Design Fireside Chat with Jonathan Arena, Co-Founder @ New Generation
Join SPC visiting partner, Soleio, for a series of design focused fireside chats. He will be joined by Jonathan Arena, Co-Founder of New Generation.
Event Details
11:30am: Doors Open
12:00pm-1:00pm: Fireside Chat
Soleio is a designer-turned-investor who led design efforts at Facebook, Messenger, then Dropbox. He now partners with ambitious startups to build industry-leading design teams and products, such as Figma, Vercel, Perplexity, Legora and Granola.
Jonathan is a designer and co-founder of New Generation, where he is building AI storefronts for retail brands.
Over five years at Facebook, he led design for Portal, developed in the company’s Advanced Research Lab, Building 8, as well as core social features such as friending, tagging, notifications, and photos. At Cruise, he designed the consumer experience for its autonomous rideshare vehicle. He also led the redesign of Patreon’s mobile and web products.
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