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I'm Guy Kawasaki, and this is the Remarkable People podcast.

This episode's remarkable guest is Chris Messina.

He is a man of many talents.

He may be best known for inventing the social media convention called the hashtag.

That's a hell of a moniker.

What are you done?

Oh, I invented the hashtag.

But this simple concept made Twitter and other social media platforms much more useful when people are searching for information.

He's also designed products for Uber and Google and helped create Barcamp, the free and flexible Unconference.

He is the number one product hunter, meaning that he's uncovered

more products than anyone else on product hunt, the website featuring new products. What he

explains about new product introductions is helpful to any entrepreneur. He currently leads

West Coast business development for Republic, a fundraising platform that is

democratizing venture capital by enabling people to invest in privately held startups.

In short, he is an evangelist. He has few peers in the areas of open source, tech innovation,

and tech investments. This episode of Remarkable People is brought you by Remarkable, the paper

tablet company. Yes, you got that right. Remarkable is sponsored by Remarkable. I have version

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