💥Calling all CMU Founders💥
CMU x OnDeck
Understand journey to being a founder
Date: Wednesday, May 20th
Time: 5:30 pm PST
Location: Zoom
Calling all CMU Founders
Are you considering founding a start-up or interested to learn what's involved with building a company?
Join us on Wednesday, 5/20 to hear fellow CMU alumni share their journey as successful founders, meet other entrepreneurial CMU alumni, and learn more about the OnDeck Fellowship.
Event will start with panel discussion & then we will split into small groups for discussions featuring our panelists as well as other CMU founders. This is a great opportunity to meet other entrepreneurial CMU alumni and engage with fellow alumni founders.
This event is hosted in partnership with OnDeck and is an opportunity to learn more about their fellowship. There will be 5 CMU founders who participated in the fellowship who will share their experiences.
***** This event is open to Carnegie Mellon alumni ONLY *****
Learn more about the event here!
Agenda:
5:30 pm PST -- Welcoming Remarks
5:30 pm - 6:30 pm -- Panel: "CMU Founder's Journey"
6:30 pm - 7:00 pm -- Small Breakout Discussions
7:00 pm -- Closing Remarks
Panelists
Founder & CEO @ Cask (acq Google)
John was formerly the Founder & CEO of Cask, the first unified integration platform for Hadoop and Apache Spark. Cask was acquired by Google in 2018. John has since been helping founders on their journey and runs his own startup studio.
Jonathan holds a Bachelor’s degree in ECE and Business Administration from Carnegie Mellon University.
Founder & CEO @ The League
Amanda Bradford is the founder of The League, an exclusive dating app that matches smart, busy, and ambitious people together. Amanda studied at CMU and Stanford, and previously worked for Sequoia Capital, Salesforce, and Google.
Amanda holds a Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems from Carnegie Mellon University.
Founder & CEO @ Iterable
Justin Zhu is the founder of Iterable, a growth marketing platform that maximizes lifetime value by enabling you to create better experiences for your customers. Prior to founding Iterable Justin was a software engineer at Twitter.
Justin holds a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University.
Co-Host
On Deck is the first place the best talent looks when thinking about starting or joining a startup.
The On Deck Fellowship builds community around a cohort of founders at the earliest stages of starting a company. Over the course of 8 weeks, fellows take part in a series of dinner events, hackathons, retreats, workshops, co-working days, and introductions.