IVA Ventures LLC

21/07/2022

“The first capitalist city in the world … this is the unique thing that will be revolutionary,” said Prince Mohammed. “Without a doubt, at the end of the day NEOM will be floated in the markets. The first zone floated in the public markets. It’s as if you float the city of New York.”

WorldMiddle East NEOM, a new $500bn mega-city planned by Saudi Arabia By MEO - 7th November 2017 0 9945 Share on Facebook Tweet on Twitter tweet Advertisement Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman announced on the sidelines of the Future Investment Initiative conference arranged by Saudi Arabia’s...

06/11/2021

ANDREW YANG: News outlets like CNN and Fox News are only making America's problems worse. If we don't incentivize fair reporting, our country will be run on lies.
Incendiary, sensationalist media has eroded public trust in the news to historic lows.
Media companies steer their coverage to the extreme ends of issues to make more money.
Establishing a new Fairness Doctrine would go a long way towards eliminating partisan bias in news.
Andrew Yang is an entrepreneur, political leader, and Founder of the Forward Party.
Phil Shawe is the Co-Founder, President and CEO of TransPerfect.
This is an opinion column. The thoughts expressed are those of the author.
Our society trusts banks to fulfill their function of securely storing an individual's money so that they can retrieve it at their leisure. Hence the phrase "you can bank on it."

Trust in the news media is faltering. In recent years, polling has shown that public trust in major media organizations is underwater at 40%, a number that continues trending downward.

Unless we incentivize a change to the way we tell news, it appears that we are stuck with this unfortunate reality. As of now, we cannot bank on truth, but we can definitely take untruthfulness to the bank.

The divisive nature of 24-hour news has rotted our trust in each other. We should be able to have trust in the American news apparatus.

08/02/2021

Resilience:
This week on ‘The Stack’ Fernando Augusto Pacheco spoke with John Paton, chairman of ‘The Independent’ and ‘The Evening Standard’.
Great interview.

This week on ‘The Stack’ we speak with John Paton, chairman of ‘The Independent’ and ‘The Evening Standard’. Plus: ‘Justsmile’, a brand new fashion title…

28/09/2020

The Independent today announces the launch of Independent en Español (www.independentespanol.com), a new website created to serve the large and influential Hispanic audience in the United States.
John Paton, Chairman of Independent Digital News and Media Limited said “We are proud to be the first UK news brand to launch a Spanish-language website in the US market, allowing us to engage and connect with the Hispanic community on a greater scale. Since creating the US Hispanic engagement platform ImpreMedia, which reaches over 31 million users per month worldwide, I have developed a deep understanding of how to cater to the extensive Hispanic audience. As The Independent platform continues to grow globally, our ongoing commitment is to deliver premium and trusted content to our readers every day.”

The latest breaking news, comment and features from The Independent.

23/06/2020

Chairman and founding Partner of IVA Ventures, John Paton has been appointed as a non-executive director for the Home Office of the UK .

The non-executive director team come from the private sector with experience of managing large or complex organisations and projects.

Non-executive directors provide advice and bring an external perspective to the department. They also provide support, guidance and challenge on the progress and implementation of operational business plans, recruitment and succession planning.

John has extensive international board and leadership experience. He has been Chief Executive of media companies in 4 countries ranging from less than $20 million in annual revenues to more than $1.2 billion and from 100 employees to 10,000 employees in multiple jurisdictions across hundreds of locations. He is a globally recognised leader in the digital transformation of companies, with a focus on using data and technology to deliver meaningful change. He is currently the Chair of the Evening Standard and of the Independent as well as a member of the investment committee of Pembroke VCT plc.

As a director (of both public and private companies), Mr Paton has sat on numerous audit, risk, remuneration, investment, compliance and digital transformation committees. Through his firm IVA Ventures he is an investor and adviser in a number of digital start-ups in Silicon Valley, United Kingdom and Europe.

https://www.gov.uk/government/people/john-paton

19/03/2020

And he is not saying it lightly. He is a man of acting on DATA not hunches.
What are all those stupid people still discussing if they should close or not ?
Get everybody home NOW !!!

The Microsoft co-founder suggested on Reddit that people remain calm amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

12/03/2020

How The Independent became first large News Organization to shut down PRINT, go 100% DIGITAL and still make money?

Four years ago it seemed the death of The Independent’s print edition was the sad end to a brave but ultimately futile journalism story.

After running fourth in the UK quality newspaper market for a number of years it went digital-only, today the title is not only the most popular commercial digital news brand in the UK, it is also the second most profitable.

Chairman since September 2019 John Paton describes himself as a “happy warrior” has an illustrious career behind him as a media executive and investor, most notably as founder and chief executive of Digital First Media (the second biggest newspaper group in the USA at the time)

“Digital-first is my term. I was very intrigued by the guts that Evgeny Lebedev and Justin (then chairman Justin Byam Shaw) showed by going all-digital.

Paton believes that the commercial pot of gold for The Independent lies not with subscriptions but with what he calls an “A2K” strategy – “anonymous to known”.

“That’s to capture third party data through emails allowing you to enter e-com and affiliate marketing budgets that dwarf advertising budgets worldwide. You can still offer a parallel free subscription service that is largely around an ad-free environment versus just premium content.”

Four years ago it seemed the death of The Independent’s print edition was the sad end to a brave but ultimately futile journalism story. After running fourth in the UK quality newspaper market for a number of years it went digital-only with around 100 journalists losing their jobs. The 60 or so wh...