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How to Build a $100B Company, Brick by Brick
May 26 @ 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Join Reynold Xin (EngSci 0T9), co-founder of Databricks, a San Francisco-based data and AI infrastructure startup valued at over $130B and one of the fastest growing tech startups in history. Reynold is a proud U of T alumnus (BASc in Engineering Science) who will share his story of a founding team that turned a research project into a business with a global footprint, over 8,000 employees and thousands of enterprise customers.
This signature event celebrating Toronto Tech Week will discuss:
- Origin story of the company and advice for young founders
- Trends, opportunities, and threats in the field of big data and artificial intelligence
- What Canadian business leaders, innovators, investors, and government need to do to compete
- Lessons learned from a life spent in Silicon Valley
- How to effectively commercialize research and what has changed since 2013 when Databricks was founded
Register to attend in-person or online.