Roger Lynch

So last year, I told all of our teams, you need to plan your businesses around there being no search.

And if you don't have a plan for that, you may not have a business.

I think it was very effective.

I'm just always on the hunt.

When is enough enough, I guess, in terms of buying?

For years, if you ran a media company, you obsessed about Google because Google could send a fire hose of traffic your way.

But now things are changing fast.

That's Roger Lynch, the CEO of Condé Nast, the home of fabled magazines like The New Yorker and Vogue.

And if you want to hear how Lynch is thinking about Google and AI companies and who's going to replace his most famous editors, good news.

You can hear all of that on Channels with Peter Kafka.

That's out now everywhere.

Sure.

Well, yeah, I've been CEO of Conde Nast for seven years, but prior to that, I spent my whole career really in technology.

Thank you very much.

first job in media.

Well, I mean, it depends on how you define media.

Really, I spent my career at the intersection of technology and media.

So the first company that I ran

was a broadband business.

It was one of the first broadband businesses in Europe going back to 1999.