Laurie Segall

Journalist

Laurie Segall got her start identifying and interviewing founders of disruptive tech companies and bringing their stories to light.  She has interviewed entrepreneurs like Mark Zuckerberg, Tim Cook, and Bill Gates, giving her audience a behind the scenes look at tech companies like Twitter and Facebook during their meteoritic rise.

Covering technology for a decade, she has also interviewed the founders/CEOs of companies like Instagram, Twitter, Uber, Pinterest, Salesforce, Microsoft and more.

Segall was most recently a senior technology correspondent for CNN and editor-at-large for CNN Tech, where she covered the intersection of technology and culture for a decade. Her latest documentary for CNN, “Facebook at 15: It’s Complicated” provided unprecedented access to Facebook and top executives like CEO Mark Zuckerberg and COO Sheryl Sandberg. Segall was also the executive producer and host of, Mostly Human with Laurie Segall, a six-part investigative docuseries, exploring sex, love, death - humanity - through the lens of tech.

An award winning storyteller, Segall specializes in investigative reports showing the impact of technology on our daily lives. Her investigations range from emerging forms of online harassment to an intimate look at the hacker community and drug use in Silicon Valley.

After a decade covering tech, Segall is launching a venture exploring technology through the most important lens of all: the human one.