Founder & CEO, Zuckerberg Media and HUG
Randi Zuckerberg: Biography at a Glance
- As an early Facebook employee and creator of Facebook Live, Randi Zuckerberg played a key role in shaping the social internet, influencing how billions of people interact with content.
- Randi is a prominent advocate for women in tech and crypto, leveraging her experience to highlight the opportunities that blockchain and AI offer for autonomy, ownership, and financial success.
- In response to the lack of diversity in the crypto market, Randi founded HUG, a global social platform empowering over 20,000 artists from 160 countries, providing them with tools, mentorship, and opportunities to succeed as creative entrepreneurs.
- Under Randi's leadership, HUG has placed thousands of independent artists in exhibitions across the globe, distributed over $200,000 in grants and scholarships, and partnered with major entities like L'Oréal, Mastercard, and Sotheby’s.
- Beyond her tech career, Randi is an award-winning Broadway producer with three Tony Awards and hosts a weekly business radio show on SiriusXM.
- Randi is a sought-after speaker who offers unparalleled insights into the evolution of social media, technology, and content creation.
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Biography
Randi Zuckerberg has long been a pioneer in both technology and media. As an early employee at Facebook and the creator of Facebook Live, she was on the front lines of shaping the social internet and how billions of people interact with content. Her lifelong passion for the arts paired with her tech career has been pivotal in her quest to help families navigate the complexities of an increasingly digital landscape.
Now, her unique skill set is more valuable than ever as these worlds collide with the emergence of artificial intelligence and blockchain technology. As both an early adopter and prominent voice for women in crypto-adoption, Randi knows firsthand that these disruptive technologies offer unparalleled opportunities for autonomy, ownership, and financial success to creators and consumers alike.
In response to the crypto market’s growing gap in diversity, inclusion, and accessibility, Randi founded HUG in early 2022 with the mission of empowering artists to become successful creative entrepreneurs. HUG is an inclusive social platform that provides artists with tooling to showcase and sell both physical and digital work, while also connecting them with one another and one-of-a-kind opportunities for their art.
As of 2024, Randi’s leadership has led HUG to become a global community of more than 20,000 artists from 160 countries and counting, with Randi having personally mentored over a thousand of them with their crypto-enabled businesses. HUG continues to support artists through its three core tenets of discovery, opportunity, and education and has placed thousands of independent artists in their first exhibitions in over 20 cities worldwide. HUG has also distributed over $200,000 in grants and scholarships directly to independent creators and continues to partner with entities such as L'Oréal, Mastercard, Forbes, Sotheby’s, Christie's, MoMA, the United Nations, and more in support of artists and creative technologists.
Randi holds a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from Harvard University. She serves as both an investor and advisor to several early and mid-stage companies and sits on the board of directors for The Motley Fool and Life360.
Alongside her career as a tech innovator, she is an accomplished artist and producer who has performed on Broadway, winning three Tony awards for Hadestown, Oklahoma! and The Inheritance. She hosts a weekly business talk radio show, Randi Zuckerberg Means Business, on SiriusXM. She is an avid runner, having completed several marathons with podium finishes in ultra-marathons. While she may be known as “Mom to Start-ups”, Randi spends her days learning, growing, and sharing her love for arts with her husband and three children.
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StAI Ahead: Upleveling Yourself and Your Business with AI
Randi Zuckerberg is no stranger to being at the forefront of a technological wave. As an early employee at Facebook who helped shape Web 2.0 technology for billions of people, Randi is now providing insights into what’s next in the AI revolution.
Randi will cover the pros and cons of widespread AI use, giving an overview of the good, the bad, and the unknown while answering the most pressing questions about AI. An indispensable resource for executives, entrepreneurs, and professionals, Randi also provides a comprehensive guide to leveraging AI tools to propel yourself and your business into the future no matter your industry. In this constantly evolving conversation, Randi helps audiences make sense of AI as they walk away with actionable strategies for implementation, integration, and scaling.
Pick Three: You Can Have It All (Just Not Every Day)
Work. Sleep. Fitness. Family. Friends. Pick Three.
In an increasingly demanding world, we’ve been told that we can do everything—maintain friendships, devote ourselves to work, spend time with family, stay fit, and get enough sleep. We just need to learn to balance it all. Randi Zuckerberg doesn’t believe in being well-balanced. We can’t do it all every day, she contends, and trying to do so only leaves us frustrated and feeling inadequate. But we can succeed if we Pick Three.
From entrepreneurs to professionals, busy parents to students, Randi can help everyone learn to reject the unrealistic burden of balance and enjoy success in their own lives—by picking the most important areas to focus on in any given day.
Dot Complicated: What I Learned on the Front Lines of Social Media
In her business-keynote-meets-one-woman-comedy-show, Randi Zuckerberg does a deep dive into the latest, greatest, most exciting trends in technology, business, and entrepreneurship that you need to be thinking about right now. But watch out! Everything is Dot Complicated and with every great opportunity comes hidden challenges. Randi helps decode these challenges so that we can make the most of this exciting wired world we find ourselves in. And she does it all in a style that is lively, entertaining, educational, tailored to each specific audience, and uniquely Randi.
Future Consumers
Technology provides incredible new opportunities for our lives and our businesses. But it can also make us want to rip our hair out of our head with complication and confusion. In this insightful talk, Randi will give real world advice on how to make tech work for you and your business: recruiting, managing employees, marketing your business, engaging customers, and much more – in a talk that feels fun, lively, and fresh.
Our Disrupted World: The New Rules of Engagement
In 2007, Randi had a front row seat to the launch of the iPhone in Silicon Valley and the necessity for every single business to immediately pivot or go extinct. She helped lead her team at Facebook successfully through that massive shift in consumer behavior, launching new products and programs that are now used by more than a billion people around the globe. She is here now, with over a decade of hindsight and analysis, to help guide you through these current tumultuous times. It has become clear that consumer behavior has again shifted abruptly, and meaningfully, creating an opportunity for businesses willing to take the leap. During this program, Randi will take you through some of the most substantial shifts in consumer behavior expected to happen over the next 12-18 months, and how to get ahead of them, rather than be caught off guard.
Women in Business
After spending a decade working in technology, Randi found herself confronting her own complicated relationship with Silicon Valley. On one hand, celebrating the innovative, entrepreneurial spirit and future-thinking disruption. But on the other hand, left wondering, "where are the women? Where are people of color?" After spending ten years getting used to being the only woman in the room, Randi has now dedicated this next chapter of her professional career to promoting, championing, and investing in women through her own media company, Zuckerberg Media. In her funny, poignant, honest, and authentic talk, she'll discuss her own experiences as a woman on the front lines of tech and her ideas on how we can all work together towards a future where the next multi-billion dollar companies are founded by women.
Bitcoin, Cryptocurrency & The Metaverse
