Video: The Venture Capital Roundup – Churchill Club’s Top Ten Tech Trends
What happens when you put a group of luminaries in the field of venture capital together and ask them to talk about tech trends? Find out below.
(Steve Jurvetson, Vinod Khosla, Joe Schoendorf, Ram Shriram, and Ann Winblad are among the speakers.)
Video Information (Via Fora.Tv)
The industry’s leading visionaries rate and debate what technology trends will emerge during the year ahead.
Speaker Backgrounds (Via Fora.Tv)
1. Steve Jurvetson is a Managing Director of Draper Fisher Jurvetson, a leading venture capital firm with affiliate offices around the world. He was the founding VC investor in Hotmail (MSFT), Interwoven (IWOV), and Kana (KANA).
2. Vinod Khosla is the president and CEO of Khosla Ventures. In 1986, he became a general partner Kleiner Perkins, where he took on Intel’s monopoly with Nexgen/AMD. In 2004, Khosla started Khoslaventures in order to create technologies that can have a beneficial effect and economic impact on society.
3. Tony Perkins is a Venture Partner with DFJ Frontier. He is the creator and former editor-in-chief of Red Herring magazine and the CEO of AlwaysOn, an interactive online network for technology insiders. Perkins co-authored The Internet Bubble: Inside the Overvalued World of High-Tech Stocks (HarperBusiness, 1999), a book that foretold the dot-com bust.
4. Jason Pontin – As editor in chief, Jason Pontin is responsible for the editorial direction of the award-winning magazine Technology Review and TechnologyReview.com. Pontin took on the role of publisher in September 2005, overseeing all aspects of the company’s growth strategy, which includes a rapidly expanding website, specialty e-newsletters, an aggressive international expansion, and signature events, such as the annual Emerging Technologies Conference at MIT
5. Joe Schoendorf - has been active in high technology industries for nearly forty years. Schoendorf is a member and strategic partner of the World Economic Forum and has served as a consultant to the Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI) in Japan
6. Ram Shriram – Founder and Managing Partner at Sherpalo Ventures. He started the firm in January, 2000. Mr. Shriram is an active angel investor and has been a technology industry insider for over 25 years.
7. Ann Winblad is a Partner at Hummer Winblad Venture Partners. She began her career as a systems programmer at the Federal Reserve Bank. In 1976 Winblad co-founded Open Systems, Inc., a top selling accounting software company, with a $500 investment. Winblad operated Open Systems profitably for six years and then sold it for over $15 million.
