Startup Cafe: Founder of NOMO
☕️Startup Cafe: Founder of NOMO
Agenda
8:45 - 9:30 am • Coffee and Socialize
9:30- 11:00 am • Talk and Presentation
January 21st, 2026
About: Leonardo Bursztyn
Leonardo Bursztyn (PhD, Harvard) is the founder and CEO of NOMO Technologies and the Saieh Family Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago.
He is a leading scholar on the economics of social interactions, with extensive academic publications and regular coverage in major media outlets. He recently launched NOMO, a behavioral-science-driven app that uses incentives and technology to help people scroll less and reconnect in the real world.
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About: Chaya Rusk, Program Director @ KINN Phonetics: (CHĀY-uh)
Chaya is a systems thinker with more than a decade of expertise in operations centered on people, process, and efficiency. Chaya's experience spans startups to a Fortune 5 healthcare organization, and a global innovation consultancy in between.
Whether driving conscious business practices or reimagining the future of healthcare, Chaya brings a human-centered perspective to complex operational challenges, guided by the conviction that the most effective systems are designed with people at their core.
ABOUT The KINN
The KINN is a membership network, accelerator, and collaborative workspace for conscious entrepreneurs, based in Venice, CA. Running tailored inner development and business accelerator programs for startups, providing executive coaching, accountability, and access to a top-tier LA-based community of entrepreneurs, creatives, intrapreneurs, and investors. If you're interested in learning more about KINN Membership, please visit http://thekinn.co/apply
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