Ben Jabbawy is the Founder of Privy, a suite of tools designed to help marketers and ecommerce businesses increase their marketing conversions.Ben has a background in Industrial Engineering, but moved into a few technical roles, before really diving into startups.Ben joins us to share his story, how he got into sta... more
Kimberly Kalb is the Head of Marketing & Growth at Houseparty, an app that takes the group chat to the next level with group video chat.Kimberly has a background in entertainment media technology, having worked with brands like NBCUniversal, HBO, Tumblr Entertainment and now Houseparty.There her role has really gro... more
Josh Brewer is the Co-founder & CEO of Abstract, a platform for modern design teams to work together.Josh’s career in design started off with teaching - but quickly lead to him diving into the emerging web and mobile product design industry. He eventually joined Twitter where he became a Principal Designer.Josh joi... more
Ben Pines is the CMO of Elementor, the most advanced Drag & Drop page builder for WordPress. Design beautiful professional websites faster and without code.Ben shares what it’s been like building an open source, visual, drag & drop theme editor for Wordpress - and the challenges in scaling it to over 800,000 active i... more
Waqas Ali is the co-founder of Atoms, one & only shoe for every day.Waqas started building a startups and businesses after discovering the internet and realizing you could sell products online. While there were a ton of insurmountable challenges, Waqas and his co founder Sidra persevered - launching a custom dress ... more
Vibhu Norby is the co-founder & CEO of B8ta, a new store designed for discovering, trying, & buying the latest tech products, as well as a new platform called “Built by B8ta”, which aims to power the future of physical retail experiences.Vibhu moved to silicon valley after college to join a startup. He was eventually... more
Sam Mallikarjunan is an Executive Strategist at HubSpot.He hustled his way into the organization with a landing page and ads - and ended up leading the Experimental Marketing team, the Ecommerce Marketing team, the South American internationalization team, Hubspot Labs and more.Today, Sam also teaches Digital Marke... more
Asher Hunt is the Founder & CEO of Overnight, a platform to book homes from people you trust.Asher comes from a visual arts and music background, but got into tech through product design and is driven by a passion for learning. He was Product Designer at Chill, a viral video sharing platform, and then he launched a... more
Sonja Jacob is the Content Strategy Team Lead at Drift.Sonja kicked off her career in marketing by blogging years back. She quickly realized the power of content and decided to launch her own business as a copywriter and marketing freelancer.Over the years, Sonja helped create or lead marketing and content efforts ... more
Mari Sheibley is a Product Designer at Instagram.Mari has a background in fine arts, before she transition into graphic design. When she first moved to New York, she took a bunch of odd jobs to make ends meet. She eventually met Denis Crowley and Naveen, who were working on an idea that would become Foursquare. Mar... more
Hannah Donovan is the CEO & Co-founder of Trash, a new startup that’s currently building a predictive video editing platform for creators.Hannah’s passion for media and design in all forms goes back to her early childhood.She eventually moved to New York before using the remainder of her savings to fly to the UK to... more
Matt Hollingshead is the CEO of Hifyre, a web & mobile app developer based on Hamilton, Canada.Back in 1999, Matt and some friends launched their first agency called factor[e] which ended up generation $1M in sales within its first 24 months.Today Matt is the CEO of Hifyre, a web & mobile development shop that’s w... more
Casey Winters is the Growth Advisor in Residence at Greylock Partners.Casey got interested in growth via his background in marketing and his holistic approach to helping Apartments.com achieve quick growth from 2005-2008.He then joined GrubHub around the 15 person mark, and helped the company scale from 40,000 user... more
Joei Chan is a Content Marketing Manager, at Mention, a platform for real-time media monitoring.Joei is originally from Hong Kong and moved to Paris, France for a summer to study French. She ended up staying and building a career as a Content Marketer.After starting her career in the agency world, Joei moved over t... more
Gessica Bicego is the Head of Performance Marketing, at Blinkist, the platform for bite-sized insights in audio or text.Gessica is originally from Italy and has a background in computer science, as well as a passion for marketing. She then wanted to accelerate her career and moved to Berlin to join Kayak as a Program... more
Jordan Scheltgen is the co-founder and Managing Partner at CaveSocial, a marketing agency that he started during University and that now spans across 3 major North American cities.Originally from Surrey, BC, Jordan moved to Toronto for school and football. Through that experience, Jordan started a blog which would la... more
Jonah Lupton is the founder of SoundGuard, the world’s first sound proof paint.Jonah has spent the better part of the last 10 years launching several brands across completely different industries. From social media software, to non-profit funding platforms, to white labeled supplement companies, to industrial manuf... more
Jess Brown is the Director of UX at Vice Media.She’s spent the past couple of years building the team that’s lead the company’s efforts on re-designing Vice’s brand from the ground up - across the web and all mobile properties.But before joining Vice, Jess was based in San Francisco working on a fashion startup of ... more
Tom Levesque is the Co-founder at Rey.ai.Tom is a Software Developer turned Product Manager. After graduating and working with a local startup in Waterloo, Tom decided to move to the valley where he ended up joining Wildfire before it was acquired by Google.Before he’d even graduated as a Software Developer from th... more
Oscar Falmer is the Founder and developer behind the world’s first augmented reality Twitter client - TweetReality.Oscar is only a few months away from graduating from the University of Eastern-Paris Marne-La-Vallee with a degree in Computer Science and Mathematics. TweetReality is the 7th app he’s released to the Ap... more
Amir Shevat is the Director of Developer Relations at Slack.Amir originally fell into Developer Relations by mistake, volunteering to work with a community of developers early on in his career. He’s since led Developer Groups at Microsoft & Google for many years before joining Slack to focus on driving growth around ... more
Brian Balfour is the Founder & CEO of Reforge, an organization that offers selective growth-focused programs for experienced professionals in marketing, product, data, and engineering. Brian was previously the VP of Growth at Hubspot and an EIR at Trinity Ventures before that.Brian has raised over $30M in venture fun... more
Lydia White is a Design Lead at Beme, an independent, and wildly ambitious technology+media company bringing a wider range of perspectives to the news that was cofounded by YouTuber Casey Neistat & Matt Hackett.Lydia started her design career with an academic background in fine art and photography, but growing up she... more
Michael Karnjanaprakorn is the Co-founder and Executive Chairman at Skillshare.Michael has always had a passion and love for education and learning. His career in tech began as an outsider looking to prove himself. And so he ended up taking a pay cut to move to New York and join Scott Belsky at Behance with two thing... more
Stephanie Engle is a Product Designer at Cruise.Before joining the team there, Stephanie had a background in social products, starting her career off as an intern for the anonymous messaging app Secret, before joining Facebook to work on the Profile, and later joining the VR team.Stephanie recently joined Cruise as... more