RARE EVENT: Randy Adams- former Yahoo Board Member & CoFounder with Will Ferrell

Join us for our Speaker Series & Networking Event for an extremely rare talk by uber successful entrepreneur Randy Adams. Throughout his entrepreneurial career Randy has started and sold many companies, raising over $250 million in venture capital from VC’s such as Sequoia, DFJ, Softbank among others, and generating over $28 billion in returns to investors.

Many know of Randy as an early Board member of Yahoo, helping Jerry Yang and David Filo to secure their initial funding for Yahoo from Sequoia Capital. But what you might not know is Randy also managed the team which invented Adobe Acrobat and the PDF. He was also employee #15 at NeXT Inc. working directly with Steve Jobs and has lots of “Steve Stories.” And, Randy also cofounded the Emmy award winning site FunnyOrDie with comedian Will Ferrell.

So join us for this extremely rare talk by such a unique entrepreneur.

If you are a startup or entrepreneur, this is a talk you do not want to miss!

Agenda

6:00pm – 6:45pm – Dinner and networking, demo/sponsor tables
6:45pm – 7:00pm – Intros, demo/sponsor tables mentions
7:00pm – 8:30pm – Speakers program and Q&A
8:30pm – 9:00pm – Meet the speaker, networking

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Date:

Wednesday, 08/11/2016

Time:

6:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.

Location:

Founders Floor

2 North 1st St., 5th Floor

San Jose, CA 95113

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Discussion Topics

Andrew will give invaluable advice about how to best raise capital from CVCs, build partnerships between startups and large corporations and how to avoid potential mistakes and other dangers related to corporate venture capital.

Also, Andrew will share findings from his research and experience on why and how corporates should establish CVCs.

Speaker

RANDY ADAMS

serial entrepreneur

Randy Adams is a serial entrepreneur who has founded eight venture-backed technology companies in Silicon Valley and Hollywood.

Randy has raised more than $250 million in venture capital and returned more than $2 billion to investors.

He has served as Board Director at Yahoo, Co-founder and Board Director at FunnyOrDie.com (with Will Ferrell), Co-founder and CEO at WTF Studios (with Marlon Wayans), President of the Home Shopping Network (Internet Division), Director of Engineering at Adobe Systems and Lead Designer at Steve Job’s NeXT.

Some of his notable accomplishments include:

– the invention of the first desktop publishing application for the PC

– the invention of PDF and Acrobat while the Director of Software Engineering at Adobe Systems

– development of the Objective C toolbox at NeXT as one of the original NeXT software team member

– the creation of the world’s first e-commerce website and the development of it into the first acquisition by Barry Diller in what was to become IAC

– served on the Board of Directors for Yahoo

– cofounding and serving on the Board of Directors of FunnyOrDie.com (with comedian Will Ferrell)

– cofounding and serving as CEO of Marlon Wayans’ WhatTheFunny.com

Randy has a degree in Electrical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Free street parking

Abundant street parking is available for free after 6:00 p.m. in downtown San Jose. Streets closest to Founders Floor with free street parking are Santa Clara St., North Market St. and St. John St.

Free parking garage

Founders Floor will provide a 2 hour free parking voucher to the Market & San Pedro Square Parking Garage. This garage is only one block away from Founders Floor. It’s located at 45 N. Market St., between W. Santa Clara St. and W. St. John St. Upon check-in at the Founders Floor event, make sure you ask for the 2 hour free parking voucher.

Public transportation

VTA Light Rail is right outside our building, and runs every 20 minutes making public transportation fast and easy. 　Both the Mountain View-Winchester and the Alum Rock-Santa Teresa VTA light rail stop at the Santa Clara Station(s) which is located just a block away.

Refund Policy

You may request a refund up to 48 hours before the event. Unfortunately, any refunds requested less than 48 hours before the event cannot be honored. Thank you for your understanding.

Disclaimer

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