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Fireside between the founders of Stripe and Bolt: building global companies

John Collison (Stripe), Markus Villig (Bolt)

Founder Dynamics during Scaling

Niko Bonatsos (General Catalyst), Harry Stebbings (Twenty Minute VC)

Sequencing and Structuring Growth: What to Prioritize at Each Stage of Your Startup Journey

Danny Rimer (Index), Dylan Field (Figma)

Keeping Your Product Relevant

Des Traynor (Intercom)

Is VC the Right Path for Your Company: Bootstrap or VC?

Ben Narasin (NEA), Mikael Thuneberg (Supermetrics)

What Can Corporate Venture Capital Bring To the Table?

Matthew Garratt (Silicon Foundry), Jason Karaian (Quartz)

How to Deliver the Perfect Pitch

Jillian Manus (Structure Capital)

A Moment with an Iconic Venture Capitalist: Michael Moritz

Michael Moritz (Sequoia), Mika Salmi (Lakestar)

Around the World in VC: What Role Do Diversity & Inclusiveness Play?

Tugce Ergul (Angel Labs), Robyn Ward, Martin Hauge (Fluent Digital), Tracy Doree (Kindred)

How UX has powered Klarna's success

Sebastian Siemiatkowski (Klarna), Greg Williams (WIRED UK)

Casey Winters: Why Customer Onboarding is the Most Crucial Part of Your Growth Strategy

Casey Winters

PRODUCT JOURNEY OF CANVA

Cameron Adams (Canva)

Don't Let Early Product Decisions Haunt You Later

Des Traynor (Intercom)

The Different Phases of Product Development - from an idea to a world-class product

Tiina Nieminen (Varjo)

The Playbook for Humanising Diversity and Inclusion

Damien Hooper-Campbell (Ebay)

Advice on on-boarding & hiring from people leads of Asana, Reddit & Spotify

Katarina Berg (Spotify), Anna Binder (Asana), Katelin Holloway (Reddit)

How to Scale Your Product to 140 Countries in 5 Years by Alice Newton-Rex from WorldRemit

Alice Newton-Rex (WorldRemit)

Performance Marketing: What Founders Need to Know

Eva Leach (Lifesum), Christian Meerman (Cherry Ventures), Gessica Bicego (Blinkist), Stewart Rogers (Venture Beat).

How to Build Your Board and Make the Most Out of It

Taavet Hinrikus (Transferwise), Luciana Lixandru (Accel), Tim Sadler (Tessian), Toby Coppel (Mosaic Ventures)

THE GENDER GAP IN EQUITY COMPENSATION

April Underwood (#Angels)

Amazon CTO Werner Vogels on how to stay innovative

Werner Vogels (Amazon)

Steve Jurvetson & the Big Think

Steve Jurvetson (Future Ventures)

Building an Inclusive Tech Industry

Check Warner (Diversity VC), Niklas Zennström (Atomico)

Visions for the Future of Computing by Alexandra Wright-Gladstein

Alexandra Wright-Gladstein (Ayar Labs)

Dealing With Entrepreneurial Pressure

Nora Rosendahl (Fifth Corner), Tomi Kaukinen (serial entrepreneur), James Hewitt (Hintsa Performance)

Pre-seed, Angels, Micro-funds: What’s Happening in Early Stage VC?

Sophia Bendz (Atomico), Jeremy Yap (angel investor) Hampus Jakobsson (climate investor)

FOUNDING STORY OF TWITCH

Kevin Lin (Twitch), Dean Takahashi (Gamesbeat)

Founder Story of Adyen: Building For The Long Haul

Pieter Van Der Does (Adyen), John Thornhill (Financial Times)

Founder Story of Slack: Building Software for Humans

Cal Henderson (Slack)

Founder Story of OnePlus: How Not to Die as a Startup

Carl Pei (OnePlus)

Founder Story of Vainu: How to Build and Scale a SaaS Startup

Pietari Suvanto (Vainu), Rasmus Areskoug (TCV)

Building World-Class Consumer Tech Products

Roseanne Wincek (IVP), Antoine Nussenbaum (Felix Capital), Toby Darbyshire (Heist), Jenny Gyllander (Backed VC).

Surfing Big Market Waves: Lessons From Building Category-Defining Gaming Startups

Kristian Segelstråle (Super Evil Megacorp), Jussi Laakkonen (Applifier)

HOW TO BUILD A PRODUCT THAT PEOPLE TRUST WITH THEIR LIVES

Claire Novorol (Ada Health), Victoria Turk (Wired UK)

FIRESIDE CHAT WITH THE FOUNDER & CEO OF SUPERHUMAN

Rahul Vohra (Superhuman), Harry Stebbings (Twenty Minute VC)

DARING TO TAKE THAT RISK - SUJAY TYLE ON FIRST STEPS TO ENTREPRENEURSHIP

Sujay Tyle (Frontier Car Group), Larry Madovo (BBC Africa)

What does P/M fit look like?

Peter Reinhardt (Segment)

How Oatly Cracked Consumer Marketing Without A Marketing Team

John Schoolcraft (Oatly)

From founder to funder: Why operational experience is crucial for VCs

Jessica Schultz (Northzone), Bernard Liautaud (Balderton Capital)

Distributed teams: more efficient, more inclusive

Sandra Uddbäck (Mapillary), Sarah Nöckel (Dawn Capital)

Founder Story of Vinted and Deliveroo: What To Pack When Taking Your Brand Across The Border

LUCIANA LIXANDRU (Accel), Thomas Plantenga (Vinted), Inés Ures (Deliveroo)

STATE OF EUROPEAN TECH: WHERE ARE WE TODAY AND WHAT'S NEXT?

Tom Wehmeir (Atomico), Chris Grew (Orrick), John Collison (Stripe), Linda Griffin (King)

THE EARLY STEPS FROM AN IDEA TO A PRODUCT: FIRESIDE CHAT WITH CO-FOUNDER AND CEO OF MASTERCLASS

Eric Liaw (IVP), David Rogier (Masterclass)

FOUNDING CEOS OF WOLT & SMARTLY.IO REFLECT ON THE FIRST FIVE YEARS OF EXPANSION

Miki Kuusi (Wolt), Kristo Ovaska (Smartly.io), Linda Liukas (HelloRuby)

Work In Progress: The Companies That Will Define The Future of Work

Sarah Cannon (Index), Sophie Adelman (Whitehat), Karri Saarinen (Linear)

When does bootstrapping make sense?

Silja Litvin (Psycapps), SACHIN DEV DUGGAL (Builder.ai), Maria Ritola (Iris.ai)

Entrepreneurial Philosophies That Gave Birth To Myspace, Jam City & Unity

Chris Dewolfe (Jam City), David Helgason (Unity)

Founder story: A bootstrapped unicorn, Checkout.com

Ophelia Brown (Blossom Capital), Guillaume Pousaz (Checkout.com)

Digital Identity Crisis

Matus Maar (Talis Capital), Husayn Kassai (Onfido)

Breaking Taboos: How to Solve Problems That The World Refuses to Talk About?

Andrea Barrica (O.school), Valentina Milanova (Daye), Sophia Bendz (Atomico)

Founder Story of Lilium: Your Taxi Has Arrived and Is Ready for Takeoff

Remo Gerber (Lilium)

How to build and sustain a great team during fast scaling

Avi Meir (Travelperk)

Reaching +$1B from the CFO's Perspective: The Balance Between Creativity and Control

Linda Höglund (Luminar)

Discord: Community Building for Customer Acquisition

Eros Resmini (Discord), Eric Peckham (Techcrunch)

Consumer Trust in Cryptocurrencies

Meltem Demirors (Coinshares)

Founder Story of Boom Supersonic: World’s Fastest Civil Aircraft

Joe Wilding (Boom Supersonic), NATALIA DROZDIAK (Bloomberg)

The importance of thinking proactively about policy

Linda Griffin (European Tech Alliance), Flora Coleman (Transferwise)

The Success of Fortnite: A Psychology and UX Perspective

Celia Hodent

Eligo Biosciences – hacking the human microbiome

Xavier Duportet (Eligo Bioscience), Robin Wauters (Tech.eu)

83% of startups fail—how to set yourself up for success

Diane Bryant (Formerly Google Cloud & Intel)

The Next Chapter of European Exits

Christopher Ahlberg (Recorded Future), Bernard Liautaud (Balderton Capital)

Founder Story of Ynsect: How to Navigate Regulatory Landscape

Antoine Hubert (Ynsect), Gemma Milne (journalist)

Softbank Vision Fund: A two-year checkup with the giant

Lydia Jett (Softbank), John Thornhill (Financial Times)

The Handbook For Expanding to Emerging Markets

Oscar Pierre (Glovo), Amy Lewin (Sifted)

Life in Small Giant Games after Zynga acquisition

Timo Soininen (Small Giant Games), Matt Bromberg (Zynga)

We need alternatives to the Single-Minded Pursuit of VC

Michele Romanow (Clearbanc), Harry Stebbings (Twenty Minute VC)

Building Online Platfroms That Balance Freedom of Expression With Decency

Alex Feerst (Neuralink), Pauliina Suominen (Soaked by Slush)

The state of VC: Fireside with Sequoia, Lightspeed, General Catalyst and NEA

Katherine Boyle (General Catalyst), Andrew Reed (Sequoia), Rytis Vitkauskas (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Crystal Huang (NEA)

Founder Story – How Voi & Tier are navigating the regulatory jungle

Fredrik Hjelm (Voi Technology), Lawrence Leuschner (TIER Mobility), Callum Burroughs (Business Insider)

How to create a comms strategy that scales

Bryce Keane (Atomico), D-J Collins (Milltown Partners), Aoife Houlihan (Klarna)

Deeptech: Investing to Solve Our Biggest Problems

James Joaquin (Obvious Ventures), Sofia Hmich (Future Positive Capital)

How Do We Get CO2 out of the Atmosphere - and Where Should We Put It?

Hampus Jakobsson (BlueYard), Antero Vartia (Compensate), Katariina Helaniemi (Fifty Years)

Privacy by Design from the Start

Seth Pierrepont (Accel), Jason du Preez (Privitar)

Blockchain, from a buzzword to reality

Lily Liu (Earn.com), Kathleen Breitman (Tezos)

Gaming: Antisocial to Social

Selcuk Atli (Bunch), David Gardner, Kelly Mayes (Roblox), Langer Lee (Mixi)

Founder Story of Deposit Solutions: Symbiosis Between Startups, Corporations and Consumers

Tim Sievers (Deposit Solutions), Erthan Can (Multiple Funds)

From idea to product when the market doesn't exist yet

Edith Harbaugh (LaunchDarkly), Chad Fowler (Microsoft)

SEO: Optimize for intent, not keywords

Ethan Smith (Graphite)

WHY DO WE QUIT OUR JOBS?

Philip Chambers (Peakon)

Founder story: From B2B to B2C, Tink's pivot

Fredrik Hedberg (Tink), Amy Lewin (Sifted)

Employee attraction and retention today

Cara Brennan Allamano (Udemy), Julia Hämäläinen (Smartly.io)

HOW TO BUILD A MORE INCLUSIVE WORK ENVIRONMENT

Jessica Collier (Spot), Ginny Fahs (#MovingForward), Gené Teare (Crunchbase)

MANAGING CHAOS: RESPONSIBILITIES & CHALLENGES OF A STARTUP COO

Tammy Nam (Picsart)

ONLINE HARASSMENT: THE PERSPECTIVE OF THE FIRST “JANE DOE”

Brittan Heller (Harvard Kennedy School)

BITCOIN VERSUS BIG BROTHER: FINANCIAL RIGHTS ARE HUMAN RIGHTS

Alex Gladstein (Human Rights Foundation)

The Value of Diversity and Equality by Kjartan Slette

Kjarttan Slette (Unacast)

Founder Story of Casper

Neil Parikh (Casper)

Founder Story of NFX

Pete Flint (NFX)

Founder Story of Blinkist: How to Build a Successful Consumer Subscription Business

Holger Seim (Blinkist)

Founder Story of Mapbox

Eric Gundersen (Mapbox)

Founder Story of MessageBird

Robert Vis (MessageBird)

Founder Story of TomTom: Leading Your Company Through Tough Times

Corinne Vigreux (TomTom)

Founder Story of Trello

Michael Pryor (Trello)

Founder Story of Delivery Hero

Lukasz Gadowski (Delivery Hero)

Founder Story of Truecaller: Scaling in the Next Billion Markets

Alan Mamedi (Truecaller)

Founder Story of Zynga

Mark Pincus (Zynga)

Founder Story of NIO: Electric Cars of China

William Li (NIO)

Founder Story of Taxify: Europe’s Youngest Unicorn Founder

Markus Villig (Bolt)

Founder Story of Eventbrite: From 50 No’s to IPO

Julia Hartz (Eventbrite)

How to Build a Culture to Maximize Product Development Speed

Kristo Ovaska (Smartly.io)

How Best to Create a World-Conquering Team?

Kat Manalac (Y-Combinator), Alice Bentinck (Entrepreneur First)

Can Self-Organization Work or Is It Just a Myth?

Niklas Jansen (Blinkist),Vishal Vasisth (Obvious Ventures), Kristo Ovaska (Smartly.io)

The Importance of Scaling Yourself While Growing Your Company by VSCO Founder CEO Joel Flory

Joel Flory (VSCO)

Building a Successful Entrepreneur-VC Relationship

Leila Zegna (Kindred), Manu Gupta (Lakestar), Daniel Glasner (Cherry VC)

How to Pitch Your Startup

Kat Manalac (Y-Combinator)

The Growth Engine That Took Hotjar from €0 to €10 Million in Just 2.5 Years

Johan Malmberg (Hotjar)

Laying The Foundation for Sustainable Growth

Gustaf Alströmer (Y-Combinator)

From Funnel to Flywheel

Brian Halligan (Hubspot)

Founder Story: Scaling a Consumer Company

Chris Thür (Yousician)

Daniel Ek, Niklas Zennström, Ilkka Paananen: How We Failed Our Way to Success

Daniel Ek (Spotify), Niklas Zennström (Atomico), Ilkka Paananen (Supercell), Robin Wauters (Tech.eu)

Founder Story of King

Riccardo Zacconi (King), Simon Levene (Mosaic Ventures)

How to analyze and interpret your customer data

Frost Li (Growth Advisor)