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Hello and welcome to Tech Won't Save Us, made in partnership with The Nation magazine.

I'm your host, Paris Marks.

And before we hop into this week's episode, I wanted to let you know that.

I have some events coming up in New Zealand.

I'll be speaking in Christchurch on February 4th and in Wellington on February 8th. I don't know if all the details will be out by the time

this episode airs. If they are, you know, you'll find the links in the show notes. If not,

you can certainly visit my website, parismarks.com, where, you know, the information will be there

once it's all finalized. I'm also working on setting up an event in Auckland. So hopefully I'll have some details on that for you next week. And I would also just say I don't have current plans to go to Australia.

You know, it's not in my itinerary at the moment. But if there are any groups or anyone in

Australia who would be interested in having me come speak across the ditch, get in touch,

and maybe we can set something up. I have an interesting episode for you

today. Last year, we spoke to Emily Hund about the influencer economy and how that kind of all

developed, and I was surprised by the interest in that topic. People seem to really like it.

And so I figured in this episode, we dive into that a bit more, but with a specific focus on

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