Derek Anderson, Founder and CEO of Startup Grind

Apr 13, 2017, 10:30 PM – Apr 14, 2017, 12:45 AM

This Fireside Chat is going to be especially special– our very own Founder, Derek Andersen, will be here in Dallas sharing stories of his experience as an entrepreneur! Derek is the founder and CEO of Startup Grind, a community of over 200 Chapters in 80 countries designed to educate, inspire, and connect entrepreneurs.

In-person event

About this event

Derek Andersen ​is the Founder & CEO of Startup Grind, a 400,000 person entrepreneurial community with 200 chapters in 85 countries run by more than 1,000 volunteers. Startup Grind's mission is to help every entrepreneur in the world. Its core values are giving before you take, helping others first, and making friends. 

Derek Andersen spent four years in product management at Electronic Arts working on games like The Godfather, Burnout, The Sims 3, and Mirror’s Edge. He left EA in 2009 to start Vaporware Labs, a product incubator which mostly failed but built products including Commonred which was acquired by Income.com in 2012, and Startup Grind. After running Startup Grind as a side project for 2 years, Derek turned his full attention to scaling it from 3 chapters to 200 chapters today. In 2015 Startup Grind will host 1,200 events for 75,000 entrepreneurs. He currently lives in Palo Alto, California but has lived eight years outside the U.S. in France, Germany, Switzerland, New Zealand, and the Cook Islands.

Check out what happened

Speaker

  • Derek Andersen

    Startup Grind

    Founder + CEO

When

When

April 13 – 14, 2017
10:30 PM – 12:45 AM UTC

Agenda

10:30 PMNetworking and Food
11:30 PMFireside Chat
12:30 AMNetworking

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Dell Technologies

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