The digital media landscape has transformed tremendously in the last few years. Hear from the experts on their take in today's landscape.
The College of Science Spring 2019 Commencement Ceremony
Location: McKale Center, UA Campus
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-Chafkin, Dan Lyons
Moderator: Hildy Ko
Koffler Room 218
Sat, Mar 2, 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Signing to follow
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 Evans, Christine Lagorio-Chafkin
Moderator: George Jenson
Science City - Main Stage
Sun, Mar 3, 10:00 am - 11:00 am
Signing to follow
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 Times, The 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.
“One thing I always say is freedom of speech is not freedom from consequence.” –Kara Swisher
“There is an absolute link between the degradation of our civic discourse and what happened on these sites.” –Kara Swisher
Interviewed by Doug Gordon, WPR BETA. Listen/read here.
Interviewed by Barry Moltz on AM820 WCPT in Chicago
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
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.
Jeff Raider, co-founder of Harry's and Warby Parker, describes to Inc. senior writer Christine Lagorio-Chafkin how he spent eight months pitching investors and stringing together a deal with a razor manufacturer.
Phil Libin, the founder of Evernote, who is now an investor, wants to see the results of a startup's "innovation"--not hear them talk about it.
Inc.'s GrowCo conference in Las Vegas.
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.
Inc. senior writer Christine Lagorio-Chafkin interviews Nasty Gal founder Sophia Amoruso.
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.
