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March 29, 2023 @ 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm PDT
FreefnSeattle Chapter Spring Happy Hour
Join Founders Network members in Seattle for a Spring Happy Hour. You’ll have the opportunity to connect with your fellow chapter members, discuss startup challenges, and celebrate recently achieved milestones.
Venue: South Lake Union District
Special Guest
Currently at Amazon (AWS) working as Head of Operations and PMO for Startups. We help 100000s of Startups develop their products on AWS and be successful in their businesses. My team is responsible for 1/ qualifying and onboarding Startups on AWS, ensuring they have access to financial/technical benefits exclusively offered to Startups, 2/ driving business planning cycles, weekly/monthly business reviews, analytics, insights, OKRs, budgets, resource planning, and 3/ driving many strategic and operational initiatives ensuring healthy business outcome.
Prior to Amazon, I was at Ericsson for more than 19 years and worked in many leadership positions involving responsibilities of managing large teams and owning an accountable PMO through which 100s of mUSD business is delivered. I was responsible for PMO, Governance, Resources, Financials, Metrics, Business performance, executive reporting, and business operations for a very portfolio of programs of 100s of mUSD involving 1000+ resources.
Chapter Partner
Michael Avent is a partner in Perkins Coie LLP’s Emerging Companies and Venture Capital practice group, is available for legal office hours.
Mike’s practice focuses on the representation of venture-backed technology companies and the venture capital funds that invest in them. He is experienced in a number of areas relevant to founders, including entity formation and incorporation, financing transactions (from pre-seed to pre-IPO), mergers and acquisitions, employee equity matters and related executive compensation matters.
fnSeattle Chapter Leadership Team
- Chapter Director: Matias Troccoli
- Growth/Membership Chair: Dena Neek
- Ecosystem Advisor: Josh Carter
Complimentary Ticket:
Are you a full-time tech founder? Be our guest! During COVID, we’re making our events available to tech founders everywhere. Enjoy a complimentary ticket to come learn from fellow tech founders, partners and investors. Already used your complimentary guest pass? Request an invite to see if you qualify for membership.
About Founders Network:
Founded in 2011, Founders Network offers lifelong peer mentorship to over 600 tech startup founders globally. Our platform, programs and high-touch service facilitate authentic experience sharing, warm introductions and long-term professional relationships. Additional benefits include over $500k in startup discounts and promotion to 2,000 newsletter readers. Members are located in San Francisco, New York City, Los Angeles, Vancouver, Toronto, London and other tech hubs. Each month our Membership Committee admits a new cohort of full-time tech founders who are nominated by an existing member. Learn more about us here
Confidentiality Policy
All information shared within Founders Network is strictly confidential. We are built on a foundation of trust, and the community takes confidentiality seriously. Investors, members, and staff all share experiences and opinions off the record. In this roundtable forum, we continue to model our fnValues of Reciprocity, Humility, Authenticity and Inclusivity. Read more about our Privacy Policy here.
Testimonials
If you don't have a cohort group in something like Founders Network that you can develop long-term relationships with and discuss the same topics that come up with people that you already know, you're probably missing out on something very important.
David Plonsky
The number one advantage is the law of compound interest. The longer you stay in a very high-quality network the strong and more authentic relationships you build.
Chaitanya Vaidya
We know each other's business and we know each other's struggles. Having a personal relationship with other founders that is completely confidential and completely authentic gives you a lot of great advice.
Doug Lessing
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Becky Splitt
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Max Linares
There's a lot of great stuff going on even now in San Francisco. I've found Founders Network has been a great resource for me and for all of the founders I know during these tough times.
Jarie Bolander
It allowed me to meet people who had done this before that had the experience. I was able to explain an issue very briefly and they were able to give me a very detailed response on how they addressed it.
Terence Finn
I've used the platform to discover advice, connections, resources, discounts, on important services, connections to investors, and practice on how to pitch. The kind of conversations you can't get anywhere else on youtube or google searches.
Alexandra Greenhill
I see Founders Network as one of those necessary resources in the Chicagoland area.
Jason Jacobsohn
