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[3] She was part of the team that launched the site in 1994, and from 1997-2000, as the young Vice President of Content, she helped lead HotWired to profitability.

"[7] After leaving Wired magazine, Cohen wrote "The Unusually Useful Web Book" in 2003, hailed by critics as "an instant classic" and translated into four languages.

[9][10] Ever since Chris Anderson had, in 2001, acquired the TED conference—an elite, expensive, annual event, isolated from the world at large—he was looking for ways to make the talks available to a wider audience beyond the conference.

"When the BBC told me that TED talks were too intellectual for them, I thought it was time to change strategies,"[11] In June 2006, a small batch of free videos were posted online, under Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs Creative Commons license.

[12] Based on that success, TED pumped hundreds of thousands of dollars into its video production operations and into the development of a Web site to showcase about 100 of the talks.

[12] "Conventional business logic would tell you that in a community like TED you have to keep your commodity scarce and expensive to retain brand value," she said in an interview.

"But the same year we started releasing most of our content for free we raised our conference price by nearly 50 percent and still sold out in 12 days.

The anonymous speakers included a doctor who believed she killed a patient; a Silicon Valley executive who experienced a mental breakdown; a yoga instructor who unleashed pepper spray in a department store; and a woman in a violent marriage who invented a ritual that she believes saved her life.

Sincerely X received a 2018 Gracie Award for the episode “Rescued by Ritual.”[42] June Cohen describes herself as "passionate about the visual and performing arts".

She also describes herself as "a tremendous science geek, a voracious reader, a passionate traveler, an on-again, off-again photographer and a devoted life-long learner.