Meet Dave Meet SlideShare

Slide 1: meet Dave

Slide 2: A.K.A...

Slide 3: Facebook fanboy & startup mentor

Slide 4: Dave likes to hang out at...

Slide 5: the University Cafe

Slide 6: ...and give startups the religion of metrics.

Slide 7: But he cannot meet everyone...

Slide 8: he has conferences to organize...

Slide 9: ...and two doting kids he wants to spend time with

Slide 10: He creates presentations to get his ideas across

Slide 11: He used to email them around

Slide 12: After a conference, he would take business cards & email them individually

Slide 13: One day, he read on TechCrunch about...

Slide 15: Michael Arrington called it the YouTube of PowerPoint

Slide 16: Dave tried it and was hooked! He now uploads to SlideShare before giving a talk

Slide 17: When someone asks for slides, he says "go to my SlideShare page"

Slide 18: even better: people who missed the talk still find his presentation!

Slide 19: His ideas are spreading, new people find his slides everyday on SlideShare. Dave is a happy man!

Slide 20: He met Rashmi, the CEO of SlideShare who invited him to become an advisor

Slide 21: Joining other advisors... Hal, Ross & Guy Hal Varian Ross Mayfield Guy Kawasaki

Slide 22: Dave believed in the company and decided to invest

Slide 23: Soon others joined him in investing in SlideShare... ... Jonathan, Ariel, Yee, Saul, Mark Jonathan Abrams Ariel Poler Yee Lee Saul Klein Mark Cuban

Slide 24: ...including David & Dev from David Siminoff Dev Khare

Slide 25: These guys write bigger checks than Dave.

Slide 26: …David Siminoff has joined SlideShare’s board

Slide 27: Now SlideShare has a new office in San Francisco with orange walls

Slide 28: They‘re looking for Ruby hackers, Linux sys admins, and Community managers for one reason and one reason only...

Slide 29: ...so that people like Dave can upload even more presentations to SlideShare!

Slide 30: This presentation is inspired by Meet Henry, Photography Credits Slide 1: http://www.flickr.com/photos/bmindful/814619727/ Slide 3: a presentation genre that was born (and http://www.flickr.com/photos/laughingsquid/101090223/ Slide 5: spread) through SlideShare. http://www.flickr.com/photos/stephanedelbecque/374013457/ Slide 8: http://www.flickr.com/photos/briansolis/1525665343/ Slide 9: http://www.flickr.com/photos/500hats/401205572/ Slide 10: We would like to thank Scott Schwertly who http://www.flickr.com/photos/chrisheuer/1522349266/ Slide 15: created it, and all the SlideShare users who http://www.flickr.com/photos/somewhatfrank/228420073 Slide 17: share their presentations on the site and inspire http://www.flickr.com/photos/500hats/46970614/ us everyday. Slide 20: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jdlasica/2442189648/ Slide 22: http://www.flickr.com/photos/joi/2111841779 http://www.guykawasaki.com/about/pictures.shtml Slide 24: http://www.flickr.com/photos/niallkennedy/249112474/ -the SlideShare team http://www.flickr.com/photos/joi/2191583197/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/flawedartist/757959644/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/eschipul/437288561/ http://yeeguy.com/photos/