Join us for a fireside chat with Silicon Valley investor Steve Hoffman. He's just launched his book "Making Elephants Fly" in Chinese. We'll ask him about his recent experience in China, running his accelerator in Silicon Valley, and get his view on future trends like AI and VR.
在硅谷史提芬·霍夫曼被人称作为霍夫船长。他是创始人空间（Founders Space）的船长和主席，在那里他教育和培训数以百计的初创企业创始人以及大企业的高层管理人员来如何进行创新。
创始人空间被公司杂志（Inc. Magazine）列为排名前10的孵化器，被福布斯杂志（Forbes Magazine）列为海外来到硅谷的初创企业首选的加速器。
霍夫曼在他的生活中始终不断地在进行着创新，他曾经从事过非常多的不同职业，这其中包括了：连续创业者、风险投资人、天使投资人、移动工作室负责人、计算机工程师、电影制片人、好莱坞电视剧执行人、出版作家、程序员、游戏设计师、日本漫画改编人、动画设计师以及配音演员。
Founders Space
In Silicon Valley, Steven Hoffman is known as Captain Hoff. He’s the Captain and Chairman of Founders Space, where he has educated and trained hundreds of startup founders and corporate executives in the art of innovation.
Founders Space was ranked a Top 10 Incubator in Inc. Magazine and the #1 Accelerator for startups coming to Silicon Valley from overseas in Forbes Magazine.
In Silicon Valley, Steven Hoffman is known as Captain Hoff. He’s the Captain and Chairman of Founders Space, where he has educated and trained hundreds of startup founders and corporate executives in the art of innovation.
Founders Space was ranked a Top 10 Incubator in Inc. Magazine and the #1 Accelerator for startups coming to Silicon Valley from overseas in Forbes Magazine.
Always innovating on his life, Hoffman has tried more professions than cats have lives, including serial entrepreneur, venture capitalist, angel investor, mobile studio head, computer engineer, filmmaker, Hollywood TV exec, published author, coder, game designer, manga rewriter, animator and voice actor.
As a boy Hoffman dreamed of making movies and games. He created over 50 short films and 80 games before graduating high school. Pursuing his passions, he earned a BS in Computer Engineering from UC Santa Barbara and a Masters in Cinema Television from USC.
His first job in Hollywood was reading TV scripts, but he quickly rose to development executive. Moving to Japan, he went on to work at Sega, where his group collaborated with Hollywood on interactive movies and games.
Upon returning to Silicon Valley, Hoffman founded LavaMind, which produced dozens of online and mobile games, as well as designed digital products for Disney, Qualcomm, Intel, MetLife and Sesame Workshop.
Hoffman launched Spiderdance, his second startup, producing interactive TV shows for MTV, NBC, Warner Brothers, TBS, Sony and A&E. At the same time, Hoffman helped found the Academy of Television’s Interactive Media Group and the Producers Guild New Media Council.
After writing a book on game design, Hoffman joined Infospace, as their North American Studio Head, where he ran US mobile games. Hoffman then cofounded three venture funded startups focused on media, games and entertainment.
Today, Hoffman heads Founders Space and works with entrepreneurs, corporate executives, and investors in 22 countries to create innovations that rock the world!
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