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Laurie Segall

CEO
Mostly Human

Laurie Segall is the founder of Mostly Human Media, an entertainment company focused on society and artificial intelligence.

Formerly CNN’s senior tech correspondent and a reporter for 60 Minutes, Segall has interviewed the world’s most influential tech leaders including Mark Zuckerberg and Tim Cook. Her access to the titans of tech has allowed her to give audiences a behind-the-scenes look at companies like Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and Uber during their meteoritic rise. Segall chronicled her experience and the human impact of a decade of innovation in her memoir, Special Characters: My Adventures with Tech’s Titans and Misfits.

She served as executive producer and host of CNN’s Mostly Human with Laurie Segall, A docu-series that explored sex, love, death, and humanity through the lens of tech. She has received numerous awards for her work championing women, including a Gracie Award for her docuseries Revenge Porn: The War on Women, which shed light on an alarming type of cyber harassment aimed at women. Although Segall interviews the tech billionaires, she has committed her career to covering those impacted by their code.

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