Startup Office Hours w/ Ryan Smith (Qualtrics/Utah Jazz) + Derek Andersen (SG)

Wednesday, September 27, 2023, 6:00 – 7:00 PM UTC

Join Startup Grind founder Derek Andersen as he takes questions from founders on challenges they're facing in their startup. For the past 15 years Derek has been building communities. He is the co-founder/CEO of Bevy, a SaaS product that helps companies build virtual and in-person communities.

Virtual event
Panel Discussion

About this event

Join Startup Grind founder Derek Andersen as he takes questions from founders on challenges they're facing in their startup.

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 in funding from top venture firms and investors. 

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 10,000 events for more than 500,000 people. 

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.

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Speakers

  • Derek Andersen

    Startup Grind

    Founder & CEO

  • Ryan Smith

    Qualtrics, Smith Entertainment Group

    Founder, Chairman & CEO

Organizers

  • Derek Andersen

    Startup Grind

    Chapter Organizer

  • Startup Grind

    Silicon Valley

    The world’s largest startup community