glenn in the media

Interviews

Glenn Fleishman has been interviewed many times about his design education, working at the Kodak Center for Creative Imaging, his time as an early employee at Amazon.com, founding one of the first Internet web hosting companies, winning two episodes of the Jeopardy gameshow, and many other topics. Below are selected entries from across his career.

• The Seattle Times featured a long interview with Glenn as a full-page article to coincide with the publication of his authoritative work on newspaper comics printing, How Comics Are Made (Andrews McMeel Publishing, June 2025).
• Glenn appeared twice on the Internet History Podcast to share stories of the early internet with host Brian McCullough. In 2015, they first talked about Glenn’s work at Amazon.com in 1996–97; later that year, Glenn returned for more Amazon talk and general insights from his work as a journalist.
• The Mac Observer’s John Martellaro interviews Glenn about his technology background (2016).
• An interview with Glenn in Fast Company, as John Paul Titlow asks him about the shuttering of The Magazine, a publication Glenn was editor and publisher of (2014).
• GeekWire interviewed Glenn about The Magazine and his work in finding it a place in the Apple Newsstand ecosystem (2013).
• Glenn spoke about his writing workflow with Macdrifter’s Gabriel Weatherhead (2012)
• Sheila Bender added Glenn to her list of writers she interviewed across her long career (2016).
• Renowned newspaper editor and media futurist Ken Doctor featured an interview with Glenn about his journalism career in his 2010 book, Newsonomics: Twelve New Trends That Will Shape the News You Get.
• Darren Rowse of Problogger asks Glenn about his career in this 2005 interview.
• Gizmodo wondered what was in Glenn's gadget bag (2004).
• Glenn sat for hours of interviews with Robert Spector for his book about Amazon.com, Get Big Fast (2002)
• Credited in Chris Anderson’s epochal The Long Tail: “…Glenn Fleishman, who contributed hugely to the Amazon sections…”

Significant Events

• Gathered a group on New Year’s Eve 2019 to sing “Yes, We Have No Bananas,” which had just entered the public domain. The singing was covered two years later by National Public Radio in this report.
• Appeared in three episodes of Jeopardy! and won two (as could be inferred) in 2012. While not a professional achievement, it was a life goal. He was interviewed on several podcasts about his experience: High Density with Horace Dediu, the Incomparable with Jason Snell hosting, Mac Power Users with David Sparks and Katie Floyd, and The Talk Show with John Gruber.
• When an unintentionally huge number of downloads of a PDF nearly led to a $15,000 bandwidth bill in 2011, Glenn wound up receiving worldwide coverage of the cautionary tale: BBC News, Apple news site TidBITS, Wired, and his own story in the New York Times. (The bill was averted.)

• Hosted the first feature film broadcast over the internet, Party Girl, on 3 June 1995. The event was brought together by the Seattle International Film Festival and happened at the office of the company Glenn co-founded, Point of Presence Company. His role involved pulling together partners, managing aspects of the technology, and providing the venue and bandwidth. The event was covered by NBC News (video segment here). The website Dazed wrote a 20th anniversary article, while the 25th anniversary was celebrated with an oral history including Glenn in the Wall Street Journal. Glenn was also interviewed timed with the release of a Blu-Ray remastering of Party Girl in Defector, 10 March 2023: “How 1995’s ‘Party Girl’ Became The First Movie To Premiere Online.”
• An early employee at Amazon.com, hired directly by Jeff Bezos, Glenn worked as catalog manager from 1996 to 1997.
• Founded an early web hosting company in 1994, Point of Presence Company, with Todd Haedrich. The company was significant enough at that time for Netscape to quote Todd in its press release announcing Netscape Navigator.

Other Appearances

• Photographer Jeff Carlson featured Glenn in a photo essay about his year as an artist in residence at a letterpress program in Seattle.
• Glenn was invited to speak at the Grabhorn Institute in San Francisco about his project the Tiny Type Museum & Time Capsule (2019).