Overview
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Bloomberg, Cornell Tech, and Tech:NYC invite you to join us for the latest installment of the Cornell Tech @ Bloomberg series, featuring former Etsy CEO Chad Dickerson and Google VP of Product Management Bradley Horowitz in conversation with Caroline Hyde of Bloomberg Television.
Over the past 25 years, Bradley and Chad have led companies from startup stage to IPO and worked at some of the most recognizable tech companies around. Both began their careers in online media, Horowitz at Virage and Dickerson at CNN and then Salon. The pair overlapped at Yahoo, where they launched the company’s Brickhouse incubator. Following Yahoo, Horowitz joined Google and Dickerson became the CTO, and then CEO, of Etsy, which he led to a 14x growth in revenue and an IPO in 2015.
At Google, Horowitz has overseen several of the company’s best-known products, including Gmail, Google News, and Google Photos. He recently launched Area 120, Google’s in-house incubator. Together, Dickerson and Horowitz are currently teaching a course at Cornell Tech, on the opportunities and challenges of navigating complex cultures to drive innovation within big companies.
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Agenda
- 5:30PM
Cocktail reception begins
- 6:00PM
Doors close, conversation starts
- 6:45PM
Audience Q&A with Cornell Tech students
- 7:00PM
Networking and hors d’oeuvres to follow
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PLEASE NOTE: Seating is limited and registered attendees will be seated on a first come, first served basis. Doors close promptly at the top of the hour. Individuals arriving late may be turned away from the building. No walk-ins allowed.
Questions: techevents@bloomberg.net
Featured speakers
Chad Dickerson
Chad Dickerson was CEO of Etsy from July 2011 to May 2017. He grew Etsy from a chaotic startup to a publicly-traded company, growing revenue 14x during his tenure while leading intense organizational growth and change. Under Chad’s leadership, Etsy was known for its leadership in combining high-growth business with an intense commitment to values-led culture and social responsibility.
Chad has a deep engineering background and served as CTO at Etsy from September 2008 until stepping into the CEO role three years later. Before joining Etsy, Chad held leadership roles in technology and product management at companies of many sizes and stages: Yahoo, IDG/InfoWorld, Salon, CNN, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and The (Raleigh, NC) News & Observer.
Bradley Horowitz
Bradley Horowitz is a Vice President of Product Management at Google. Most recently he helped create Area 120, Google’s incubator for internally-sourced innovation. He’s led a large number of products, programs and initiatives at Google — including Google for Entrepreneurs, Google Photos, Gmail, Google Voice, Blogger, and Google News.
Before joining Google in February 2008, Horowitz was Yahoo’s vice president of Advanced Development where he drove the acquisitions of Flickr and MyBlogLog, launched the Brickhouse incubator and developed new products like Yahoo! Pipes. Additionally, he was responsible for the company’s initiative to open up its platform which included overseeing the Yahoo Developer Network (YDN). Previously, he was co-founder and CTO of Virage, where he oversaw the technical direction of the company from its founding through its IPO and eventual acquisition by Autonomy.