For 25 years Chris Anderson was a maestro wit, wisdom and, sometimes, goey flash that is Ted. Since in 2000 he took over the reins of a small but influential annual conference “Technology, Entertainment and Design”, he was incorporated into famous, if sometimes ridicules, a conglomerate “Idea of Valuable Division”, which includes a traffic YouTube channel, thousands of local licensed gatherings called TEDX, and the archive of more than a quarter of a million conversations, including those from Elon muskMonica Lewinsky, and of course Bono. There are Ted Podcastovi, Radio Ted Radio on the EP and Educational Program called TED-ed.
Now he wants to give everything.
It’s today announcing his intention To step down from non -profit organizations and transfer the whole Kaboodle to the one who shares the best idea of what to do with it. “It seems like the idea of Bonkers, except that Teda ever happened since I was overseeing it happened when we let go of something,” he told me, speaking exclusively Wired. “We gave the content and that is what Ted Viral did. We gave Mark in the form of Tedx licenses. When you give someone else control over something, you give them the motivation to do their best. There are incredible things in the next chapter. And so I think it’s time to try the same thing again.
Anderson says he did not burn. But it’s 25 years long. He will not make money for a transaction -he is rich anyway, from running technological publications in the 80s and 90s -and never took his salary on TED. Despite the perception that Ted has passed His Prime MinisterHe says the organization is in good shape. While membership was decaying during the pandemic, the company’s finances were now recovering. His The latest financial application Reports on the balance of the state of about $ 100 million, and Anderson says TED has $ 25 million in cash reserves. He adds that the seats (most of the 12,500 dollars were sold for the next week of the conference, in the theater with 1,500 seats in Vancouver in British Columbia, as always. Altman himself will be in the building!!
You want? Check your bank account. Anderson wants someone with Gotovina to take Ted to a new level. Who could it be? Dissatisfied defaults could be some superbilionaries who prefer to hear from marine guardians, evolutionary anthropologists and “global souls”-all speakers at TED 2025-Nego hung out in Mar-a-lag. Instead, Anderson predicts a university, one of the great philanthropic organizations, the main media sales, a city seeking the cerebral version of the Fringe Festival or even a large technology or AI company. (Imagine that former speakers will welcome how their conversations are used to train the next version of the twin or Copilot.) Consider the collective decentralized autonomous organization-grip of many Ted-Stras organized by Blockchain-may hold the current community. This idea seems distant, but so are some of the conversations you could find in the Red Circle of the TED stage. Surprise him.
“There is an opportunity to bring knowledge far and wide, but with our current resources we cannot do it solo,” he says. “I just want to open a tent and see who can introduce my version of that vision and resources to make it real. And part of me just loves a kind of playful horror surprise. I honestly don’t know what happens.”
Ted-Sister will not even cause some anger. I attend the Ted Conference of the Olympics outside the 1990s, when an eccentric architect named Richard Saul Wurman led an event at a small theater in Monterey, California. As the first participant of TED, Anderson was so fascinated that he bought a franchise and expanded his audience of 550 people in the theater to millions, making the term “Ted Talk” in Klichis, for better or worse. When I attended, I wrote shipping “Ted -Aa” that Anderson usually takes good humor, except in the 2009 time when I criticized him because there is not much content regarding the economic crisis. (He Answered On stage.) It will be strange with Ted without him, but then it would be more wonderful to him that he would continue forever.