Founders of Twitter, Path, Digg, and TaskRabbit heading to MIT
The first, this coming Monday, features Jack Dorsey, a co-founder and chairman of Twitter and CEO of Square, a San Francisco mobile payments company that just raised $200 million in funding. (The company has raised $341 million in total, from investors like Starbucks and Citi Ventures.) Dorsey's talk Monday evening at the Stata Center is for MIT students only — basically, a recruiting event — though he'll also be holding court with local media.
The second event, Startup Bootcamp, is free and open to anyone, on October 8th at Kresge Auditorium. In addition to local lights like Crashlytics co-founder Jeff Seibert and Paula Long of DataGravity, the speaker roster includes Dave Morin, founder of the mobile social network Path; Digg and Milk founder Kevin Rose; and Leah Busque, above, the founder of TaskRabbit, a micro-labor startup that was born in Cambridge, but is now headquartered in San Francisco.
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About Scott Kirsner Scott Kirsner was part of the team that launched Boston.com in 1995, and has been writing a column for the Globe since 2000. His work has also appeared in Wired, Fast Company, The New York Times, BusinessWeek, Newsweek, and Variety. Scott is also the author of the books "Fans, Friends & Followers" and "Inventing the Movies," was the editor of "The Convergence Guide: Life Sciences in New England," and was a contributor to "The Good City: Writers Explore 21st Century Boston." Scott also helps organize several local events on entrepreneurship, including the Nantucket Conference and Future Forward. Here's some background on how Scott decides what to cover, and how to pitch him a story idea.
Events
May 16 & 17: Convergence Forum on Life Sciences
Speakers from Bristol-Myers, Millennium Pharmaceuticals, and Biogen Idec talk about the next ten years of the biopharma business. Plus, journalist David Ewing Duncan on radical life extension. (I'm hosting.)
May 22: MIT Sloan CIO Symposium
Chief information officers from Guess, Haemonetics, Intel and other companies talk discuss "architecting the enterprise of the future."
June 25: TEDxBoston
The oldest and biggest of the locally-organized TED events is back, at the Seaport World Trade Center. Tickets are free, but tough to get. Also streams on the web and airs on WBUR.
