Last week, founders, investors, innovators, and creators congregated in Redwood City to attend Startup Grind’s Global Conference. Since 2010, Startup Grind has strived to give startups across the globe the education and opportunities they need to build, grow, and scale their companies – and their conference did just that. 

This year’s agenda featured founders, operators, and investors from well-known tech companies and venture capital firms, including Ivan Zhao, CEO of Notion, Connie Chan, General Partner of Andreessen Horowitz, Christina Cacioppo, CEO & Co-Founder of Vanta, Allyson Felix, Track & Field Olympian & General Partner of Crenshaw Ventures, Zach Perret, CEO & Founder of Plaid, Tomer Cohen, Chief Product Officer of LinkedIn, Hamish McKenzie, Co-Founder & Chief Writing Officer of Substack, and many more. 

A few highlights from the two-day event include:

• Vishal Sunak, CEO & Co-Founder of LinkSquares gave a tactical breakout session on “The Early Stage Playbook: $1M to $10M ARR in 2 Years”

• Robert Brunner, Partner & Founder of the award-winning design firm Ammunition, shared his core beliefs on the religion of building amazing products

• Anna Barber, Partner at M13, moderated a panel with product experts Denise Hemke, Chief Product Officer of Checkr, and Boris Logvinksy, VP of Product of Vanta, on proven scaling strategies from fast-growing unicorns

• Josh Constine, Venture Partner at SignalFire (and former TechCrunch reporter) interviewed Tim Draper on his lessons learned from failures and advice for early stage entrepreneurs 

• Derek Andersen, CEO & Co-Founder of Startup Grind, moderated a fireside chat with Michael Johnson, 4-time gold medal Olympian turned entrepreneur & advisor, on cultivating a high performance mindset, achieving audacious goals, and navigating challenging times.

Feel like you missed out on Startup Grind Global? Lucky for you, Startup Grind is a global community with local chapters in cities around the world – check out their directory to find your closest chapter and stay up to day on their ongoing events. 

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