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Hey, Ted Radio Hour listener, it's Manusch, and today we are going behind the scenes a bit with an update about TED. So Ted is a nonprofit and it partners with NPR to make this show. But this show is just one of the many, many different things that the TED organization does.

There is the TED conference with TED Talks, of course, which you hear every week.

But also there's TED's climate initiative called Countdown.

There's its audacious project, which has given away hundreds of millions of dollars to other organizations.

And the man behind all of it is Chris Anderson. Chris is a visionary,

a tastemaker, a philanthropist. Over the last few decades, he has turned Ted into a globally recognized media organization. But recently, he decided he needed to change things up.

And he joined me to explain.

Chris, thank you so much for being here.

It's lovely to be here, Minutes.

So before we get to your announcement, can you just explain to folks how you came to be the head of Ted?

Because it's quite a story.

A Ted head.

Yes.

We all are Ted heads at this point, Chris.

It's a long story, actually.

I was a media entrepreneur back in the 80s and 90s.

Started in England, published a bunch of magazines, came to America to do the same,

and was introduced to this quirky conference in California. It was all about technology and entertainment and design, and weirdly how those three

things might fit together. And so, I think it was 1998. It was the first time I went. I fell in love

with it. You don't normally fall in love with conferences, but there was

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