Geoffrey Moore – Author of ‘Crossing The Chasm’

Geoffrey Moore is an author, speaker, and advisor who splits his consulting time between start-up companies in the Mohr Davidow portfolio and established high-tech enterprises, most recently including Salesforce, Microsoft, Intel, Box, Aruba, Cognizant, and Rackspace. Moore’s life’s work has focused on the market dynamics surrounding disruptive innovations. His first book, Crossing the Chasm, focuses […]

Crossing The Chasm

Art Fong – Hewlett-Packard Employee #9

Here is an interesting question. If Microwave Engineer Art Fong had decided to turn down Bill Hewlett’s job offer back in 1945, how would the Hewlett Packard product line of microwave signal generators, bridges, and a long line of spectrum analyzers be different today? We think those resulting product lines of today would be substantially […]

Bob Metcalfe – Inventor of Ethernet and founder of 3COM

Bob Metcalfe, engineer, technology executive and venture capitalist, invented the Ethernet. He attended MIT and Harvard University, studying mathematics and computer science, before joining Xerox’s Palo Alto Research center. It was there that he was inspired to invent the Ethernet in 1973, which allowed computers to send packets of information and avoid collisions with incoming packets. […]

Bob Metcalfe - inventor of Ethernet

Tara Roehl – Neural Diversity and Autism – The Impact on Creativity and Innovation

Tara was the guest on the Aug 23rd Killer Innovations radio show. Topic: Neural Diversity and Autism – The Impact on Creativity and Innovation Bio: Tara Roehl is a nationally certified speech-language pathologist. She owns Speechy Keen Speech Therapy, a telepractice-based private practice in Colorado focusing on the social/pragmatic and executive functioning needs of students with ADHD, […]

Tara Roehl - Speech Language Pathologist

Robert Scoble – Technical evangelist, futurist and author

Scoble is best known for his blog, Scobleizer, which came to prominence during his tenure as a technology evangelist at Microsoft. He currently works for Rackspace and the Rackspace sponsored community site Building 43promoting breakthrough technology and startups. He previously worked for Fast Company as a video blogger. You can read more of his bio […]

Bryan Kramer – Author of Shareology

Bryan Kramer is one of the world’s foremost leaders in the art and science of sharing, and has been credited with instigating the #H2H human business movement in marketing and social. With over 300K social fans and followers, and an intimate understanding of the intricacies and interworking of both social technologies and social behaviors, Bryan […]

Bryan Kramer

Rahul Sood – co-founder and CEO Unikrn

Rahul Sood is the CEO of Unikrn, a Seattle based eSports startup. Previous to Unikrn, Sood created the first incubation fund for startups at Microsoft, and eventually Microsoft consolidated their global startup activities under Sood’s leadership.  In June of 2013 he launched Microsoft Ventures. A serial entrepreneur, Sood spent 18 years in multiple startups prior […]

Daniel Epstein – Co-founder of Unreasonable Group

Daniel’s life has been shaped by a fundamental belief that entrepreneurship is the answer to nearly all the issues we face today. By the time he received his undergraduate degree in philosophy, he’d already started three companies. In 2012 he was recognized by Inc. Magazine as a “30 under 30 entrepreneur” and by Forbes as […]

Steve Vannelli – Managing Director of GaveKal Capital

Steven Vannelli is managing director of GaveKal Capital and portfolio manager of the GaveKal Knowledge Leaders Funds and ETFs. He oversees index creation. investment strategy, asset allocation, security selection and management of the investment team. Steve leads development on GaveKal’s analysis of intangible capital, studying how it affects corporate profitability and wealth creation. His work […]