Private Fireside with Leigh Marie Braswell - First Product Manager at Scale AI to now leading investments at the frontier of AI
Leigh Marie Braswell was the first Product Manager at Scale AI, where she helped grow the company from 0 to a multi-billion-dollar unicorn.
Today, she’s at the forefront of venture capital as a Partner at Kleiner Perkins, investing in some of the most consequential AI companies. She was a lead investor in Windsurf ($2.4B exit to Google), Neon DB ($1B acquisition by Databricks), Chronosphere ($3.35B acquisition by Palo Alto Networks), and many more.
Join us for an intimate fireside chat at Poetic HQ, where Leigh Marie was the first investor and led the Series A. Markie Wagner (CEO, Poetic) will sit down with Leigh Marie to unpack her path and her predictions, including
studying Math with CS at MIT
scaling Scale from 0 to 1, as an early engineer and product manager
winning investments within leading AI companies
what the consequential companies of the future look like
You'll hear what she learned building in the early, chaotic days of AI, what she's excited about in new startups, the career decisions that got her here, and how she's seeing AI being actually deployed in the real world.
The evening:
📍 Poetic Office
🕕 6:00p: Doors open, mingling, food & drinks
🎙️ 6:45p: Fireside chat with Leigh Marie facilitated by Markie Wagner
🍸 7:15p: More mingling, food & drinks
🎉 8:30p: Event ends
Space is limited. RSVP to save your spot.
One week prior to the event, we will send RSVPs a questionnaire to submit their pressing questions, some of which Markie will ask Leigh Marie.