Michael Sharon

Michael is the co-founder and CEO of Taika, a generation beverage company focused on fueling creativity. According to his Facebook bio, he is constantly curious, clearly capricious, quietly quantitative and accidentally amusing. He’s a technology entrepreneur, angel investor and product leader who has led teams to create products used by billions of people. Until early 2016 he led the Pages product group at Facebook building out the products, revenue and strategy across the platforms and tools used by more than 60M businesses, celebrities and other organizations. He was the first mobile product hire at Facebook back in 2008 and subsequently led their mobile product development, strategy and transformation for more than five years. Prior to Facebook, Michael was an adjunct professor at New York University and the founder of Socialight - a pioneering mobile social location platform. Michael holds a master’s degree in interactive telecommunications from New York University and a bachelor's in English and Law from the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa. His products and work have been featured in most major publications including The New York Times, The Economist, Wired and The Guardian, among others. He holds multiple patents for his work in mobile technology, location and social networks. He thanks you for reading this far and really really hopes he never has to write things in the third person again. Seriously.

Stealth health, surfing started in Africa not Hawaii, design, creating community, tiny tattoos

Africa will drive culture in the 21st century.

Quiplash; planet-scale social; Sonos auxcore DJing; charging things