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I met Sahil Jain as a sophomore at Berkley in 2009. I was on a gaming panel for EA at the business school, and after the event a skinny young kid tried to convince me why EA should hire him. I'm pretty sure I laughed at him. What a difference three years makes.
Now Sahil is a co-founder of YC funded Trigger.io which is a framework that helps you develop apps across all mobile platforms. A couple of weeks ago they presented on stage at Launch Conference. I had a minute to catch up with him and get his pitch. Check it out below.
For the past 15 years Derek has been building communities. He is the co-founder/CEO of Bevy, a SaaS product that helps companies like Salesforce, Atlassian, Google, Snowflake, and Adobe build virtual and in-person communities. Bevy has raised $60M from Accel, Upfront Ventures, and others. He co-founded Startup Grind, a community of 600 Chapters in 125 countries educating, inspiring, and connecting startup people. Since 2012 Startup Grind has hosted 20,000 events. In 2010 he co-founded Commonred which was acquired by Income.com. Derek also previously worked as a product manager at Electronic Arts. He currently lives in Palo Alto CA with his wife and four children.
I met Sahil Jain as a sophomore at Berkley in 2009. I was on a gaming panel for EA at the business school, and after the event a skinny young kid tried to convince me why EA should hire him. I'm pretty sure I laughed at him. What a difference three years makes.