Silicon Valley entrepreneur visiting

Na próxima quarta, 27 de abril, às 19h, o Turing Clube recebe Adrian Scott, empreendedor do Vale do Silício que visita o Garoa HC e fala sobre sua experiência na fundação de empresas como Napster, Ryze! e a startup CoderBuddy.

A palestra será em inglês e não haverá tradução simultânea. Não é necessário fazer inscrição prévia. Entrada franca.

Sobre a palestra

On 19-04-2011 20:18, Adrian Scott (CoderBuddy) wrote:
> Ola!
> 
> I will be in Sao Paulo next week for a few days and would love to meet
> members of your club. If you would be interested and it's convenient,
> I'd be delighted to give a talk at the club next Wednesday, April
> 27th, in the evening. I apologize for contacting you without more
> advance notice.
> 
> I could speak a bit about startups in Silicon Valley and share my
> experiences in Silicon Valley with Napster and the rise (Ryze!) of
> social networking, as well as trends in cloud-based software
> development, and what we're up to with my new Silicon Valley-style
> startup, CoderBuddy. ( CoderBuddy is focused on revolutionizing
> software development, starting with a web-based service that lets
> people create and publish applications to Google App Engine easily. )
> 
> Here is some information on my background:
> 
>  - I was a founding investor in Napster, the pioneering online music
> company
>  - I helped pioneer social networking, founding Ryze.com in 2001,
> which was a major influence on Friendster,
>      which in turn influenced MySpace, Orkut and Facebook.
>  - I co-founded a peer-to-peer startup, Flycode, which raised nearly
> $4 million from Silicon Valley and
>      Hollywood investors
>  - My new startup is CoderBuddy, which has raised funding from
> prominent Silicon Valley angels and a venture
>      fund, and our team is based in Latin America, including Panama
> and Brazil (Vitor Calejuri!)
>  - I will be a part of the Geeks on a Plane South America tour
> visiting Brazil, Chile and Argentina
> 
> I hope to meet you all soon,
> 
> -Adrian
> 
> P.S. Oh, and we are hiring ;)