they ousted him, about Silicon Valley VC’s, open-standards, Activity Based Computing, digital lifestyle aggregation, the future future ideas and how he enjoys live and his family.

Watch the video interview with Marc.