Mark Weinstein

Mark Weinstein is an Internationally recognized tech entrepreneur, thought leader, privacy expert, and one of the visionary inventors of social networking. Weinstein is one of the most consistently published and interviewed tech authorities in top-tier media worldwide. He's appeared in major outlets across the USA, Great Britain, France, Germany, Spain, Russia, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, the Philippines, Hong Kong, Japan, Australia, Turkey, and more.

Weinstein is a lively and engaging speaker, as demonstrated by his landmark TED Talk: The Rise of Surveillance Capitalism. He's skilled in motivating audiences, having also authored the "Habitually Great" book series, which won two "Indie Book Awards" and were endorsed by Stephen Covey, renowned author of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, who called the books "an important and principled examination of how to achieve our individual and collective greatness".

As a pioneer of social networking, Mark founded two of the earliest social networks in the 1990's, SuperFamily.com and SuperFriends.com, which were both named PC Magazine "Top 100" sites, one of the most prestigious awards for websites at that time.

Weinstein then revolutionized social media again in 2016 with the launch of MeWe, the 20-million member Facebook alternative that respects user and data privacy. Weinstein led MeWe to receive numerous accolades, including being named a "Most Innovative Social Media Company" by Fast Company, "Best Entrepreneurial Companies In America" by Entrepreneur Magazine, and "Start-Up of the Year Finalist" at SXSW for "Innovative World Technology".

Weinstein's advisors have included tech and business luminaries such as Sir Tim Berners-Lee (inventor of the Web), Steve Wozniak (co-founder of Apple), Raj Sisodia (co-founder of the global Conscious Capitalism movement), and Sherry Turkle (tech ethics leader, MIT professor). He left MeWe in July 2022 and is currently writing a book on the intersection of social media, mental health, privacy, civil discourse and democracy.