Mark Weinstein is a world-renowned tech entrepreneur, contemporary thought leader, privacy expert, and one of the visionary inventors of social networking. He's the author of "Restoring Our Sanity Online" (2024, Wiley), endorsed by Steve Wozniak (Woz) and Sir Tim Berners-Lee. Mark has been featured in Newsweek, CNBC, Forbes, Fortune, LA Times, WSJ, NYT, The Hill, and many other media outlets. From Web1 in the 1990s into Web2 in the 2020s, he’s led award-winning social media companies that revolutionized the industry. In 1998, Mark launched SuperFamily and SuperFriends, two of the earliest social networks. They were listed on PC Magazine’s “Top 100 Sites” for three years. In 2016, Mark founded MeWe, the Facebook alternative with the industry’s first Privacy Bill of Rights. He led MeWe as its CEO until March 2021, winning accolades including being named a “2020 Most Innovative Social Media Company” by Fast Company and a “2019 Best Entrepreneurial Company in America” by Entrepreneur Magazine. MeWe grew to nearly 20 million users worldwide and millions of dollars in revenue—an unprecedented feat with no VC funding or marketing budget. He left MeWe to write "Restoring Our Sanity Online".Over the years, Mark’s advisors have included Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the Web; Steve “Woz” Wozniak, co-founder of Apple; Sherry Turkle, MIT academic and tech ethics leader; Raj Sisodia, co-founder of the Conscious Capitalism movement; and many others. A leading privacy advocate, his landmark 2020 TED Talk, “The Rise of Surveillance Capitalism,” exposed the infractions and manipulations of Big Tech, and called for a privacy revolution. Mark has also been listed as one of the “Top 8 Minds in Online Privacy” and named “Privacy by Design Ambassador” by the Canadian government. Mark is frequently interviewed and published in top-tier media including the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Fox, CNN, BBC, Newsweek, Los Angeles Times, The Hill, and more. He covers topics including social media, privacy, AI, free speech, antitrust, and protecting kids online. His previous books on habits and personal greatness won two Indie Book Awards and were endorsed by Stephen Covey. Mark received his BA from the University of California, Santa Cruz; and MBA from the Anderson School of Management at UCLA.markweinsteininventor.com