Ignite Talks by Tristan Harris

Tristan is the CEO and Co-Founder of Apture, which is re-imagining the way people access information on the web and the way publishers hold on to their readers.

Apture turns each page into an “information hub” that keeps their readers glued to the a publisher’s site. Apture also empowers readers to find information faster, without disrupting their experience by leaving the page. Try it by highlighting any phrase on this page.

Tristan is rated #16 in Inc. Magazine’s Top 30 Entrepreneurs under 30. A Mayfield Fellow with the Stanford Technology Ventures Program in entrepreneurship, by the age of 20, Tristan had filed his first patents around new information navigation and browsing interfaces shipping in the Mac OS X operating system. His work has been featured in the New York Times, Washington Post, eWeek, and he has given lectures and talks in conferences and universities across the world, including at MIT’s Media Lab and at Stanford University.

When not evangelizing Apture, Tristan spends his time reading about mirror neurons and behavioral economics, playing Yann Tiersen music on the piano, and dancing argentine tango in San Francisco. Tristan holds a BS in Computer Science from Stanford, with a focus in Human Computer Interaction. He stopped out of his Stanford Computer Science Masters degree to start the company.