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Friday, May 20 2016 – 11:30AM to 7:00PM
680 Folsom Street, San Francisco, CA 94107
We were at Microsoft Reactor for a live TWiST podcast episode: “Eric Ries on Startup Success in 2016”
The popular online show This Week in Startups was live in San Francisco! Jason Calacanis hosted Eric Ries, Entrepreneur and Author of “The Lean Startup,” for a fireside chat Friday May 20, 2016.
events agenda
11:30AM-1:30PM
Registration opens for TWiST Live event & public office hours with Jason Calacanis (*come early for a chance to “Ask Jason” or pitch on stage!*)
1:30PM-2:30PM
Public Office Hours with Jason Calacanis (“Ask Jason” – Shark Tank)
2:30PM-4:00PM
The Future and Opportunity of AI & Bots: Amir Shevat, Director of Developer Relation at Slack & Vikram Dendi, Strategy Director at MSR
4:00PM-5:00PM
Cocktails and Networking
5:00PM-6:00PM
Fireside Chat with Jason Calacanis and Eric Ries
6:00PM-7:00PM
Cocktails and Networking
Jason Calacanis is an angel investor in 150 startups, including the first round of Uber, Thumbtack, and Chartbeat. He is founder and CEO of LAUNCH, which produces events such as the annual LAUNCH Festival (the largest startup conference in the world with 15,000+ attendees), publishes the LAUNCH Ticker, and hosts the LAUNCH Incubator. Since 2009, Jason has hosted This Week in Startups, a twice-weekly podcast on technology and entrepreneurship with an audience of 150,000+. Recent guests include Peter Thiel, Reid Hoffman, Tim Ferriss, Kara Swisher, Chris Sacca, Daniel Ek, Ann Winblad, Esther Dyson, and many more. Calacanis is also the CEO of Inside.com / Inside Daily Brief, and a bi-weekly commentator on CNBC’s Squawk Alley. His thought-pieces can be read on calacanis.com.
Eric Ries is an entrepreneur and author of the New York Times bestseller The Lean Startup: How Today’s Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Business. While an undergraduate at Yale University, he co-founded Catalyst Recruiting. Ries continued his entrepreneurial career as a Senior Software Engineer at There.com, leading efforts in agile software development and user-generated content. He later co-founded and served as CTO of IMVU, his third startup. In 2010, he was named EIR at Harvard Business School and is currently an IDEO Fellow. The Lean Startup methodology has been written about in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Harvard Business Review, Inc., Wired, Fast Company, and countless blogs.
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TWiST – Talking AI and Bots
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