Shingy Reflects on His Time at AOL and What’s Next
AOL’s Digital Prophet speaks out
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22 min readOct 4, 2019
By Brian Feldman
Earlier this year, the tech world was rocked by the exit of Shingy. Yes, the rumors were true: Shingy was leaving AOL. Shingy (a play on his legal name, David Shing) made headlines in 2014 when he appeared on TV, touted as AOL’s “Digital Prophet.” To people who experienced Shingy…