About this presentation Walker & Co. Founder and CEO, Tristan Walker didn’t always see himself trying to build a health and beauty products company. In fact, he tried to cure childhood obesity, start a bank, and build a freight truck fixing company first, which were very...
Stacy Brown-Philpot didn’t expect to be a tech CEO. Trained as an investment banker, she came to Silicon Valley out of sheer curiosity and landed a finance job at Google when it had only 1,000 employees. "My mother said, ‘You know, if this Google thing doesn’t...
Late on a Monday morning, Arthur Hayes is sporting sweatpants and stubble. The ex-banker’s duds are far from what he would have been wearing at this time a few years ago. But it’s not that he turned couch potato; rather, he’s gone deeper than ever...
Several months ago, I spoke at a high school in Cleveland, Ohio, about entrepreneurship. Many parents were there, and one father asked me, “What made you think that you were capable of starting a company?” I thought back to what had led me to start my...
Thirty-seven years ago, New York-based APF Electronics, Inc. released The Imagination Machine, a hybrid video game console and personal computer designed to make a consumer's first experience with computing as painless and inexpensive as possible. APF's playful computer (and its game console, the MP1000) never rivaled...