For Top Founders @ Berkeley & Stanford
Confirmed Speakers
Founders:
Alex Mashrabov (Founder & CEO at Higgsfield AI)
Jared Quincy Davis (Founder & CEO at Foundry)
Michele Catasta (President at Replit)
Investors:
Barry Eggers (Co-Founder of Lightspeed Venture Partners)
Shuo Chen (General Partner of IOVC)
Operators:
Arvind KC (Chief People and Systems Officer at Roblox)
Mark Settle (Former CIO at Okta)
Tony Jebara (Head of AI/ML at Spotify)
Board members:
Esther Wojcicki (Godmother of Silicon Valley)
Keith Enright (former Chief Privacy Officer at Google)
Why attend? (First round of roundtable & dinner applications close on Aug 30 - Apply in ticket registration with no additional cost)
💬 Learn from intimate roundtable discussions with speaker
🍽️ Join an invite-only dinner with founders and advisors
💡 Demo your product to top-tier investors
Success Stories
Past attendees have ...
Successfully raised pre-seed, seed and series A rounds from top tier investors they met through Decode roundtables and dinners, including a16z, Sequoia and Y Combinator
Found advisors and mentors to help 10x growth in their startups through Decode speakers, including experts from Apple, Google and Microsoft
Identified co-founders and early hires for their startups through Decode community members, representing Databricks ($62bn valuation), Agora (IPO) and FlowGPT (Series A)
What are roundtables?
10-15 pax breakout sessions with panelists
Held immediately after each panel session
Invite-only according to preferences and application submitted in your ticket registration
We will reach out separately to confirm your session and gather your bio to share with panelists beforehand.
What is the dinner?
For founders attending our conference and working on/already have your MVP, apply to attend a post-conference private dinner with other founders, speakers and advisors in your registration.
We will reach out separately to confirm your spot and gather your bio to share with other dinner attendees beforehand.
Important Note
We have a packed day and will be starting promptly at 12:50pm as some speakers have hard stops. A number of speakers are coming at 12:00pm and we highly encourage everyone to come earlier to meet them!
Please have something to eat before our conference. Due to food waste generation policies at the David Brower Center, we are unfortunately unable to provide food for all attendees while keeping ticket prices reasonable.
Also note that there should be no food and drinks consumption in the main theatre. Food and drinks can be consumed at the gallery area or in the roundtable rooms.
About DECODE
Decode is the largest founder community with roots from Berkeley and Stanford.
As a 501(c)3 non-profit, our mission is to help students and alumni transform their part-time projects into full-time startups.
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