Jen Wong – Reddit, the Bustling Market Place of Ideas: How To Preserve and Monetize Community-Driven Free Expression
Reddit COO Jen Wong steers one of the largest social networks on the internet, and the one you probably hear about the least. Despite not being a media darling, Reddit is probably one of the largest, if not the largest, repositories of discussion in the digital world. Reddit cleaves to old-school Internet values of free […]
Galyn Bernard & Christina Carbonell – Business of Keeping It Simple: How Less is More at Primary
They outgrow them in hours. They cost a fortune and you always need more. They have graphics and slogans that seem more to reflect the biases of the people who buy them than the people who wear them. You’ve probably guessed the topic: childrens’ clothes. The $70 billion global market is filled with long-standing brands […]
You Are The Product: Giancarlo Pitocco and the Attention Economy
Giancarlo Pitocco left a career working for Facebook, Instagram, Apple and the world’s largest ad agencies to fight back against the mental health, productivity, and creativity crisis caused by the attention economy and its agents- habit-forming technology. He founded Purposeful, a well-being practice teaching educators, companies, communities, and individuals to renegotiate their relationships to the […]
