Founder and CEO of Giphy, Alex Chung, shares his reflections on the limits of written language, the topic of wonder, and how GIFs help break boundaries.
About the speaker
Alex Chung is currently the founder and CEO of Giphy, the people who bring you all the GIFs.
Before founding Giphy, he worked on hardware at Intel and music videos at MTV as well as over a dozen startups over the last 20 years.
He was named on Business Insider’s Top 25 most influential technologists in New York, Ad Age’s 50 most creative people, Fast Company’s most creative people in business right next to Beyoncé, and has degrees in philosophy, computer engineering, and graphic design.
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Wonder is a mix of curiosity, doubt, and play.
If you exchange things without money they're way more valuable.
Why don't smoke detectors have pause buttons?
All of wonder is another euphemism for the act of creation.
People don't really know Jiu Jitsu was made by Buddhists. So, it's called the 'gentle art'.
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