Nov26

Vinod Khosla: Ageism, women entrepreneurs & failure

Vinod Khosla, Khosla Ventures spoke @FailCon in October. Cathy Brooks moderated the session. Many thanks to Cathy for responding to my raised eyebrows & distress from the audience, to allow me to refute what Vinod was saying ...

May29

Discussion Venture Capital

Panel: Success, Failure & Being a Mom #TIECon

Pemo Theodore

Moderator: Suzanne Saunders Shaw, NBC; Speakers: Catherine Lego, Lego Ventures; Kindra Tatarsky, VP Astia Silicon Valley; Mona DeFrawi, CEO Equidity; Radha Ramaswami Basu, Founder Anudip Foundation; Raji Arasu, VP Technology ebay Marketplace

May26

Discussion Venture Capital

Drew Houston Dropbox #TIECon

Pemo Theodore

Drew Houston was a Keynote speaker @TIE Conference 2011 Drew is the Founder & CEO of Dropbox. Drew graduated from MIT and wrote the first lines of code for Dropbox while at a train station in Boston. These days he’s usually out and about...

May24

Discussion Venture Capital

Vinod Khosla: Energy Transformation #TIECon

Pemo Theodore

Vinod Khosla, Founder Khosla Ventures

May19

Discussion Venture Capital

Mashup TIE Conference 2011 #TIECon

Pemo Theodore

Kindra Tatarsky, Vice President, ASTIA Silicon Valley; Cathy Lego, Founder Lego Ventures, Vinod Khosla, Founder Khosla Ventures;Drew Houston, Founder Dropbox; Salman Khan, Founder Khan Academy & some great Indian dancers.

FinTech Silicon Valley

FinTech Silicon Valley podcasts are focused on educating and highlighting FinTech in Silicon Valley to the global community both through video and audio. These podcasts are short and fun, one on one interviews by FinTech Silicon Valley journalists with experts and investors on how they are contributing to the community and what their perspective is on the future of FinTech.

Michael Fanfant is a Palo Alto-based General Partner at Runa Capital. He looks for early stage startups with solutions across B2B SaaS and regulated industries like fintech, edutech and digital health. Michael joined Runa in 2017 after co-founding Octane Lending, where he was also COO. He serves on the board of Octane Lending, which was valued at more than $900 million during its Series D round in 2021.