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I couldn't be more excited about hosting Ben Silbermann in one of his first live interviews since taking Pinterest into the stratosphere. Frankly we are honored that he would take to the Startup Grind hot seat and follow an amazing lineup of founders and investors that we've had in the past 18 months. As usual we will be hosting it at AOL's campus in Palo Alto and the event is sponsored by our friends at Bing Booster. Unfortunately it is completely sold out but you can still get tickets for the next two Bay Area events in March including the founder of Zaarly and the founder of Tagged. Please come early if you want to get a seat. We're going to be standing room only.
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.
