Steve Outtrim Interview – “Silicon Valley’s Secret Weapon: The Shadow History of Burners Pt.2” – #248




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Summary: <br> Episode 248: Steve Outtrim joins us to discuss his recent research into Silicon Valley and Burning Man, titled: “Silicon Valley's Secret Weapon: The Shadow History of Burners Part 2” <br> Steve Outtrim is a technology entrepreneur from New Zealand, who now lives in San Francisco. He created the HotDog Web Editor, which was named as the 3rd most downloaded software on the Internet by WIRED in 1997. He IPO'd his company Sausage Software in Australia in 1996, making him at age 23 the youngest CEO of a public company - a record held by Rupert Murdoch for more than 40 years. He has invested in more than 50 early-stage technology companies and founded 4 that he exited via IPO or trade sale.<br> Steve is a Shadow Historian, and for the last 3 years has been writing a book series looking behind the scenes of the tech world. Steve created the blog Burners.Me in 2012 to discuss Burning Man and Burner culture. It is the largest independent Burner site, with more than 200,000 followers. He has been to 12 burns since 1998. <br> Steve brings a first-hand, unique perspective to Silicon Valley and its ties to the military and Burning Man.<br> Part 1: <a href="http://www.gnosticmedia.com/ShadowHistoryofBurners-pt1" target="_blank">http://www.gnosticmedia.com/ShadowHistoryofBurners-pt1</a><br> Citations: <br><br> <a href="https://burnersxxx.files.wordpress.com/2016/05/shadow-history-of-burners-part-2-psyop-and-the-presidio.pptx" target="_blank">https://burnersxxx.files.wordpress.com/2016/05/shadow-history-of-burners-part-2-psyop-and-the-presidio.pptx</a><br> Send Bitcoin donations for this episode to:<br><br> 12EQTDMzU5mxtEd8ZfyrHrxABZi3jtaCCo<br> Please make other forms of donations here:<br><br> <a href="http://www.gnosticmedia.com/donate/" target="_blank">http://www.gnosticmedia.com/donate/ </a><br> Contributions. This episode is brought to you by:<br> Steve<br><br> Casey<br><br> Oscar<br><br> Ryan<br><br> Annette<br><br> Scott<br><br> Hanan<br><br> Jonathan<br><br> Carlos<br><br> Barry<br><br> Alexandra<br><br> Katharina<br><br> Edvard<br><br> Phillip<br><br> Vinko<br><br> Daniel<br><br> Brian<br><br> Heath x2<br><br> Bill<br><br> Gary<br><br> Tresor<br><br> Joseph<br><br> Louis<br><br> Barry<br><br> Charles<br> BTC<br><br> Unknown<br> (NOTE: We were fighting false copyright claims by Douglas Duane Dietrich - a self-proclaimed "former agent" (or “librarian”) for the US Dept. of Defense, against our videos regarding the Burning Man culture. Dietrich is falsely claiming that these are actually his videos(!) and had Youtube remove them. Dietrich apparently worked under (or with) Lt. Col. Michael Aquino - discussed in this series. Please download the Vimeo versions and help make these videos go viral!)<br><br> UPDATE: Videos finally released after 3 weeks.<br> <br><br> <a href="http://www.dddietrich.com/" target="_blank">http://www.dddietrich.com/</a><br> Original Youtube link: <a href="https://youtu.be/WZ7gl1eRJuo" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/WZ7gl1eRJuo</a><br> <br> Watch on Vimeo:<br><br> <br> <a href="https://vimeo.com/165804628">Shadow History of Burners Part 2 PSYOP and the Presidio - Steve Outtrim on Gnostic Media Podcast 248</a> from <a href="https://vimeo.com/burnersdotme">Burners</a> on <a href="https://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>.<br> Audio Only:<br>