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Startup Grind Fremont Hosts Manish Chandra (Poshmark)

September 16 DeVry University 6-9 PM

What is Startup Grind?

Startup Grind is a global startup community designed to educate, inspire, and connect entrepreneurs. We host monthly events in more than 150 cities and 65 countries featuring successful local founders, innovators, educators and investors who share personal stories and lessons learned on the road to building great companies. Our monthly fireside chat interviews, startup mixers and annual conferences provide ample opportunities to connect with amazing startups and the people behind them, tap into a strong support network, form meaningful connections and gain inspiration for the startup journey ahead. For more information visit StartupGrind.com or follow us on twitter @StartupGrind.

Agenda

6:00 Networking and Food
7:00 Fireside Chat
8:00 Networking

Manish Chandra is the founder and CEO of Poshmark, the largest community marketplace for fashion where millions of women come to buy, sell and share their personal style. Manish has always been passionate about building communities and founded the first social shopping company, Kaboodle, which was acquired by Hearst Corporation in 2007. With Poshmark, Manish has applied his understanding of technology to change the way women think about shopping, building a passionate community based around people’s love for fashion and each other. Manish received a BTech from IIT Kanpur, MS from UT Austin, and an MBA from Haas School of Business.


About Fremont Chapter Director:

Shilpi is Co-Founder & COO of Kvantum, a marketing performance and attribution company, working with top CPG & Retail brands. Shilpi holds a M.S. in Physics from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi and MBA from UC Davis.

Shilpi spent 15+ years in strategic consulting, M&A and product development. While advising companies like Adobe, Microsoft, McAfee, Teradata. Shilpi built a foundation of what it takes to scale the operations globally and sell software as-a service. Shilpi has also helped various startups in building their operations ground up. Shilpi grew up in northern part of India close to Himalayan valley. She came to California in 2001 and it is her home away from home since then.

Twitter @Shilpi_SV

Fremont Start Up Grind Chapter:
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/StartupGrindFremont
Twitter @FremontGrind

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