PandoLand

One day pseudo-conference run by Pando.com.

Jun'2016 in Chicago - basically Sarah Lacy doing 13 interviews in a day.

Dick Costolo

• Physical Fitness Start Up Chorus: lite social accountability, realistic process
• serial entrepreneurship: breadth gives good lessons
• Twitter pre-IPO share market, forced by trying to keep num shareholders low (threshold raised since then), nightmare
• Twitter Cyber-Bullying: really hard to automate rules, esp content. Need to make bullying harder than policing.
• Chicago creativity (startups, comedy): colleges (all midwest)

NancyJo Sales: teenage girls, social media

• (generally intellectually sloppy)
• CDC speculating cause of increased suicide
• slut-shaming vs prude-shaming
• sexualization, objectification, and Social Media PersonalBrandMgmt
• Cyber-Bullying
• Tech leaders responsibility given size/importance teen girl market

Anand Sanwal: CB Insights

• (was at Kozmo)
• tons of MicroVCs
• Series A and Series B still pretty strong, later stage softer
• HotOrNot fields
• no: daily deals, flash sales, Quantified Self
• kinda: Big Data, On Demand
• hot: AI, ChatBot

Max Levchin

• still thinks of Chicago as home, though moved here from Ukraine at 16.
• did fertility tracker
• now doing Affirm, personal loans (really installment purchasing) , just raised $100M ($500M total?) (not all equity)
• Slide was useless, not serious
• joined Yahoo board because believer in MarissaM. Real problem was no mobile strategy until she got here; growth couldn't compensate for global drop in desktop.

Brian Spaly: TrunkClub (now owned by Nordstrom) (cf TimGrace) (after starting Bonobos co-founded, kicked out)

• super-positive
• should hire TheWife

Bill Ready: Brain Tree (sponsor)

• big win bets: early mobile, buy VenMo, One Touch

Matt Maloney: Grub Hub

• Skype from home, drinking beer
• BlueApron not ready for IPO
• Reality Check about On Demand, see Medium post

Marco Zappacosta ThumbTack personal projects: contractors, photographers, music lessons, tutoring, 1000 categories

• has raised $200M
• see as FutureOfWork
• no sales staff
• initial fundraising nightmare fail 42/44

VC panel: UpFront (LA) moderator, Paul Lee, LoganLaHive Belly, ...

Margaret Atwood!

Sam Yagan

• IAC owns Ok Cupid, Tinder, Match Com, Plenty Of Fish, HowAboutWe, ChemistryCom!

Sean Sullivan, HealthNetwork (sponsor)

• not a broker, creates conflict of interest
• most places sell your data widely
• BootStrap, based in Florida

Jason Hirschhorn

• sold something to MTV 2000
• MySpace co-president
• had heart attack
• REDEF content curation newsletter

Jimmy Chamberlin https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Chamberlin

• was drummer Smashing Pumpkins
• CEO LiveOne
• Record Labels have no reason to exist