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Can We Still Be Optimistic About The Internet? — With Meetup Founder Scott Heiferman
Big Technology Podcast
English - August 18, 2021 09:06 - 51 minutesTech News News Politics Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Scott Heiferman is the founder of Meetup, a website that connects people online and gets them to meet each other offline. Heiferman joins Big Technology Podcast to discuss whether the internet can still bring people together vs. tear them apart, the latter of which it's done plenty of recently. This wide-ranging conversation gets into people's declining faith in institutions, our friendships and loneliness, Facebook's role in all this, virtual reality's potential, and the new company Heiferman is building today.