Startup Grind

Fireside chat with Steve Hoffman(Captain Hoff), the Captain & CEO of Founders Space, one of the world’s leading startup accelerators. Founders Space was ranked the #1 incubator for overseas startups by Forbes and Entrepreneur Magazines.

Fireside chat with Leena Nair, the first female, first Asian and youngest ever CHRO of Unilever and member of the Unilever Leadership Executive (ULE).

Under her leadership Unilever has achieved a 50/50 gender balance across global leadership, led the design and implementation of progressive new working practices and models. She has continued to lead a pioneering agenda, playing an instrumental role in launching Unilever’s new social commitments, including a commitment to pay living wage across its whole supply chain.

Fireside chat with Phil Libin, the co-founder and CEO of All Turtles, a mission-driven product studio, and mmhmm, a new app that makes video communication more clear and compelling. Previously he was Managing Director at General Catalyst, and before that he was co-founder and CEO of Evernote, which he grew to become a beloved product for hundreds of millions of users.

Fireside chat with Stefano Mastrogiacomo, Project Management Professor, speaker and coach at Strategizer, and the designer of the Team Alignment Map.

Fireside chat with Matt Cooper the CEO of Skillshare. He believes that learning is transformative-- individually, socially, economically-- and his mission at Skillshare is to connect life-long learners everywhere and build a more creative and prosperous world.

Fireside chat with Chris Do, an Emmy award-winning designer, director, CEO and Chief Strategist of Blind and the founder of The Futur—an online education platform with the mission of teaching 1 billion people how to make a living doing what they love.

Fireside chat with Misha de Sterke, senior partner at Innoleaps and author of 10x Growth Machine. He talks about the hidden growth dilemmas within large companies and the importance of corporate innovation.

Fireside chat with Casey Fenton, the founder and CEO of Upstock, Inc., a worker equity management as a service online platform. Fenton created the online social hospitality network, the Couchsurfing Project which he began working on in 1999. Couchsurfing currently has over 15 million members worldwide.

Fireside chat with Elba Horta, co-founder Puro.earth. Elba is ‘a geoscientist turned Silicon Valley startup techie turned evangelist for the climate crisis at  Finland-based Puro.earth, a marketplace for carbon removal that’s aiming to accelerate the development of emerging carbon net-negative companies by verifying the net negative impact of these companies, and connecting them with corporations seeking to reach Net Zero targets.

Fireside chat with Kendrick Nguyen, Co-Founder and CEO of Republic.co, an investment platform connecting tech startups and blockchain projects with global investors. Prior to Republic, he served as general counsel of AngelList and Fellow of Stanford University’s Center for Corporate Governance. He is a founding adviser to NOW Ventures and CoinList, an ICO platform. An immigrant from Vietnam, Kendrick has a strong interest in improving access to capital for underserved entrepreneurs in the US and beyond.