Roger McNamee in Austin on Mar 26
The Forrest Four-Cast: March 25, 2019
If you missed Roger McNamee’s keynote interview with Nicholas Thompson of Wired at SXSW 2019, then catch him at BookPeople in Austin (603 North Lamar) at 7pm on Tuesday, March 26.
A Silicon Valley investor for 35 years, McNamee has co-founded successful funds in venture, crossover and private equity. His most recent fund, Elevation, included U2’s Bono as a co-founder. He holds a B.A. from Yale University and an M.B.A. from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College
McNamee’s three decades of tech investing experience serve as the background for “Zucked: Waking Up to the Facebook Catastrophe.” This book is an intimate reckoning with the catastrophic failure of the head of one of the world’s most powerful companies to face up to the damage he is doing. It’s a story that begins with a series of rude awakenings. First there is the author’s dawning realization that the platform is being manipulated by some very bad actors. Then there is the even more unsettling realization that Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg are unable or unwilling to share his concerns, polite as they may be to his face.
His presentation at SXSW 2019 aligned with one of the main themes of this year’s event, which was digital distrust in the wake of massive data and privacy challenges from the world’s largest tech companies.
More Austin Events for the Week of March 25
March 25: Jim Donovan Book Reading
March 25: Code in the Brewery Presented by Lazarus & General Assembly
March 25: Action Design ATX Meet Up
March 25: Austin Hispanic Hackers Meet Up
March 25: Austin WooCommerce Meet Up
March 25: Learn to Code: Objects and Arrays
March 25: VetsinTech TX & DraftKings Web Dev Training
March 26: Roger McNamee Book Reading
March 26: Allyship in Action
March 26: Introduction to Designing for Time Well Spent
March 26: Front-End Web Development Info Session
March 26: VetsinTech TX & DraftKings Web Dev Training
March 26: Founders Stories Austin with Joel Trammell
March 26: Austin Developing Product Managers Meet Up
March 26: Austin Startup Meet Up
March 27: Patton Oswalt Book Reading
March 27: How to Grow Your Business with an Accelerator
March 27: Free Introduction to Digital Marketing
March 27: VetsinTech TX & DraftKings Web Dev Training
March 27: Product Management Austin Meet Up
March 27: Austin Ethereum Meet Up
March 27: Founders Live Meet Up
March 27: Austin IoT Meet Up
March 28: Free Introduction to Data Science
March 28: PR 101 for Startups
March 28: VetsinTech TX & DraftKings Web Dev Training
March 28: Austin Sales & Business Development Meet Up
March 28: NonProfit Tech Club Austin Meet Up
March 28: Austin Big Data AI Meet Up
March 29: Design Thinking for Startups
March 30: Startup Bootkamp
More Upcoming Austin Events
March 31: Deadline for registration discount for SXSW 2020
April 1: Texas Defense Innovation Forum
April 1: Diversity and Inclusion in the Workplace
April 3: Purpose Driven Approaches for Next Gen Leaders with Walter Robb
April 5: STEM in the Technopolis 2019
April 9: Austin CTO Summit 2019
April 9: The Future of Finance
April 9: Austin Forum: Tech Idea to Tech Startup
April 10: Techstars Austin Demo Day
April 11: The Data & Security Summit
April 11: Austin Technology Council Roundtable: Women in Tech
April 12–26: Future Tense Design Exhibit
April 12–14: Startup Weekend Hackout
April 13: Girls in STEM Conference
April 16: Austin Technology Council Roundtable: Sales Leadership
April 16: PowerUp With Hugh Forrest and Gerald Youngblood
May 2: Fund Conference Austin
May 7: Philanthropitch Austin
May 23: Austin A-List Ceremony
May 29–31: Dig-In: The Future of Digital Insurance
June 24: 2020 SXSW PanelPicker entry process begins
July 5–7: RTX Austin
Nov 13–14: Time Machine 2019
Hugh Forrest serves as Chief Programming Officer at SXSW, the world’s most unique gathering of creative professionals. He also tries to write at least four paragraphs per day on Medium. These posts often cover tech-related trends; other times they focus on books, pop culture, sports and other current events.
