Jasmine Cho is a Pittsburgh-based artist, author, and cookie activist most known for using portrait cookies to elevate representation for Asian Americans & Pacific Islanders. She is also a Food Network Champion and the Founder of Yummyholic. Jasmine believes in spreading the word about the therapeutic impacts of baking and is currently leading the charge on studying how bake therapy can impact mental health and creativity.
Jim Gibbs is the cofounder and CEO of Meter Feeder. His startup got into the 2016 winter cohort of Y Combinator, the world’s most prestigious tech incubator.
After the initial process, Jim moved his company back from Silicon Valley to Braddock, PA. Why?
Jim will explain the benefits, the challenges, and what he’s learned from this rare story.
Marco Marandiz is a Founder and CEO for Drop Party, a platform for massive eccomerce sales & launches.
His platform has been used by Will & Jada Smith, Russell Westbrook, and Patrick Mahomes to generate major sales.
He was previously a strategist for high-potential DTC brands and has led digital product teams at HomeAway and CapitalOne, where he built and shipped products that served hundreds of millions of active users each month.
Jason Wolfe is an entrepreneur through and through. After growing up in the Milton Hershey School, an orphanage founded by Milton Hershey, Jason found himself living out of his car.
He taught himself how to code by using books at the local library and CompUSA's 'Building the Perfect Web'. This led to building the first coupon website and launching his first internet business. From 1995 to 2000, Jason built the business, raising $500k in VC from Jupiter Media and garnering >$1 million in annual sales and 20 million page views per month.
MyCoupons.com sold for roughly $23 million in 2000, shortly before the DotCom bubble burst.
Jason rolled over his proceeds into successive wins with his companies Direct Response Technologies (acquired by Digital River for $22 million), Jambo Media (for $15 million) and Giftcards.com (by Blackhawk Network for $120 million).