In partnership with Stripe, we’re hosting an opening night gathering for founders and local investors who are at the forefront of SaaS, ecommerce, and fintech.
Join us for great conversations at a rooftop bar in NoMad to kick off your Founder’s Week experience. Doors open at 5:00 p.m.
Location: MADE Hotel | RSVP
Join Grammy-nominated recording artist Jidenna Mobisson for a conversation on building and creating from his time as a Stanford student to his journey as a certified platinum star to the world of digital entertainment and Web3. Learn from the journey in this dinner experience paired with a Michelin quality chef.
NY Times featured curator and product designer Nathan Langston took the childhood game of telephone and created a worldwide collaboration with hundreds of artists. Learn about the experience and participate in the "game" in this interactive dinner experience paired with a Michelin quality chef.
Two-time Survivor contestant Francesca Hogi helps people find love and design their best lives as a coach and entrepreneur. Join her for an interactive dinner experience where you'll learn more about her journey from lawyer to reality star to entrepreneur and dive deep into your own human design and how you can use it to power your success as a founder and leader.
Join serial entrepreneur, investor, and high-growth product-builder David Cancel, in conversation with Flybridge partner Jeff Bussgang as he shares the real-life road to building a unicorn from his direct experience as a founder and early employee at Drift, Hubspot, Ghostery, Compete, and Performery.
Join Grant Ebenger (Tiger Global), Eric Berry (Triple Lift), Demetri Karagas (Thirty Madison), and Mike Baker (DataXu) in a conversation geared towards later-stage companies looking to take the next leap and those considering M&A as a next step moderated by Flybridge partner Jeff Bussgang.
Join Ben Foster (ex-CPO Whoop, Opower), Lou Shipley (HBS Prof, ex-CEO Black Duck), and Justin Dignelli (Pace) in a conversation on driving growth, acquiring customers, and building repeatable and sustainable sales cycles geared towards B2B companies moderated by Flybridge partner Chip Hazard.
Join Zach Sims (Code Academy), Zach Shefska (CarEdge), Anada Lakra (BoldVoice), and Azza El-Sheikh (HEIR) for a conversation focused on tactical and strategic pathways to consumer company growth from product marketing to content-creation to community-centric approaches moderated by Flybridge partner Anna Palmer.
Join Rockman Ha (Patreon), Dan Zaccagnino (Splice), and Donna Scarola (Parcl) for a deep-dive into hiring and scaling your early team. From processes to key nuggets on culture, hear from founders and experts on how to hire the people that drive growth, success, and cohesion at your company, moderated by Flybridge partner Chip Hazard.
As a founder, you feel like you need to have all the answers. The truth is, you don’t. In fact, focusing on answers is the Achilles’ heel that holds good founders back from becoming great ones. In this session, Anita Hossain and Rei Wang, Co-founders of The Grand, will share their insights from coaching hundreds of early-stage founders. They'll teach you one of the most effective and under-used management skills: coaching. You’ll learn tactics you can put into practice immediately to bring out your team’s best work.
Our very own Jeff Bussgang – also a professor at Harvard Business School – will join Squire Founder and CEO Songe LaRon and lead us in a case discussion of this vertical SaaS start-up for barbershops on its' way to Unicorn status.
HBS cases are taught to MBAs and executives as a way to explore high impact situations and place students in the role of the decision-maker – in this case, the Squire founders. The case method is the art of managing uncertainty and allows participants to study another situation with objectivity and then derive lessons for themselves.
Squire’s situation is one many of you can relate to: (1) initial skepticism of their TAM; (2) initial skepticism of their business model and unit economics; and (3) just as they’re getting traction, COVID-19 hits and their end users are forced to shut down.
Should the founders adjust their business model to meet the needs of their customers or respond to the feedback from their investors?
Join Mada Seghete (Branch), Debbie Millin (Globalization Partners), and Neda Nevab (Compass) for a deep-dive into what it takes to scale a company to a billion dollar value. With tactical and strategic insights from founders who've done it - you won't want to miss this conversation led by Flybridge partner Anna Palmer.
For our closing session Flybridge partner Chip Hazard is in conversation with serial entrepreneur, investor, and MongoDB CEO Dev Ittycheria sharing lessons, tactics, and guidance on leading and building a company today.
The Afterparty! powered by Hunt Club
In Depth Agenda: October 13th
The Fundraising Intensive powered by
Shoobx + KPMG and "We Fly High": A Female Founder's Breakfast
"We Fly High" Female Founders Breakfast hosted by XFactor Ventures and powered by First Republic Bank
For pre-seed or pre-raise founders looking to raise a seed round get the inside scoop from some of the top investors in the ecosystem including Micah Rosenbloom (Founder Collective), Aubrie Pagano (Alpaca) and Melody Koh (NextView) moderated by Flybridge partner Jesse Middleton.
For seed stage founders looking to raise a series A or extension get the inside scoop from some of the top investors in the ecosystem including Alexa von Tobel (Inspired Capital), Justin Overdorff (Lightspeed) and Jason Black (RRE) in a panel moderated by Flybridge partner Jeff Bussgang.
We are taking every possible health precaution to keep you safe should you join us in-person. We want to take every measure to protect against emergent strains or a failure to develop immune responses to Covid-19.
COVID-19 testing ahead of arrival is strongly encouraged.
If your health status changes, you can always modify your RSVP via your confirmation or reminder emails.
