Building world-class companies with Joel Spolsky (Stack Overflow, Trello)

Sep 21, 2017, 5:00 – 8:00 PM (UTC)

London

Runway East, 10 Finsbury Square, London, EC2A 1AF

Joel Spolsky co-founded Trello.com (sold to Atlassian for $425 million) & is the CEO/co-founder of Stack Overflow, where millions of developers go to learn, share their knowledge and build careers. Stack Overflow currently serves 50 million programmers monthly. Joel is also the founder of Fog Creek Software & previously worked at Microsoft - in the team designed VBA as a member of the Excel team.

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About this event

Joel Spolsky co-founded Trello.com (sold to Atlassian for $425 million) & is the CEO/co-founder of Stack Overflow, where millions of developers go to learn, share their knowledge and build careers. Stack Overflow currently serves 50 million programmers monthly. Joel is also the founder of Fog Creek Software & previously worked at Microsoft - in the team designed VBA as a member of the Excel team.

Joel is a world-­renowned speaker and passionate advocate of the global developer community -- he’s on a mission to help the world understand that they hold the keys to our future. He has written four books, including User Interface Design for Programmers and Smart and Gets Things Done: Joel Spolsky’s Concise Guide to Finding the Best Technical Talent. His personal website, Joel on Software, has been popular with developers around the world since its inception in 2000 and has been translated into over 30 languages. Joel graduated from Yale University with a Computer Science degree.

Join us next week, learn from Joel and meet him in person.

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Speaker

  • Joel Spolsky

    Stack Overflow

When

When

Thursday, September 21, 2017
5:00 PM – 8:00 PM (UTC)

Agenda

5:00 PMNetworking and Food
6:00 PMFireside Chat
7:00 PMNetworking
8:00 PMFinish

Organizers

  • Prem Sangeet

    Supreme Factory

    London Director

  • Sam Adekunle

    Grone Collective

    Co-Director

  • Gabriel Pizzolante

    UK GAP Consulting

    Ambassador

  • Matt Lamb

    Howard Kennedy

    Ambassador

  • James Lethem

    Nascence

    Ambassador

  • Elinor Honigstein

    Ambassador

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