Connect with Mehran Sahami, Mike Trigg, and Chris Yeh for in a conversation about the growing identity crisis within the tech industry Wednesday, October 19 at 6:30pm (PDT).
This event is in-person at HanaHaus Palo Alto (456 University Avenue Palo Alto, CA 94301).
Details
Join Stanford professor, early Google engineer, and co-author of System Error: Where Big Tech Went Wrong and How We Can Reboot, Mehran Sahami, and author of the upcoming satirical corporate thriller, Bit Flip, and Silicon Valley veteran, Mike Trigg in a conversation about the growing identity crisis within the tech industry.
From gentrification to gender inequality, data privacy to teen depression, the two will delve into the dark side of Big Tech and what to do about it—a topic both authors explore in their work moderated by Entrepreneur & NY Times Best Selling Author, Chris Yeh.
Event Format
Live in-person event featuring an on-stage one-on-one discussion, audience Q&A, and post-event reception and book signing.
Mehran Sahami, Panelist
Mehran is the James and Ellenor Chesebrough Professor in the School of Engineering and Associate Chair for Education in Computer Science at Stanford University. He is also the Robert and Ruth Halperin University Fellow in Undergraduate Education. Sahami earned his BS and PhD from Stanford University.
Prior to joining the Stanford faculty, he was a Senior Research Scientist at Google and a Senior Engineering Manager at Epiphany. Sahami is co-author, with fellow Stanford faculty Rob Reich and Jeremy Weinstein, of System Error: Where Big Tech Went Wrong and How We Can Reboot.
• Stanford profile: https://profiles.stanford.edu/mehran-sahami
• Book site: https://www.systemerrorbook.com
• Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/3046943.Mehran_Sahami
• Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/mehran_sahami
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mehransahami
Mike Trigg, Panelist
Mike Trigg spent over 20 years in Silicon Valley’s tech industry before becoming an author. He has been a founder, executive, and employee at dozens of venture-backed start-ups, including Hightail/YouSendIt, hi5, and Epiphany. He has also been an angel investor, advisor, and EIR with several venture capital funds, and a contributor to TechCrunch, Entrepreneur, and Fast Company.
Born in Kentucky and raised in Wisconsin, Trigg earned a BA from Northwestern University and an MBA from University of California, Berkeley. He lives in Menlo Park, California, with his wife and two sons. Bit Flip (SparkPress, 2022) is his first novel.
• Author site: https://www.miketrigg.com/
• Author blog: https://www.miketrigg.com/blog
• Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/mike_trigg
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MikeTriggAuthor
• Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/mike_trigg
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mike_trigg254/
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/triggmike/
Chris Yeh, Moderator
Chris Yeh is the co-founder of the Blitzscaling Academy, which teaches individuals and organizations how to plan for and execute on hypergrowth, and of Blitzscaling Ventures, which invests in the world's fastest-growing startups. Chris has founded, advised, or invested in over 100 high-tech startups since 1995, including companies like Ustream (investor, advisor, CEO) and UserTesting.com (NYSE: USER; advisor).
He is the co-author, along with Reid Hoffman, of Blitzscaling: The Lighting-fast Path to Building Massively Valuable Companies, and the co-author, along with Reid Hoffman and Ben Casnocha, of the New York Times bestseller, The Alliance: Managing Talent in the Networked Age. Chris earned two degrees from Stanford University, with distinction in both, and an MBA from Harvard Business School, where he was named a Baker Scholar.
About HanaHaus:
HanaHaus is a community workspace that combines the best aspects of café and coworking culture and cultivates a dynamic atmosphere for innovation. The concept of HanaHaus is rooted in the philosophy that great ideas spring from anywhere, and more often when people come together. HanaHaus brings people together and offers a space where they can connect, explore new ideas, and bring them to life.