Fireside Chat with Merci Victoria Grace & OD50 + ODC

​We're honored and excited to feature Merci Victoria Grace at this Fireside Chat event.

​Merci was most recently a Partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners, and before that was Head of Growth at Slack. While at Slack, she was named one of Fast Company's Most Creative People in Business, grew the growth team to over 50 people, and drove DAU’s from 500K to 5M in under 2 years. Merci is also the Founder of Women In Product, a global community of incredible women in product management.

​Merci will talk about:

• ​Her background from founder to senior startup leader to investor

• ​Her roots in game design and how she's applied those learnings to marketplaces and B2B SaaS

• ​How she drove growth of Slack as an early employee

• ​The value of being a generalist

• ​Best practices for hiring great Product talent

• ​Perspectives on increasing diversity and inclusion in tech

• ​& more!

​Join us for this interactive Zoom event and add questions to Slido here before we begin: https://app.sli.do/event/vlusjact

​This event is in collaboration with 2 On Deck Fellowship programs:

• ​OD50 (the On Deck First 50 Fellowship) is an 8-week program for operators who want to find their next roles at world-changing companies. We combine a next-level curriculum, proprietary access to breakout startups, and a community of incredible peers to help you accelerate your career.

• ​ODC (On Deck Catalyst) is a 10-week program for ambitious people early in their tech careers who want to solve the world’s most pressing problems and take an unconventional path to building their career.