Startup Grind

A Fireside chat with Morgan DeBaun, Founder + CEO of Blavity Inc., talking about How to Build Trust in the Era of Fake News.

She graduated top of her class and served as the youngest student body president elected at Washington University in St. Louis. She launched Blavity in 2014, and the media company has since acquired Travel Noire, a travel platform for black millennials and Shadow And Act, a black entertainment news site.

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Fireside chat with Ryan Smith, the CEO of Qualtrics, an online survey software company. Smith started the company with his father and brother, in his parent’s basement back in 2002. He bootstrapped the firm for 10 years before seeking venture capital funding. Today, Qualtrics is valued at $1 billion, making it a “unicorn.” That’s Silicon Valley speak for companies deemed to be worth $1 billion or more. Qualtrics is used by more than 8,000 enterprise businesses (including half of the Fortune 100 companies), as well as by universities around the globe.

Here Smith shares his experiences during his journey of success.

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Fireside chat with Scott Belsky, Chief Product Officer - Adobe and Executive Vice President, Creative Cloud.

Scott Belsky is an American entrepreneur, author and early-stage investor best known for co-creating the online portfolio platform, Behance, Inc. (2006). He served as its CEO until Adobe acquired Behance in 2012.

He is also the author of the author of the international bestselling books Making Ideas Happen (Portfolio Imprint, Penguin Books, Apr, 2010), and The Messy Middle (Portfolio Imprint, Penguin Books, Oct, 2018).

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Fireside chat with Chris Saad – Co-founder of the DataPortability Project. Former Head of Product @ Uber Developer Platform. Product & Startup Builder. Serial Entrepreneur. Strategic Advisor. Angel Investor. Podcaster. Aussie living in both San Francisco & Brisbane. Supercharging companies around the world.

Chris is also the writer of the book called "Leadership Lens", which he describes as "The playbook for being an intentional and impactful leader".

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Fireside chat with Debbie Wall EVP, the Sage Foundation, one of the largest corporate foundations globally. It is the corporate philanthropic division of Sage – the UK’s largest tech firm with 12,000 employees serving over three million customers across 23 countries worldwide.

Debbie is championing an approach called ‘action philanthropy’ – which is based on corporations maximizing their ‘people capital’ and empowering employees to support their local communities to have the greatest possible social impact.

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Fireside chat with Lucy Liu, President and Co-founder Airwallex, a service that lets companies manage cross-border revenue and financing and inspires global opportunities.

Lucy is the youngest female founder of a unicorn company that is taking over the globe. She is responsible for the company's mainstream operations.

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Fireside chat with Dr. Alexander (Alex) Osterwalder, one of the world’s most influential strategy and innovation experts, a leading author, entrepreneur and in-demand speaker. Here he talks about his new book, "The Invincible Company".

Interviewed by Startup grind's Chris Joannou.

Fireside chat with Pete Newell, CEO of BMNT, an innovation consultancy and early-stage technology incubator that helps solve some of the hardest real-world problems in national security, state and local governments, and beyond.

Pete is also a founder and co-author, with Lean Startup founder Steve Blank, of Hacking for Defense (H4D)®, an academic program taught at 22+ universities.

He is a Board Member for Solace Power, a wireless power technology company.

He has also served as the Director of the US Army’s Rapid Equipping Force (REF).

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Fireside chat with Jennifer Hyman, CEO and co-founder of Rent the Runway, a fashion company with a technology soul that is disrupting the way women get dressed.

She co-founded Rent the Runway in 2009 with Jennifer Fleiss, and has since raised over $525 million in capital, growing the business to over 11 million members and a valuation of $1 billion.

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Fireside chat with Mike Chaffin co-founder and president of "Three Commas", co-founder and partner "Derrty Ventures".

In early 2015, Mike Chaffin and Mark Cuban co-launched the THREE COMMAS apparel line, a concept derived by Mark Cuban based on the fact that there are 3 commas in a billion dollars. The line is the first developed for the aspiring entrepreneur.

The money is not what it's about, they say. It is about the entrepreneur - from the place where the dream began, to where the dream becomes a reality. Three Commas is about the journey and seeks to encourage people to achieve their goals, pursuing the American Dream.