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As part of the Launch conference and all the companies demoing, Naval Ravikant (founder of AngelList) has graciously agreed to do a VIP meeting and meet with the top pitch. We've been doing these for about six months on Commonred but recently decided to spin this out into it's own project. We have several VC's and other interesting people to pitch. Jeff Tannenbaum a Principal at Blue Run Ventures is also doing a contest.
You can also suggest pitches for people that you want to pitch for future meetings and tweet at them to sign up for a contest. Check it out.
For the past 15 years Derek has been building communities. He is the co-founder/CEO of Bevy, a SaaS product that helps companies like Salesforce, Atlassian, Google, Snowflake, and Adobe build virtual and in-person communities. Bevy has raised $60M from Accel, Upfront Ventures, and others. He co-founded Startup Grind, a community of 600 Chapters in 125 countries educating, inspiring, and connecting startup people. Since 2012 Startup Grind has hosted 20,000 events. In 2010 he co-founded Commonred which was acquired by Income.com. Derek also previously worked as a product manager at Electronic Arts. He currently lives in Palo Alto CA with his wife and four children.
