The Information's Future of Startups: Lessons for Next-Gen Disruptors is a two day event for startup managers, CEOs, and investors to learn from founders of category-defining businesses. Join us to better understand how the most promising and fast-growing startups work and how leaders are managing during these challenging times.

Speakers to include:

• Google Former CEO & Schmidt Futures Co-founder Eric Schmidt
• Sunshine Co-founder & Yahoo former CEO Marissa Mayer
• Carta Co-founder & CEO Henry Ward
• Notion COO Akshay Kothari
• Cloudflare Co-founder, President & COO Michelle Zatlyn
• Substack Co-founders Chris Best & Hamish McKenzie
• Coupang CTO Thuan Pham (former Uber CTO)
• OpenAI Co-founder & CEO Sam Altman
• Zola Co-founder & CEO Shan-Lyn Ma
• Cameo Co-founder & CEO Steven Galanis
• Magic Leap Chief Business Officer Walter Delph
• Precursor Ventures Founder & Managing Partner, Charles Hudson
• Forerunner Ventures Founder & Managing Partner, Kirsten Green
• Upfront Ventures Partner, Kara Nortman
• Mirror Founder & CEO Brynn Putnam (now part of Lululemon)
• Expensify Founder & CEO David Barrett
• Intuit EVP & CTO Marianna Tessel
• All Turtles & mmhmm Co-founder & CEO Phil Libin
• Niantic Chief Operating Officer Megan Quinn

Topics include:

• The ways in which tech leaders are navigating cultural and financial pressures and opportunities amid the pandemic, including managing WFH productivity and office plans for 2021.
• How leaders are balancing the political views of their employees and their customers.
• How founders are exploiting new and traditional capital opportunities, as well as a slew of exit opportunities, while paying close attention to terms. 
• Traps to avoid when buying cloud computing services, and building teams and software to take advantage of them.

The Information's Future of Startups brings attendees deeper into the fold with insider knowledge from established public company executives, founders of late-stage startups (with the scars to prove it), and an exclusive look into the next-generation of billion-dollar tech companies.

Join us for a day and a half of conversations and the opportunity to connect with and learn from fellow startup leaders during our networking sessions.