View from the ‘Loo: Alexis Ohanian, Saul Colt weigh in on Waterloo Region tech [VIDEO]

We called this column View from the ‘Loo for an obvious reason – to signal that we’re sharing perspectives from inside Waterloo Region’s tech community.

At the same time, it’s always good to take in the view from outside the ‘Loo when the opportunity arises, since the way we view ourselves doesn’t always line up with how others see us.

Communitech’s annual Techtoberfest, held last Thursday and Friday, served up several such opportunities, thanks to a diverse slate of keynote speakers from near and far. If you missed it, you can review our live-blog archive of each keynote here.

I grabbed my video camera and separately cornered two of our speakers – Alexis Ohanian, the Brooklyn-based co-founder of Reddit, startup investor and author of the recently released Without Their Permission: How the 21^st Century Will Be Made, Not Managed; and Saul Colt, a rockstar word-of-mouth marketer from Toronto with a gift for crafting memorably irreverent campaigns.

Read the full story and watch the videos here