Harper Reed: The Internet: High Speed Everything

Harper Reed understands the power and possibility of the Internet as few others do. Formerly chief technology officer for the innovative clothing company Threadless and then for Obama for America, Reed has been at the forefront of the information and communication revolution as it overturned established models and industries. Today he is helping to define the future of commerce at PayPal. Neal Sales-Griffin joins this extraordinary engineer for a conversation about where we are and where we’re headed on the Internet.

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