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Startup Grind is the world’s largest community of startups, founders, innovators, and creators. We bring like-minded yet diverse individuals together to connect, learn, teach, help, build, and belong. We do this daily through our local events, flagship conferences, startup program, partnerships, and online media + content - collectively reaching over 3.5 million individuals worldwide.
Sid is the Co-founder of Circle. He immigrated to the US with the goal of building his company. After building Teachable as a founding engineer & VP of product, he decided to take the risk of leaving the job & hack on different ideas.
Sid's journey is incredible - it's a classic "American Dream" story.
We talk about his background, the big decisions he had to make & how he tackled different problems he faced on the journey. I felt so inspired after this conversation, I'm sure it'll inspire you too!
Specially if you're someone who's thinking about doing something of your own - I'd highly recommend hearing his story!
Longevity is one of the most interesting topics I've been curious about. Alex is the cofounder of Age1 - they catalyze contrarian, founder-led companies that will increase healthy human lifespan, yielding the most valuable companies to ever exist.
Through their investments, they strive for counterfactual impact. They are creating a future where all people have agency over how long they live in good health.
Our vision is to make aging and age-related disease optional for all.
Job is the founder of Remote - Remote is one of the best platforms to manage payments, compliance and a lot more for globally distributed teams. Remote was founded in 2019 & has scaled to a $3B+ valuation in just a few years.
In this interview, we'll chat about Job's experiences of what goes into building a large company, remotely.
Meet Zain, he embarked on his entrepreneurial journey at just 14 years old during the internet's explosive growth. His company Vungle ended up being acquired by Brackstone for a whooping $750M in 2019.
We chat about the challenges in early days of his journey as a founder, access to capital in the US as an immigrant & his relationship with money post acquisition. I loved getting these insights & I'm sure you will too :)
Fireside chat with Sid Mofya, who serves as COO and Executive Director at the Draper Venture Network, a one-of-a-kind alliance of twenty-four independent venture firms spreading across the world’s key technology innovation centers and the world’s largest economies.
All these unique firms are joined together as part of the Draper Venture Network’s mission to unify entrepreneurial hotspots around the world.
Fireside chat with Elad Gil, a serial entrepreneur, operating executive, and investor or advisor to private companies including AirBnB, Pinterest, Square, and Stripe. Previously, Elad was the VP of corporate strategy at Twitter, as well as ran various product teams.
Fireside chat with Vlad Magdalin, Founder and CEO Webflow.
Webflow empowers web designers to build professional, responsive, and custom websites in a completely visual canvas with no code.
Fireside chat with Thai Son, Partner and CEO SmartOSC, a full-service e-commerce agency for leading brands. Thai Son went from helping his parents at a corner store in Havana to scaling a global tech business from zero to more than 600 people, achieving a constant 50%+ YoY growth.
Fireside chat with Henry Ward the CEO and co-founder of Carta, a company that continues to revolutionize the way founders, investors, and employees manage equity and ownership.
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 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.
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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Startup Grind is the world’s largest community of startups, founders, innovators, and creators. We bring like-minded yet diverse individuals together to connect, learn, teach, help, build, and belong. We do this daily through our local events, flagship conferences, startup program, partnerships, and online media + content - collectively reaching over 3.5 million individuals worldwide.