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Hackers vs Founders. Engineering vs Biz/Dev. Geeks vs Suits. Everyone in Silicon Valley knows who wins that fight, right? Or do we?
Why can't we all get along and help each other out? We have a group of CS and MBA students from Harvard, so we invited a group of Tech All Stars to talk about it.
Ben Horowitz is managing partner at Andreessen Horowitz, and he's been a Founder / VP / Exec at Netscape, HP, AOL, Opsware and Lotus. He also writes a great blog.
Ben's going to do a fireside chat with one of the top entrepreneurship professors in the country, Tom Eisenmann.
Cheryl Kellond gave me the best startup pitch I've heard in years. She's the founder of Bia-sport. She's been VP / Exec at Yahoo, Adobe, Nec and eTrade, she competes in Triathalons and is a mother of four.
Manish Patel studied Art, Engineering and Economics at Stanford. Manish is a VC at Highland Capital. Before that, Manish worked as an Exec at Google for years, deeply involved in Adsense, Adwords, Maps, 3D and he was Chief of Staff for Larry Page. Did I mentioned he's had cartoons published in the New Yorker?
John Berkley has been CEO, VP, EIR, Director / PM at TeaLeaf, Oracle, RevCube and others. He's got a background in Political Science and a Harvard MBA with Distinction. John is currently SVP at Responsys, which just IPO'd 9 month ago.
Elad Gil is currently Director of Corporate Strategy at Twitter. In previous lives he was a co-founder / CEO of Mixer Labs, Townme, and GeoAPI.com. He was also an exec at Google and took part in the Android acquisition. He's an angel investor, and also has a Phd in Molecular Biology.
Why such a bonanza of wisdom and speaking talent?
In honor of a group of special guests visiting us from Harvard University.
http://www.hackersandfounders.com/events/45681972/