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HUBERT BURDA: GERMANY'S AGENT OF CHANGE
By John Brockman
Cannes, January, 1995. I walk across the beach to meet Hubert Burda for lunch. Burda, publisher of Focus Magazine and the co-founder, with Pearson in the UK and Hachette in France of Europe Online, which is already up and running, is at the MILIA conference to deliver the keynote address, introduced by Lord Weidenfeld, Chairman of Burda's New World Vision. I find him and his ever-present entourage at an outdoor restaurant. He is seated next to a tall, beautiful young woman, Jane Metcalfe, New Media entrepreneur who is cofounder of Wired Magazine — Burda is an investor in HotWired, the magazine's online venture. Around them a group of young men, his aides, all wearing dark... Go to conversation