Dinner with Poshmark & Intuit's Board Member | Berkeley/Stanford Founders
About the dinner
This is a small, highly curated gathering designed for meaningful conversation. Please complete the application thoughtfully to help shape the group and discussion with Deb.
Agenda:
Fireside Chat: Insights and reflections from Deb to kick off the evening
Jeffersonian Dinner: A single, moderated conversation shared by the entire table
Open Exchange: Unstructured time for deeper 1:1 connections and fluid discussion to close the night
Who is this for?
Early-stage founders with traction and revenue, or raised from institutional investors (Seed preferred)
Founders affiliated with Berkeley or Stanford communities or groups
What we will cover?
Signals and metrics that founders overvalue or miss
Common traps when expanding to new markets
Decisions that don't survive Series A
How to build products that acquire and retain users naturally
About Deborah
Deb is the former President and CEO of Ancestry, where she led the 40-year-old company’s product and technological transformation. Prior to joining Ancestry, she created Facebook Marketplace and built its first direct-response ad product. Previously, she led the eBay-PayPal product integration from PayPal and the eBay buyer experience.
Named one of Business Insider's most powerful female engineers and Payment Source's most influential women in payments, Deb also founded Women In Product, a community with over 30,000 members, and serves on the boards of Duke University's Pratt School of Engineering, Intuit, and Poshmark. She is a member of C100 and GoldHouse A100 and was named a 2023 NACD Directorship 100 honoree for outstanding contributions in the boardroom and for visionary corporate governance.
At the core of her success is her ability to see patterns others miss. She can identify the right community, the missing framework, the next strategic move, and connect the dots for powerful outcomes. Deb is the author of Take Back Your Power and currently working on her next book, a guide to transformation.
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