Sep 30, 2025, 10:00 PM – Oct 1, 2025, 12:00 AM (UTC)
CODE/+/TRUST, 665 Johnnie Dodds Boulevard, Mount Pleasant, 29464
After raising $23M from a16z, Balaji Srinivasan, and others for his hacker-house-turned-venture-fund, Michael Houck has built a 300,000+ person audience and bootstrapped a personal holding company to $3M in revenue. He's an early investor in startups like Figure.ai and Beehiiv who started his career as part of the early team that built Uber Eats, and a product manager at Airbnb.
After raising $23M from a16z, Balaji Srinivasan, and others for his hacker-house-turned-venture-fund, Michael Houck has built a 300,000+ person audience and bootstrapped a personal holding company to $3M in revenue. He's an early investor in startups like Figure.ai and Beehiiv who started his career as part of the early team that built Uber Eats, and a product manager at Airbnb.
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September 30 – October 1, 2025
10:00 PM – 12:00 AM (UTC)
| 10:00 PM | Check-In and Networking |
| 10:30 PM | Fireside Chat |
| 11:15 PM | Audience Q&A |
| 11:45 PM | Wrap Up |
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