Posts by Veerela Wang
“Help interesting people to do interesting things” – Fireside Chat with Chris Yeh, co-author of Blitzscaling: The Lightning-Fast Path to Building Massively Valuable Companies
“I help interesting people to do interesting things.” Chris Yeh Chris Yeh, along with Reid Hoffman, Linkedin co-founder, legendary investor, and host of the award-winning Masters of Scale podcast, is the author of the global best-selling book Blitzscaling: The Lightning-Fast Path to Building Massively Valuable Companies. With a foreword by Bill Gates, Blitzscaling reveals the…
Read MoreFall 2021 Collider Cup Profile: Alina Su, CEO & Founder, NovaXS Biotech Corp
In September 2020, Alina Su (Bioengineering ’22) and her team, CTO Alex Zou, a Ph.D. student at UC Berkeley, Jonathan Xing, Booth Business School MBA, and Berkeley Bioengineering Professor Irina Conboy, founded NovaXS Biotech Corp. The team also won the Fall 2021 Collider Cup hosted by the Sutardja Center of Entrepreneurship & Technology at the University of…
Read MoreHighlights from the Innovation X Roundtable – Future of Work: Digital Transformation, Emerging Technologies, and Automation
Digital transformation is the process of using digital technologies to create new or change existing business processes in accommodation to rapidly evolving business and market requirements. COVID-19 is certainly speeding up the process of digital transformation. In 2020, according to International Data Corporation (IDC), worldwide spending on digital transformation reached $1.3 trillion. By 2025, it…
Read MoreFrom fighting cancer to founding and investing startups, life advice from Surbhi Sarna, Founder and CEO of nVision Medical, Group Partner at Y Combinator
In a special talk given at the SCET’s Spring 2022 A. Richard Newton Lecture Series, Cal alumni Surbhi Sarna tells the miraculous story of her difficult journey to founding nVision Medical and gives valuable advice to young entrepreneurs seeking investments as a current Group Partner at Y Combinator. On February 1, 2022, Surbhi Sarna shared…
Read MoreNext trends of the gaming industry with Kevin Chou, founder of SuperLayer, Rally, Forte, and Kabam
In a special talk given at the SCET’s Fall 2021 Newton Lecture Series, distinguished founders Kevin Chou and Mike Li tell the audience their stories of founding multiple startups and give advice to young entrepreneurs. “Go figure out what’s weird and wacky about yourself. Find your weird curiosity and try to think about how to…
Read MoreSCET Instructor and Executive Scholar, Shuo Chen, named Forbes 30 under 30
The Sutardja Center for Entrepreneurship & Technology (SCET) at UC Berkeley is excited to celebrate SCET instructor and executive scholar, Shuo Chen, who was just named to Forbes’ prestigious 30 under 30 list for 2022 in the venture capital category. Shuo is a new instructor at UC Berkeley SCET College of Engineering and a faculty…
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