Business Executive Index to Mr. Media Interviews

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BUSINESS EXECUTIVE INTERVIEWS

Guy Kawasaki
author, “Reality Check,” “The Mac Way”


Barry Libert
author, “Barack, Inc.”; co-founder, mzinga.com


Stuart Skorman
founder & CEO, Clerkdogs.com, Reel.com, Empire Video


Rick Calvert, Tim Bourquin
co-founders, BlogWorld & New Media Expo


Steve Muth and Ben Papell
co-founders, Voicethread.com


Ed Droste
Hooters Restaurants


Bill Romanowski
NFL football legend, CEO, Nutrition 53


Dave Hagan
Boingo Wireless CEO


Laurel Touby
Mediabistro.com founder, socializer-in-chief


Haroon Mokhtarzada
Webs.com CEO


Alec Foege
Right of the Dial: The Rise of Clear Channel and the Fall of Commercial Radio


Daniel Pink
The Adventures of Johnny Bunko, Free Agent Nation, A Whole New Mind


Alan Levy
BlogTalkRadio.com Founder


Brent Power
TheWB.com






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Ed Droste, HOOTERS RESTAURANTS co-founder: Mr. Media Interview

The first contact I ever had with Ed Droste was when I spotted a wreck of a boat along the north side of the Courtney Campbell Causeway in Clearwater, Florida. I had seen the wreck before, but this time, someone had painted “Hooters” on the hull in bright orange paint.

Hooters Restaurant – the original – had opened near the apartment in which I lived and it was already the talk of the town, thanks to its scantily clad, smart-mouthed waitresses, delicious chicken wings, ice cold beer and casual atmosphere.

That, and it’s single billboard across the street, featuring future Playboy Playmate, Lynne Austin.

I was a correspondent for the St. Petersburg Times back then, a cub reporter, and I convinced my editor that we should write about these Hooters guys, of which Droste was one of the six founders.

It’s a story I have gone back to again and again over the years because it’s never gotten dull. The company which passed $1 billion in revenues last year and has hundreds of restaurants in dozens of countries, will celebrate its 25th anniversary in October. And nobody understands what gets the media’s attention better than Ed Droste.

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