Just in "Case"
This drone delivery company started in Africa working to save lives.
What is ZipLine?
This speaker is the CEO of Endura Therapeutics and has raised a sizable seed round.
Who is Adrian Sanborn?
This classmate played professional baseball.
Who is Jorge?
In Ken's book, he streses that Culture is more important than this.
What is strategy?
The class instructor (me) teaches at Haas part-time but primarily works in this function full-time.
What is CFO?
In this solar service case, this company considered Tax Equity financing as an alternative to a Series A.
What is Sunrun?
Parsa Saljoughian spoke to us about the retention curve. He is currently with this sports device company.
What is Whoop?
This classmate from Gilead loves baking cakes?
Who is Aditi?
The acronym for these entities is LP. They are the investors in VC firms.
What is a Limited Partner?
UC Berkeley School of Law used to be named after this now cancelled Bay Area attorney.
Who is John Henry Boalt.
What is Product Led Growth?
This speaker emphasized that people don't matter. It's all about the growth.
Who is Jonathan Hsu?
This classmate and crypto expert is also a professional DJ.
Who is Anchit?
Product market fit is best determined by customer churn or this inverse measure of churn.
What is retention?
This famous Berkeley street is known for street vendors, interesting stores, and smoke shops.
What is Telegraph?
This is the full name of the crypto founder of FTX.
Who is Sam Bankman Fried?
This speaker was is the former CEO of Silicon Valley Bank and the author of the class book.
Who is Ken Wilcox?
This classmate played professional tennis.
Who is Liz?
This SaaS metric refers to the total amount of yearly subscription revenue.
What is "ARR"?
Kevin and Connie Chou, the generous entrepreneurial couple who funded our building as a gift to Haas sold this gaming company for almost a billion dollars.
What is Kabam?
This firm operates on a nurture vs. nature model and spends millions of dollars employing full time support staff.
What is A16Z?
Victor Echevarria spoke to us about investing in non-consensus. He is the GP at this firm.
What is Jackson Square Ventures?
This classmate spent 20 years at Google and is now working on AI for wealth management?
Who is Sumi?
What is Gene Pool Engineering?
This is the word represented by the letter "G" in "AGI" that refers to the future of artifical intelligence.
What is "general"?
What is Contently?
This speaker from CSC Upshot is one of the view Asian Female VC Founders in the Valley and has a partnership with AngelList.
Who is Ming Yeh?
This classmate loves road trips while working at Apple?
Who is Harrison?
Amazing customer experience can help reduce this important sales metric.
What is CAC (customer acquisiton cost)?
On the first day of class, this social media company was discussed in the example of how to engage in productive discussion in the class.
What is TikTok?