Previous Events
Danny Rimer
Index Ventures’ Danny Rimer visited Madrone Studios for an interview with PandoDaily’s Sarah Lacy, where the two talked about investing in Europe and why London might be more important than Chicago, open source technologies and how they helped create the modern startup, and why his “crazy investment thesis” is all about the cloud. Rimer will be our...
Drew Houston
Dropbox co-founder and CEO Drew Houston stopped by Madrone Studios last night for our final PandoMonthly of February. Houston talked to PandoDaily’s Sarah Lacy about his journey from Boston to Silicon Valley, his experience with Y Combinator, the bus trip that broke the “I need to build a company to fix data synchronization” camel’s back, what entrepreneurs...
Josh Kopelman
Wait, didn’t we just do one of these? Never mind. First Round Capital’s Josh Kopelman schlepped over from Philadelphia to join us for another sunless PandoMonthly New York. Kopelman, who wore his “Gangnam Style” suit from First Round Capital’s 2012 holiday video and suffered through our montage of memorable First Round Capital cinematic hijinks, talked to our own...
Sophia Amoruso
The first month of 2013 PandoMonthly events is officially over. PandoDaily’s Sarah Lacy interviewed Airbnb’s Brian Chesky in San Francisco at the beginning of the month, Etsy’s Chad Dickerson two weeks after in New York, and NastyGal’s Sophia Amoruso a week after that in Los Angeles. Amoruso is unique in our series for a few reasons: She’s the first...
Chad Dickerson
PandoMonthly came back to New York, braving the sub-zero (if you count wind chill, which we do) temperature to sit with Etsy CEO Chad Dickerson and discuss the hiring of Kristina Salen as the company’s CFO, its year-end stats, Dickerson’s time at Yahoo, Pizza Hut, and the future of Etsy. The full video is available...
Brian Chesky
We returned In January after taking a month off to recover from a rapid-fire 2012, interviewing Airbnb’s Brian Chesky. He told us about the beginnings of the company and how some politically-minded cereal saved it from bankruptcy, the misinterpretation of Steve Jobs and his legacy, and the sharing economy. Oh, and there was maybe a little bit about
Naval Ravikant
So it goes. Last night marked the last PandoMonthly event of 2012, ending a three-city extravaganza that put some of the most noteworthy investors and entrepreneurs from New York, San Francisco, and Los Angeles in front of the Valley’s latest batch of hopeful startup founders and employees. AngelList’s Naval Ravikant ended the year with a bang. He managed to redefine the term...
Daniel Ek
Spotify co-founder and CEO Daniel Ek joined us to mark our sixth PandoMonthly event in New York, braving the snow and the East Coast’s propensity for horrible weather to talk about all things Spotify. Ek talked a little bit about his child slavery student-powered website development gig that he started at 13; the impact Sean Parker and Napster had...
Chris Sacca
Though we only hold them once every three months, our PandoMonthly events in Los Angeles have never failed to impress. Lowercase Capital’s Chris Sacca may not have sent rockets into space like our last guest in Los Angeles, Elon Musk, but that didn’t make last night’s event any less interesting. Sacca touched on a variety of subjects, from his beginnings...
Kevin Systrom
I try to not say this for every PandoMonthly, but our fireside chat with Kevin Systrom was one of our best yet. He was surprisingly candid for someone that became part of the Facebook behemoth just a month ago and offered plenty of insight for entrepreneurs. Covering everything from how to go about the fundraising process – including how it...
Dennis Crowley
You can’t run an event series exploring New York’s burgeoning tech scene for too long without having Dennis Crowley as a guest. Crowley is the founder and CEO of Foursquare, but you may know him from BestBuy and Gap ads and pretty much every story about the ascendency of New York’s tech scene. Go here to buy tickets now! While...
Tony Hsieh
Another PandoMonthly has come and gone. Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh took the stage last night to discuss how he got into the business of selling shoes online, the importance of corporate culture, and the Downtown Project, his attempt to transform Las Vegas into a tech hub. Throughout the night Hsieh revealed that Zappos employees would rather have...
Jonah Peretti
We’ve wrapped up another PandoMonthly New York, with BuzzFeed’s Jonah Peretti joining our own Sarah Lacy to talk about what it means for content to go viral, his belief that human curation is more important than SEO in the age of the social Web, and why he believes that BuzzFeed can support both investigative journalism and light-hearted slideshows with...
