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Chris Messina is a designer, writer, avid Twitterer, and speaker who鈥檚 known for inventing the hashtag.
He works with developers, product designers, entrepreneurs, and communities to bring to life projects that should exist but don鈥檛. His superpower is pioneering initiatives before most people realize they鈥檒l be important, for example: co-organizing the community that launched Firefox, creating Google Developers, opening the first coworking spaces on earth, and starting BarCamp (the unconference). He鈥檚 currently chasing down a trend he calls 鈥渃onversational commerce鈥� in the bot/messaging space. He previously lead developer experience at Uber.
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