This time, we (Chase Van Etten & Daniel Keller) have a conversation with Are.na co-founder and CEO Charles Broskoski (@broskoski). We chat about our early lives online, our respective net.art pasts and his experience starting what was initially a somewhat niche site for ex-del.icio.us refugees and surf club members, that has over the past decade-plus become a veritable online institution and essential tool for research and thought, with a diehard cult following, a sustainable no-vc business model, and goals to persist into the next century.
Artwork: Felicien Myrbach-Rheinfeld, "Candidates for Admission to the Paris Salon", 1890s