# June Cohen

> June Cohen is an American media producer, entrepreneur and author who helped launch TED Talks online in 2006 and co-founded WaitWhat with Deron Triff in 2017. Her work spans early web publishing at HotWired and Webmonkey, TED’s volunteer translation project, and podcasts including Masters of Scale and Spark & Fire. She is WaitWhat’s former CEO and the author of The Great Remembering, published in October 2026.

- **Role:** Co-founder and former CEO at WaitWhat; author
- **Organizations:** WaitWhat, TED, HotWired, Webmonkey, The Stanford Daily
- **Nationality:** American
- **Education:** BA in political science, Stanford University
- **Known for:** Helped turn TED’s conference talks into a globally distributed online media offering., Created TED’s Open Translation Project, launched with 300 translations in 40 languages., Co-founded WaitWhat and co-created Masters of Scale, Meditative Story, Should This Exist? and Spark & Fire.

## Career timeline

- **1991** — Led the Stanford team behind multimedia publication Proteus.
- **1994** — Helped launch HotWired; worked there until 2000.
- **1996** — Launched web development resource Webmonkey.
- **2003** — Published The Unusually Useful Web Book.
- **2005** — Joined TED.
- **2006** — Helped launch TED Talks online on June 27 with six talks.
- **2009** — Launched TED’s Open Translation Project.
- **2017** — Co-founded WaitWhat with Deron Triff; Masters of Scale launched with Reid Hoffman.
- **2021** — Spark & Fire launched; co-authored the Masters of Scale book.
- **2023** — Handed WaitWhat’s leadership to Jeff Berman in September.
- **2026** — The Great Remembering published by Authors Equity on October 20.

## Achievements

- Helped turn TED’s conference talks into a globally distributed online media offering.
- Created TED’s Open Translation Project, launched with 300 translations in 40 languages.
- Co-founded WaitWhat and co-created Masters of Scale, Meditative Story, Should This Exist? and Spark & Fire.
- Co-authored Masters of Scale: Surprising Truths from the World’s Most Successful Entrepreneurs, a Wall Street Journal bestseller.
- Her work has received Webby honors and a Peabody; her official author biography reports more than 100 industry awards across her work.

## Latest updates

- **2026-10** — The Great Remembering was published by Authors Equity on October 20, 2026; publisher metadata lists 368 pages.
- **2026-10** — In an October 24 Author Insider interview, Cohen discussed her writing routine, early readers and creative influences.

## Links

- Website: https://www.thegreatremembering.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cohenjune
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/junecohen

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