Expanding and Winning in the US
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ᵔ▾ᵔa16z, Operators & Friends, and Extraordinary are hosting an invite-only session at Slush for founders and builders looking to take their companies to the next level in the US market.
Location - in Slush venue / details on approved RSVP
No Slush ticket needed.
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12:00 - Doors open, drinks served
12:30 - 13:00 - Fireside chat with Sigil Wen (Founder, Extraordinary and Thiel Fellow), Gorkem Yurtseven (co-founder and CTO of fal) and Elias Torres (co-founder & CEO of Agency) as we unpack what it truly takes to expand and build category winning companies in the US and between continents - from navigating immigration and fundraising to building local teams and winning new markets.
13:30 - Doors close
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Sigil Wen has helped hundreds of top global founders and tech leaders secure O-1 visas and launch in the US - including Andrej Karpathy (ex-OpenAI), Anton Osika (Lovable), and Guillermo Rauch (Vercel).
Gorkem Yurtseven scaled the company from $2M to over $100M in ARR in less than 2 years, providing the infrastructure layer for multimodal AI models to over 2 millions developers and more than 300 enterprises.
Elias Torres, engineer and serial founder. First company acquired by HubSpot, where he scaled the engineering organization from 5 to 150. Sold his second company for +$1bn. Now building Agency - AI agents for businesses that care about their customers.
- a16z, Operators & Friends & Extraordinary
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