Aug
16
7:30 PM19:30

Books Are Magic: Carrie Goldberg: Nobody's Victim with Christine Lagorio-Chafkin

Friday August 16 | 7:30PM - 8:30PM

Riveting, as well as an essential timely conversation-starter, Nobody’s Victim invites readers to join Carrie on the front lines of the war against sexual violence and privacy violations as she fights for revenge porn and sextortion laws, uncovers major Title IX violations, and sues the hell out of tech companies, schools, and powerful sexual predators. Her battle ground is the courtroom; her crusade to transform clients from victims into warriors.

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Mar
2
to Mar 3

Tucson Festival of Books

Tech and Our Changing Culture

We have seen big changes in how we work and play over the past 20 years. But, is it all good? How much has Reddit changed the way we interact on the internet? Has Silicon Valley ruined work for the rest of us? The authors answer these questions and more as they discuss their latest books.
Panelists: Christine Lagorio-ChafkinDan Lyons
Moderator: Hildy Ko
Koffler Room 218
Sat, Mar 2, 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Signing to follow 

They Changed the World, One Click at a Time

Authors Claire Evans and Christine Lagorio-Chafkin will look at the women who changed the internet, and how Reddit -- founded by two men -- changed everything else!
Panelists: Claire EvansChristine Lagorio-Chafkin
Moderator: George Jenson
Science City - Main Stage  
Sun, Mar 3, 10:00 am - 11:00 am
Signing to follow

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We are the Nerds w/ Reddit Co-Founder Steve Huffman in conversation with Christine Lagorio-Chafkin
Feb
11
7:30 PM19:30

We are the Nerds w/ Reddit Co-Founder Steve Huffman in conversation with Christine Lagorio-Chafkin

Christine will be joined in conversation with Reddit CEO and cofounder, Steve Huffman, at The Battery in San Francisco.

Steve Huffman, CEO & Co-Founder of Reddit, Inc. 

Steve Huffman is the co-founder and CEO of Reddit, the "front page of the internet" and fourth most visited site in the U.S. He is also the co-founder and former CEO of Hipmunk, the popular online travel company. Raised in northern Virginia, Huffman pursued his passion for programming from an early age and followed it through a computer science degree at the University of Virginia. In 2005, he and his college roommate Alexis Ohanian pitched their first start-up to then-new incubator Y Combinator. While the pair's initial idea for a food-ordering mobile app called My Mobile Menu was rejected, Y Combinator founder Paul Graham invited them to build a new startup, which soon led to their creation of Reddit. After selling the company in 2006, Huffman launched Hipmunk and was named to Inc. Magazine's “30 Under 30” list in 2011 and the Forbes “30 Under 30” list in 2012. A few years later, Huffman returned as CEO of Reddit, where he has led the company's development of native image and video hosting, a new mobile app, and a full site redesign while growing the Reddit community to over 330 million monthly users. In addition to his work at Reddit, Huffman is a mentor at Hackbright Academy, a San Francisco-based coding school for women. In his free time, he enjoys skiing, dancing, and browsing r/WholesomeMemes.

Christine Lagorio-Chafkin is an award-winning journalist who has covered culture, emerging technologies, and entrepreneurship for the past 15 years. She is senior writer at Inc. magazine and her work has appeared in many other publications, including The New York TimesThe San Francisco Chronicle, and the Washington Post. She was raised on a sheep farm in rural Wisconsin and now lives in New York City with her husband, cats, and toddlers. Her favorite subreddits are r/blep and r/ShowerThoughts.


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We Are the Nerds book launch at Powerhouse Arena
Oct
9
7:00 PM19:00

We Are the Nerds book launch at Powerhouse Arena

Book Launch: We Are the Nerds: The Birth and Tumultuous Life of Reddit, the Internet’s Culture Laboratory by Christine Lagorio-Chafkin in conversation with Justin Peters

Tuesday Oct 09, 2018
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

POWERHOUSE @ the Archway 
28 Adams Street (Corner of Adams & Water Street @ the Archway) 
Brooklyn , NY 11201

NOW: Watch it on CSPAN!

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Mar
12
12:30 PM12:30

Reddit: Life after (Near) Death, SXSW Mainstage

Steve Huffman co-founded Reddit, which billed itself “the front page of the Internet,” at age 21. When he returned to the company more than a decade later, in 2015, as chief executive, he faced terrible morale, and inability to ship products. The company had been rocked by a series of high-profile scandals. To get back on the course of growth, Huffman (known on Reddit as u/Spez) would have to fix several underlying problems. Two years later, he’s hired nearly 300 people, grown Reddit to the 4th-most-popular site in the United States, and managed to quell toxic speech on the site. In a conversation with award-winning journalist Christine Lagorio-Chafkin, who is writing a book about Reddit called We Are the Nerds, Huffman will open up about bringing his creation back from the brink.

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May
18
9:10 PM21:10

Opening Keynote and Alexis Ohanian of Reddit Interview

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Inc.'s GrowCo conference in Las Vegas. 

Fearlessness and the Future

Alexis Ohanian personified the dorm-room tech entrepreneur when, in 2005, he co-founded Reddit, the entertainment, social networking, and news website. Today, Reddit is among the top 50 websites in the world. Ohanian has gone on to start and invest in many successful companies like Hipmunk and Breadpig. He will share his business philosophies
on failure, on how not to worry about the competition, and on why it is essential to stay focused on creating your product or service.

Speaker: Alexis Ohanian, co-founder, Reddit; co-founder, Y Combinator; and author,Without Their Permission: How the 21st Century Will Be Made, Not Managed; Q&A Moderator: Christine Lagorio, senior writer, Inc.

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Mar
12
12:30 PM12:30

South by Southwest 2013 Main Stage

Esther Dyson, Release 0.9

Esther Dyson always seems to get interested in things before they become popular. Join us for an interactive discussion on what's intriguing right now to this always-curious, always-challenging, angel investor Her enthusiasms include space travel, the quantified self, and Russia. But she's no dreamer. She has investment positions in 23andMe, Facebook, Evernote, LinkedIn, Square, and Yandex, along with some of the most world's most fascinating companies you've never heard of. Interviewed by Christine Lagorio, executive editor of Inc. 

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