Please come and join the UW CSE Entrepreneurship club at the 2nd Startup Confidential dinner and speaker series, Wednesday November 7th at 5-7PM 🎉🗣!
Dinner starts at 5PM, talk at 6. If you plan to attend, please RSVP here so we can order the right amount of food🍽🍽🍽.
Our second speaker will be Stewart Fortier (https://www.linkedin.com/in/stewart-fortier-7422b829/), the current CTO of Banzai, a seattle startup on Lake Union. Stewart is a serial entrepreneur (starting in college) and he is going to talk about his prior company, MassRoots, the 2nd successful cannabis-tech startup in US!
Bio
Stewart Fortier is the CTO at Banzai, a 60-person bootstrapped startup in Seattle. Before joining Banzai, he was a CTO-In-Residence at the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence where he helped to launch a leading company in the speech synthesis space.
Previously, he served as the co-founder & CTO at MassRoots, which is now a public company. He has built and led world-class engineering teams from the first line of code through a successful exit, as well as investing in or advising over a dozen startups.
Abstract
Stewart will be speaking about his adventures going from self-taught programmer to one of the youngest CTOs of a public company ever.
Building a company remains a fairly opaque process and is nothing like it’s portrayed in the movies. Stewart will be sharing anecdotes that will hopefully help illuminate what the actual experience of starting a company is like, and, if nothing else, will be entertaining.
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Mike
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Michael Jae-Yoon Chung
Graduate Student
Computer Science & Engineering
University of Washington