Startup Grind

Fireside chat with SC Moatti, the managing partner of Mighty Capital, a Silicon Valley venture capital firm, and Products That Count, one of the largest and undoubtedly the most influential network of product managers in the world. Previously, she built products that billions of people use at Facebook, Nokia and Electronic Arts. A former Facebook product leader, now also lectures at Stanford Graduate School of Business, where she earned her MBA.

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Fireside chat with Oliver Percovich, founder of Skateistan - an award-winning international non-profit organization which empowers children through skateboarding and education in Afghanistan, Cambodia, and South Africa.

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Fireside chat with Ben Branson, the Founder of Seedlip and Æcorn Drinks, the world’s first distilled non-alcoholic spirits and aperitifs. He is also widely acknowledged as starting and leading the ever-growing low and no spirits movement globally.

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In our Fireside chat with Brad Feld, an American entrepreneur, author, blogger, venture capitalist at Foundry Group and co-founder of TechStars we discuss something near and dear to our hearts: entrepreneurial communities. What makes startup communities thrive and how to improve collaboration in these rapidly evolving, complex environments.

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Fireside chat with Alexander Dreiling, CEO and Co-founder at Clipchamp.

A unique video solution, giving its users a fast and simple way to collect, upload and share user-generated video content. The browser-based technology makes the process of collecting videos up to 20 times faster than traditional methods – all of this without any impact on quality.

At Clipchamp he oversees the launch of several products, the growth of Clipchamp’s platform to more than 10 million registered users, and secured funding in excess of US$11m from a variety of sources

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Fireside chat with Eric Crane, the Co-founder and COO at Flatfile, whose mission is to remove barriers between humans and their data. Hundreds of enterprises use Flatfile products to aggregate, import, and normalize data from disparate and variant sources.

In this episode, Alex Gordon-Furse ( our VP of Sales + Startups) interviews Eric Crane, co-founder and COO of Flatfile, whose mission is to remove barriers between humans and their data. Hundreds of enterprises use Flatfile products to aggregate, import, and normalize data from disparate and variant sources. Previously, Eric was the first product lead at Envoy, whose workplace products help thousands of companies create delightful and welcoming office experiences.

The subject of this interview is 'Designing a fundraise: lessons from Flatfile's first two investment rounds'. Expect to learn how Eric and his co-founder David Boskovic designed a fundraising strategy that enabled them to raise a $7.6M seed round in less than a month.

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Fireside chat with Maximilian Tayenthal, co-founder and CFO of N26.

Together with his business partner and friend Valentin Stalf, he built one of the first and now fastest-growing mobile banks in Europe. Their vision is to create a retail bank that's flexible, transparent and speaks to today's digital lifestyles.

Rana el Kaliouby, chief executive officer and co-founder of Affectiva, an MIT Media Lab spin-off, that created and defined the Emotion AI category and is on a mission to bring emotional intelligence to our digital experiences. Their technology is fueled using one of the world’s largest emotion databases of 5+ billion frames captured from 10+ million faces in 90 countries. The company’s platform is used by 25% of Fortune Global 100 companies and 1,400+ brands to measure consumer engagement, and is pioneering emotion-enabled digital apps for enterprise, entertainment, video communication and online education.

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Fireside chat with Amy Pressman, Co-founder of Medallia talking about Industry Best Practices in Customer Experience.

Amy initially developed the idea for Medallia as a consultant for the Boston Consulting Group while working on marketing strategy and competitive benchmarking projects. Serving BCG clients, she discovered a near-universal mandate for better understanding of current and prospective customers as well as competitors.

Amy has also worked as an independent consultant for technology-based companies in Silicon Valley, an investment banker at Goldman Sachs, and a legislative aide on Capitol Hill.

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Fireside chat with Howie Liu, co-founder and CEO of Airtable, democratizing software creation. In this conversation he talks about "Building A $1B Software Giant Emphasizing Substance Over Speed".

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