By Ying Chen, Samantha Loren, & Daniel Torres Day 5 – Friday, March 29: Ouster We all feel a rush of excitement when we think about tech startups. Imagine making technical breakthroughs on daily basis, growing from a few buddies working in a garage to a proper company with multiple divisions, capital flooding in from […]
By Hao Gao & Shalin Shah Day 5 – Friday, March 29: Nextlaw We were fortunate to have a meeting with John Fernandez and Maya Markovich of Nextlaw. The meeting was held at the Dentons office in downtown San Francisco. The MSL EnTP team arrived at the office on the last morning of our trip. […]
By Ying Chen, Samantha Loren, & Daniel Torres Day 4 – Thursday, March 28: Atrium The MSL is similar to a startup in and of itself. Thus, it was a great privilege for the EnTP team to visit Atrium, the revolutionary legal firm that is shaking up Silicon Valley. Co-founded by the incredible Justin Kan, […]
By Hao Gao & Shalin Shah Day 4 – Thursday, March 28: Cisco The MSL EnTP team visited Cisco Meraki, a subsidiary of Cisco that is focused on creating simple and effective cloud managed IT. In a big conference room, Mark Chandler and Steve Harmon greeted the MSL EnTP team with two cute pups in […]
By Xiaolei Cheng, Shao-Hsuan Kao, & Kat Klein Day 3 – Wednesday, March 27: Tarun Wadhwa, Day One Insights Day three of the EnTP trip concluded with Tarun Wadhwa’s presentation at Northwestern San Francisco. It was a highlight of our trip. As CEO of Day One Insights, an academic, and an acclaimed writer, Tarun illustrated […]
By Jay Jiang and Sage Yang Day 3 – Wednesday, March 27: Google AI On the third day of the EnTP trip, we visited Google’s Mountain View campus and had the incredible opportunity to chat with Anand Babu, Director of New Products for Google AI. Google AI, formerly Google Research and Google Brain, is Google’s artificial […]
By Xiaolei Cheng, Shao-Hsuan Kao, and Kat Klein Day 3 – Wednesday, March 27: Gilead On the third day of our EnTP trip, we visited Gilead Sciences, one of the largest bio-pharmaceutical companies in the world. Founded in 1987, Gilead’s mission is to advance the care of patients worldwide who suffer from life-threatening diseases. Gilead […]
By Ying Chen, Samantha Loren, and Daniel Torres Day 3 – Wednesday, March 27: Wildcat Venture Partners It’s not every day that a group of students interested in entrepreneurship get behind-the-scenes access to the venture capitalists that fund some of the most successful startups in Silicon Valley. Needless to say, we were bursting with questions: […]
By Jay Jiang & Sage Yang Day 2 – Tuesday, March 26: The Relish After a full day in the Silicon Valley, comprising our visit to Morrison Foerster and SAP, we returned to downtown San Francisco for our last meeting of the day with Ashley Wellington-Fahey, the CEO of The Relish Media Group – a […]
By Xiaolei Cheng, Shao-Hsuan Kao, & Kat Klein Day 2 – Tuesday, March 26: SAP Ariba On day two of our EnTP adventure, we visited SAP Ariba, a subsidiary of the software giant, SAP. SAP Ariba leads the market in spend management by assisting companies with controlling spending and more easily connecting buyers and suppliers. […]