Aug 8, 2016
Payal Kadakia, CEO and Co-founder of ClassPass at our Global Conference earlier this year.
Payal is also the artistic director for The Sa Dance Company. Payal has been a “dancetrepreneur” since the age of 3 when she started training in Indian classical and folk styles of dance. It was her passion for...
Aug 3, 2016
Co-founder and CTO of Youtube Steven Chen.
Born in August 1978 in Taiwan. Raised in Taiwan, Chen and his family immigrated to the United States when he was 15. After graduating from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Chen worked at PayPal, where he met Chad Hurley and Jawed Karim.
In 2005, the three...
Aug 1, 2016
Rob Solomon CEO of GoFundMe, prior venture partner at Accel, and previous President of Groupon.
As venture partner at Accel, he advised their portfolio companies on a wide range of strategic and operational issues. Rob's most recent operating role was as President and COO of Groupon during the company's hyper-growth...
Jul 27, 2016
Tim is the founding partner of the leading venture capital firms Draper Associated and DFJ. Tim’s early success came with the suggestion to use viral marketing in web-based email to grow one of the original web mail services and one of his first investments, HotMail. The technique has since been adopted by hundred of...
Jul 25, 2016
Noah Everett, founder of the popular Twitpic photo sharing service and most recently the messaging platform Pingly.
Everett, a Carolina native is widely known as a pioneer of photo sharing on mobile phones and social media. Newly launched Pingly is a direct messaging platform that also works over email and SMS. His...