Chris Messina Biography

Chris Messina has spent a decade living on the edge of social technology. He has designed products and experiences for Google and Uber founded startups and changed the world by giving away many of his creations including the hashtag. His skillset is broad anchored in product and user experience design.
Most recently he lead developer experience at Uber and co-founded Molly (YC W’18) a conversational social AI. Chris has created movements online and off and has acted as an agent of change in large and small organizations.
In 2004 he helped organize the grassroots movement that propelled Mozilla Firefox to its first 100 million downloads. In 2005 he co-organized the first BarCamp and then popularized the unconference event model to over 350 cities around the world. In 2006 he opened the first dedicated coworking space in San Francisco giving rise to a global movement. Then in 2007 he brought the idea of the hashtag to Twitter changing social media forever and galvanizing social revolutions across the globe.
He has spoken at conferences like SXSW Web 2.0 Expo Google |/0 and Microsoft’s Future Decoded and has frequently been quoted in media outlets like The New York Times Business Week LA Times Washington Post and Wired.

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