Yale Tech Conference 2016: Changing the Face of Tech

Priscila Bala. Director of the Mentor Network, Yale Entrepreneurial Institute, at the Yale Tech Conference 2016: Changing the Face of Tech, April 29, San Francisco, California. Yale Tech is a global community for alumni in the industry: ‪

Interviewed by Daniel Ayele, Co-Organizer of Yale Tech, at the Yale Tech Conference 2016: Changing the Face of Tech, April 29, San Francisco, California. Michael is a Partner at Y Combinator, a leading early stage venture capital firm. Prior to joining Y Combinator as an investor, Michael was the Co-Founder and CEO of Justin.tv and Socialcam. Socialcam sold to Autodesk in 2012 and under the leadership of Emmett Shear, Justin.tv became Twitch.tv and sold to Amazon in 2014 for nearly $1 billion. Before getting into startups, he spent a year as the finance director for a US Senate campaign. Michael has a BA in Political Science from Yale University. Yale Tech is a global community for alumni in the industry: ‪

Interviewed by Fredo Silva of Morrison & Foerster, at the Yale Tech Conference 2016: Changing the Face of Tech, April 29, San Francisco, California. Ann is a Co-Founding Partner at Floodgate, a leading early stage venture capital firm with investments in Lyft, Refinery29, and Chloe and Isabel. Prior to co-founding Floodgate she worked as an Analyst at Charles River Ventures and Mckinsey & Company. Ann has a BS in Electrical Engineering from Yale and a PhD in Quantitative Security Modeling from Stanford University. Yale Tech is a global community for alumni in the industry: ‪

Interviewed by Miles Lasater - Board Member at Venture for America, at the Yale Tech Conference 2016: Changing the Face of Tech, April 29, San Francisco, California. Jennifer Pahlka is the founder and executive director of Code for America. She recently served as the US Deputy Chief Technology Officer in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, where she co-founded the United States Digital Service. She is known for her TED talk, Coding a Better Government. Jennifer has a BA in American Studies from Yale. Miles Lasater is on the board of Venture for America. He is the Co-Founder and COO of higher education technology startup, One University Network. He is also the Founder of Higher One and Founder of SeeClickFix. Miles has provided leadership to take Higher One from an idea among a few college students to a publically traded company serving over 5 million students. Along the way to a 2010 IPO, Higher One was recognized as one of the fastest growing private companies in

Donna Dubinsky, CEO/co-founder of Numenta and former CEO of Palm At the Yale Tech Conference 2016: Changing the Face of Tech, April 29, San Francisco, California. Donna is the CEO/co-founder of Numenta and former CEO of Palm. She is the co-founder Handspring, creator of the category-defining Treo smartphone. Handspring merged with Palm in 2003, and Donna continued to serve on Palm’s board until 2009. Donna earned a B.A. from Yale University, and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School. She is currently on the board of Yale University. Yale Tech is a global community for alumni in the industry: ‪

At the Yale Tech Conference 2016: Changing the Face of Tech, April 29, San Francisco, California. Alison is the incoming CMO of Google Enterprise, which includes the Google Cloud Platform, Google Apps, and the Enterprise Google Maps and Education teams. Alison was previously an Operating Partner at Emergence Capital where she focused on early and growth stage enterprise cloud companies including Textio, Handshake, and SteelBrick. Prior to joining Emergence, Alison was the Executive Director of the Harvard Business School California Research Center as well as the Co-Founder and Director of Marketing for Quicken Loans at Intuit. Alison has a BA in American Studies from Yale University and an MBA from Harvard Business School. Yale Tech is a global community for alumni in the industry: ‪

Interviewed by Tyler He, Investments at Tencent Game, at the Yale Tech Conference 2016: Changing the Face of Tech, April 29, San Francisco, California. Lina Chen is the Co-Founder & CEO of Nix Hydra, which makes magical, colorful, and friendly games popular with young women. The company has more than $5.6 M in VC funding and made the hit mobile pet game Egg Baby, which has over 15M downloads. Previously, Lina negotiated international mobile deals for Grooveshark, a streaming music startup, and worked at the William Morris Agency, one of the largest entertainment agencies in the world. Lina graduated from Yale and was definitely not in House Slytherin. She grew up in South Africa, where she once rode an ostrich. Her favorite games include Neopets, Scorched Earth, Burrito Bison, Snapimals and Carrot Fantasy. Yale Tech is a global community for alumni in the industry: ‪

Remarks by Chuck Comey ’84, YEI Sponsorship Coordinator and Corporate Partner, Morrison & Foerster, and Victor Wong, Founder of Yale Tech and CEO of Thunder ( at the Yale Tech Conference 2016: Changing the Face of Tech, April 29, San Francisco, California. Yale Tech is a global community for alumni in the industry: ‪