Best known as the cofounder of the social news site Reddit.com, Brooklyn-based entrepreneur/investor Alexis Ohanian shares stories of artists, enterprisers, and civic-minded hackers that have taken the initiative and gotten surprising results. His new book, Without Their Permission: How the 21st Century Will Be Made Not Managed, is a call to action that combines advice and marketing secrets for building successful start-up ventures with heartwarming examples of Internet use for grass-roots campaigns.
This lecture will be webcast live and archived on the Walker Channel.
Reddit's Alexis Ohanian on Tech, Epic Fails, and Social Change
With millions of users worldwide, Reddit.com has become a bona fide cultural force. It's hosted Q&As with the likes of Barack Obama and Stephen Colbert, launched web memes like Grumpy Cat, and championed activist causes, from fighting the PROTECT IP Act to winning a Greenpeace whale-naming contest. In a wide-ranging interview, cofounder Alexis Ohanian discusses failure, activism, and the Internet.
