Upstream Events: Mike Vernal from Sequoia, former NFL CB Chris Gronkowski, Polina Marinova…
Hey everyone -
Welcome back! Excited to kick off the new year with this line-up of rockstar speakers.
Know someone who would be a great speaker or have a topic you want to be discussed? We’d be delighted to get your recommendations!
Is meeting great people one of your 2021 goals? Give us a shout!
For example, community member Danielle Mantich wants to hit 100 events by June 2021; Another community member, Jack Policar, wants to launch the highest quality professional community around sustainability with Upstream, while making new connections for Phood. Have a goal? Let us know how we can support you!
THIS WEEK’S EVENTS ROUND-UP
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MONDAY the 4th
TUESDAY the 5th
- New Years — Featuring Special Entrepreneur Guest- FHF at 2pm ET
- Sports Business Event #13 with Chris Gronkowski — Founder/CEO at Ice Shaker and former NFL fullback at 7pm ET
WEDNESDAY the 6th
- Crazy Stories With A Top Reddit Moderator (IamA, AskReddit, and more) at 1pm ET
- Happy 2021 Media People Meetup! What’s Your Resolution? at 5:30pm ET
- Pitch Night #4 with LoanSense at 7pm ET
- Investor Series #19 with Mike Vernal — General Partner at Sequoia Capital at 8pm ET
THURSDAY the 7th
- Serial Marketers SpeedUp #13 at 12pm ET
- Consumer Founder / Investor Meetup with Jim Scheinman from Maven Ventures at 4pm ET
- Pitching to Investors as a Diverse Founder at 4pm ET
- Exponential: Media Partnerships with Jason Haikara (former MediaLink and Fox Executive) at 7pm ET
- BD / Partnerships Social #17 with David Berliner — Senior Director, Strategic Product Partnerships at Salesforce at 7pm ET
- Joy Soldier Meet-Up #2 at 8pm ET
Friday the 8th
- Founders + Executive + Changemaker Meetup at 12pm ET
- Future of Work — Vaccine Insights with Forest Huls (rare disease pathologist) at 1pm ET
- Upstream Social #45 with Polina Marinova Pompliano — Founder & Author of The Profile at 3pm ET
- Social Audio Mixer Event #3 at 3:30pm ET
- Creator/Passion Economy Mixer #3 at 4:30pm ET
Select Upcoming Events
- Pitch Night #5 with Grouport on 1/12 at 7pm ET
- Investor Series #20 with Turner Novak on 1/12 at 8pm ET
- All Things Stripe with Jeff Weinstein — Product Lead at Stripe on 1/13 at 1pm ET
- Active Investor #19: Alexandra Sukin of Bessemer on 1/13 at 6pm ET
- Running A Conference During A Pandemic with Jim Louderback — CEO of VidCon on 1/13 at 7pm ET
- Origins: Pipe with co-founder and co-CEO Harry Hurst on 1/14 at 5pm ET
THIS WEEK’S OFFICE HOURS
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MONDAY the 4th
Chris Moreno — VP, National Partnerships at Luxer One at 8am ET
Eli Heuman — Regional Manager at Maof at 9am ET
Scott Markovits — Startup builder at 9am ET
Lior Romanowsky — CEO at Jenna AI at 10am ET
Kyle Rezac-Dennis — Founder at White Elephant at 10am ET
Kurt Benson — CEO/Founder at Tidal League at 12pm ET
Alex Taub — Co-founder at Upstream at 1pm ET
Zach Levin — Founder at Law by Levin at 1pm ET
Kazi Islam — Product at Upstream at 2pm ET
Evelina Lavrova — CMO at Waves World at 2pm ET
Danny Levy — Founder at Ting.io at 4pm ET
Calvin Arterberry — Lead UX Designer at Travelers at 5:30pm ET
TUESDAY the 5th
Kyle Rezac-Dennis — Founder at White Elephant at 10am ET
Dom Tancredi — CEO at Dom & Tom at 11am ET
Sarah Wood — Head of Growth and Community at Upstream at 11am ET
Marie Roker-Jones — Co-CEO at Essteem at 1pm ET
Neal Conlon — Entrepreneur Coach at 1pm ET
Eric Tash — Director of Digital Marketing at Qui Tequila at 1pm ET
Paul Sethi — Managing Partner at 2048 Ventures at 2pm ET
David Hardoon — Patent Attorney at 2pm ET
Jamie Hourahan — CRO at Kwali at 2pm ET
Dave Weinberg — Partnership Recruiting at Gently Ventures at 4pm ET
Therese Gedda — Founder/CEO at Reimaginez at 4:30pm ET
Leo Morejon — Marketing at Applegate at 5pm ET
Jasmine Maietta — Founder/CEO at round21 at 5:15pm ET
WEDNESDAY the 6th
Eric Friedman — Fractional COO at BuildingTheMachine.com at 9am ET
Scott Rosenbluth — CEO at Craze Management at 10am ET
David Cutler — Founder at David Cutler Network at 10am ET
Jennifer Dagi — Relationship Blogger / Coach at 10am ET
Hanan Eldahry — CEO at HotHoods at 11am ET
Kine Paulsen — Partner at kinfizz at 12pm ET
Greg Baroth — Social/Digital Consultant at 12pm ET
Steve Gowa — Sales Enablement at Forcemultiply at 12pm ET
Chris Johnston — Product Designer at The SilverLogic at 1:30pm ET
Oren Kozlowski — VC Principal at Founders Factory NY at 2:30pm ET
Mike Gelb — Founder at The Consumer VC at 2:30pm ET
Mat Kaliski — Principal at Acronym Venture Capital at 3pm ET
Mark Wang — Patent Attorney at 3pm ET
Shira Goldetsky — CEO at Sapient Search at 3:30pm ET
Teddy Seem — Partner at Outsiders Fund at 3:30pm ET
Eric Broad — CEO at Bowery Legal at 4pm ET
Zac Stern — Founder at Official at 5:15pm ET
Douglas Govindavajhala — Senior Software Engineer at 6pm ET
Henry Chi — Investor at Capital Innovators at 8pm ET
Ron Schwartz — CEO at TechHub Limited at 9pm ET
Chris Moreno — VP, National Partnerships at Luxer One at 9:30pm ET
Josh Hone — COO at Column at 11:30pm ET
THURSDAY the 7th
Jackson Bubala — Senior Associate at Motivate Ventures at 11am ET
David Berkowitz — Founder at Serial Marketers at 12:30pm ET
Nikki Bogopolskaya — Brand Partnerships at TikTok at 1pm ET
Geoff Scott — CEO/CTO Coach at 1pm ET
Matt Jessen-Howard — Partner at Noveus Capital at 2pm ET
Ben Pulver — Head of BizOps at Banyan at 2pm ET
Andrew McCarley — Senior Consultant at Peabody Aerospace at 3pm ET
Nick Jaber — Head of Growth at NeoEYED at 6:40pm ET
FRIDAY the 8th
Dave Weinberg — Partnership Recruiting at Gently Ventures at 11am ET
Scott Rosenbluth — CEO at Craze Management at 11am ET
Steve Gowa — Sales Enablement at Forcemultiply at 12pm ET
Kurt Benson — CEO/Founder at Tidal League at 12pm ET
Neal Conlon — Entrepreneurship Coach at 12pm ET
Alex Taub — Co-founder at Upstream at 1pm ET
Kine Paulsen — Partner at kinfizz at 2pm ET
Robert Ravanshenas — Senior Associate at Maven Ventures at 2:30pm ET
Sarah Alister — Computer Science Student at 3pm ET
Michael Galluppo — Founder at OLY.AI at 4:30pm ET
Catalina Kaiyoorawongs — CEO at LoanSense at 5:15pm ET
Jason Yau — President at Canvaspeople at 6pm ET
SATURDAY the 9th
Carey Ransom — President at Operate at 12pm ET
Ali Jamal — Founding Partner at First Check Ventures at 5pm ET
Charles Hudson — Managing Partner at Precursor Ventures at 6pm ET
If you have any friends you think might like the events above, share the link with them so they can RSVP and join!
Can’t wait to see you on Upstream.
Alex