Type Private Corporation Headquarters Palo Alto, California | Industry Entrepreneurship | |
Founded Mountain View, California (February 2010 (2010-02)) Founder Derek Andersen, Spencer Nielsen Key people Derek Andersen (Co-founder and CEO)
Joel Fernandes (CTO) | ||
Startup Grind is a Silicon Valley-based organization that educates and mentors entrepreneurs through monthly business events and speaking series.
History
Derek Andersen and Spencer Nielsen founded Startup Grind in 2010. Startup Grind's first event was held in Mountain View, California in Andersen's office. In 2011, it spread to Los Angeles and New York City.
The first conference was held at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California on February 4–6, 2013. By August 2013, the organization had fifty chapters in twenty nations. Startup Grind claimed its one hundredth chapter in April 2014 and as of that date, the company existed in forty-two countries.
By 2013, it had a presence in 50 cities and 20 countries. The second conference was held at the Computer History Museum February 3–5, 2014.
As of March 2017, Startup Grind had a presence in 200 cities and 98 countries.
Startup Grind events, hosted monthly in each city, follow a 'fireside chat' format where the speaker and the host sit in armchairs facing the audience while the host asks questions. Event speakers included Clayton Christensen (The Innovator's Dilemma), Ben Silbermann (Pinterest), Vinod Khosla (Sun Microsystems), Patrick Grove (Catcha Group), Jessica Livingston (Y Combinator), Dan Fredinburg (Google X) Nigel Morris (Capital One), Eugene Stoltzfus (Rosetta Stone), Jon Steinberg (BuzzFeed), Douglas Gan (VanityTrove) and Reid Hoffman (LinkedIn). The program is powered by Google for Entrepreneurs.