Building Innovation Communities with Erik Martin (Reddit, WeWork, Nike, Teal)

Building Post-Pandemic Innovation Communities with Erik Martin (Reddit, WeWork, Nike, Teal)

Fast Forward podcast livestream chat and Q&A

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How can individuals and companies build truly innovative and inclusive communities that propel us into the technological future we all want and need? Erik Martin (Chief Community Officer, Teal) joins Charlie Oliver (CEO of Tech 2025 and host of Fast Forward: the Post-Pandemic Innovation Podcast) for this livestreamed episode of the podcast to discuss what he has learned building and managing communities over the past 20 years. What did he learn building and managing communities for Reddit, WeWork, Nike and Teal and what does he think the post-pandemic innovation communities will be like?

ABOUT ERIK MARTIN

Erik Martin is a community management expert who has led teams at Nike, reddit, Depop, Airtime, & WeWork. He's currently the Chief Community Officer at Teal, a membership platform to help enable meaningful careers. Prior to Teal, he was a Lead Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Nike.

Erik was the longtime General Manager at reddit and the company’s 5th employee. As noted in the recent book about reddit, We Are The Nerds, "Martin was the company’s first nontechnical leader and managed to create a cohesive group and grow it into a strong if scrappy creative force...Martin quickly became an empowering boss. In the eyes of his employees, he was honest, compassionate, and creative. He encouraged employees to explore new concepts by giving them tools to learn, and then challenging them to produce something that would benefit the site or its community."

He’s been named one of the world’s 100 most influential people by Time Magazine and a top 50 innovator by Adweek. In a profile, The Washington Post said this about Erik, "It can’t be understated how poorly Martin fits the start-up culture stereotypes: the extravagance, the arrogance. He’s not overtly extroverted or introverted; he’s a quietish, funny, normal dude." Before his internet addiction fully took hold, he worked as an aspiring documentary filmmaker, and then transitioned to marketing documentary and independent films. Erik was born in Switzerland, grew up in Chapel Hill, NC, and lives in Portland, OR.

ABOUT FAST FORWARD PODCAST

Fast Forward: The Post-Pandemic Innovation Podcast, produced by Tech 2025 and hosted by Charlie Oliver (CEO of Tech 2025), will explore the new and next era of innovation that will empower each and every one of us to rebuild our world in the aftermath of the 2020 global pandemic.

We'll define the new culture of creativity and fearlessness that has been unleashed during the pandemic and how companies, governments and ordinary people are doing what was considered unimaginable just three months ago. We’ll discuss the stories, research, ideas, challenges and solutions driving post-pandemic innovation, and how to seize this rare opportunity to create the world we want.

Every week you can look forward to news, commentary and compelling interviews with people on the front-lines of demolishing antiquated systems and building new, more inclusive and truly creative solutions that challenges who we think we are and what we hope to be.

Fast Forward is the show where we figure out the future, together.