Alexa Hirschfeld is a co-founder of Paperless Post, a startup that has delivered over 100 million online and paper invitations since it launched in 2009. Paperless Post has revolutionized both the style and substance of its category. It introduced design as a core value of the medium, removed ads, and changed the way people look at the vertical. The company has raised over $12 million in venture financing.
Alexa has been recognized as one of Fortune’s “10 Most Powerful Women Entrepreneurs” and was one of Fast Company’s “Most Influential Women in Technology” in both 2010 and 2011. She was named a New York Venture fellow by the New York City Economic Development Corporation in 2012. She received a B.A. in classics from Harvard College in 2006.
The Limits of the Virtual
It often seems that nearly everything can be done and done better (or at least facilitated) online. But some activities (like this conference) remain resolutely non-virtual. What are the limits of the digital in products, services, the workplace, and business in general? What about human relations, communications, education and training, or science and medicine? Gary Bolles of eParachute, Alexa Hirschfeld of Paperless Post, Ericsson's Vish Nandlall, Facebook's Cory Ondrejka, and Paul J. Zak of Claremont Graduate University discuss. Watch video and read the complete transcript here.
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Techonomy 13
A new society is coming into being. People around the world are building it using the rapidly-evolving tools of technology.
