Finding (and LEAVING) Dream Jobs and Inspiring and Leading Great Talent with Matt Rogers (Nest Labs)
May 20, 2014
Matt Rogers is the co-founder of Nest Labs, a home automation company headquartered in Palo Alto, California that designs and manufactures sensor-driven, Wi-Fi-enabled, self-learning, programmable thermostats and smoke detectors. Nest was recently acquired by Google for $3.2 billion. In this 2013 talk, Rogers discusses...
May 20, 2014
In 2011 Forbes named Ann Miura-Ko the most powerful woman in Silicon Valley. A Co - Founding Partner at FLOODGATE, her investment interests include innovations in e-commerce, security, big data and radical science. She currently sits on the boards of Modcloth, Refinery29, Chloe and Isabel, Wanelo, Ayasdi, Maker Media,...
May 20, 2014
Bill Maris is a managing partner at Google Ventures, which manages more than $1.5 billion in investments spread across a portfolio of 225 companies. In this talk Maris, who holds a neuroscience degree from Middlebury College and was the founder of Burlee, discusses how to identify a great founder or product, and what...
May 20, 2014
Most people know MC Hammer as a rapper, dancer and producer. He brought rap music to a mass pop audience during the late 1980s and early 1990s, selling millions of copies of his chart topping albums. But he's also an entrepreneur, and has been ever since his first job selling baseballs in the parking lot at Oakland A's...
May 20, 2014
Naval Ravikant is the founder and CEO of AngelList, a platform for pairing entrepreneurs with investors. As the founder of Epinions, Vast, and Venturehacks, Naval was already an extremely successful entrepreneur prior to launching AngelList. He is also an investor whose credits include Uber, Twitter, FourSquare,...