Come and join us in this double Meet Up done by the Founder of Skype and by a group of Start-Up Chile Entrepreneurs that will do some Demos at the Coolest Hardware space in town.

Follow Up of the big event:

1. 19:00 Skype Time!

Meetup with Skype co-founder Ahti Heinla: real story behind the Skype success story.
Ahti Heinla (https://app.yesware.com/tl/61dabfe3c575d3b6105b0a4152ce14d697342a50/8a10a0f31658f2cebba48cb7baba5db1/e6083449f73e2e7a710b3a3cbfae2ac3?ytl=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2Fahtih) was one the founding engineers at Skype. He will share with us a real story of Skype early days. As active investor he will also share his views about startups and his investment philosophy today.
Jens Kasemets (https://app.yesware.com/tl/61dabfe3c575d3b6105b0a4152ce14d697342a50/8a10a0f31658f2cebba48cb7baba5db1/c8399d781c7134a8ae161600d7a2f0fe?ytl=http%3A%2F%2Fjens.kasemets.net%2F) was working at Skype from 2007 - until 2010. He will talk about Skype company culture and his lessons, what he learned working there. Talk will be moderated by Ragnar Sass (https://app.yesware.com/tl/61dabfe3c575d3b6105b0a4152ce14d697342a50/8a10a0f31658f2cebba48cb7baba5db1/d51202cd4cd3192707cc71dafc59993e?ytl=http%3A%2F%2Fangel.co%2Fragnars), serial startup entrepreneur from Estonia, founder of Pipedrive - a simple CRM software (https://app.yesware.com/tl/61dabfe3c575d3b6105b0a4152ce14d697342a50/8a10a0f31658f2cebba48cb7baba5db1/8efbe85d6909d5ddf14e048c1e9086fb?ytl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pipedrive.com%2F) and startup bootcamp (https://app.yesware.com/tl/61dabfe3c575d3b6105b0a4152ce14d697342a50/8a10a0f31658f2cebba48cb7baba5db1/1a4092085fd6032fdf1b6b9b0dd5311c?ytl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.garage48.org%2F) Garage48.org
Skype was founded in 2003 by Janus Friisfrom Denmark,Niklas Zennström from Sweden and 4 Estonians: Ahti Heinla, Priit Kasesalu, Jaan Tallinn and Toivo Annus. Team worked together also with the peer-to-peer file sharing software Kazaa. Just 2 years later eBay bought Skype in for up to $4.1 billion dollars. On 10 May 2011, Microsoft asquired Skype for US$8.5 billion. Today Skype development centre is still in Estonia. Programm has over 200 million active users.
Ahti Heinla is Skype co-founder, former Skype lead architect, investor and nature protector. He picked up programming at the early age of ten, his fascination with all things technical resulting in him being the lead technical architect at Skype. He was an organizer of Let's Do It 2008 (https://app.yesware.com/tl/61dabfe3c575d3b6105b0a4152ce14d697342a50/ac89a8450436dd777f75c47affa4a8e1/82b7613bb28dc894fa7cfd16ea83e7b2?ytl=http%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FLet%2527s_Do_It_2008) that mobilised 3% of Estonian population in cleaning up the countryside of Estonia in one day.
http://angel.co/ahtih (https://app.yesware.com/tl/61dabfe3c575d3b6105b0a4152ce14d697342a50/8a10a0f31658f2cebba48cb7baba5db1/e1632f778165ce4542069c93f6bddc2a?ytl=http%3A%2F%2Fangel.co%2Fahtih)
https://twitter.com/ahtih (https://app.yesware.com/tl/61dabfe3c575d3b6105b0a4152ce14d697342a50/8a10a0f31658f2cebba48cb7baba5db1/13f4d09635ef59797c763880e499a167?ytl=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2Fahtih)
http://www.letsdoitworld.org (https://app.yesware.com/tl/61dabfe3c575d3b6105b0a4152ce14d697342a50/8a10a0f31658f2cebba48cb7baba5db1/7dbeaff7a55063ddedb4594d38f8579f?ytl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.letsdoitworld.org%2F)/

Jens Kasemets was working at Skype on their website, marketing and managing community. Dealing with one of the worlds most global and succesful products was a true challenge.
http://jens.kasemets.net/ (https://app.yesware.com/tl/61dabfe3c575d3b6105b0a4152ce14d697342a50/8a10a0f31658f2cebba48cb7baba5db1/cddb7294985758b667bdc13b05d33812?ytl=http%3A%2F%2Fjens.kasemets.net%2F)
http://twitter.com/kasemets (https://app.yesware.com/tl/61dabfe3c575d3b6105b0a4152ce14d697342a50/8a10a0f31658f2cebba48cb7baba5db1/f412346905f8b082e1d6766aeb330447?ytl=http%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2Fkasemets)

2. 20:00: Entrepreneurs from SUP speake and Show their DEMOS in the coolest Hardware Space of Santiago:

Ian and Kyran with StrongSteam (http://strongsteam.com/) with live demos of optical character recognition (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZW5hC4y9nuU) (OCR) and artwork recognition (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4d4f0MwyeA) mobile apps (angellist (http://angel.co/strongsteam)) Tim of BackYardBrains (http://www.backyardbrains.com/Home.aspx) – “Curious about how your brain works? With the help of our friends the humble Amazonian cockroach, we will teach you the electrical properties of neurons.” – will include demos and hardware you can buy (angellist (http://angel.co/backyard-brains)) Ashley of PaperHater (http://paperhater.com/) will give a live demo of their receipt/paper scanning and OCR application and talk about how they created a spinoff Fernando of SQMOS (http://www.sqmos.com/) will give a live demo of their augmented reality Android app (angellist (http://angel.co/sqmos-1)) For all of you who love beer we will have local chilean high quality beer for all!

Some news and pictures:
http://andesbeat.com/2012/03/19/made-in-chile-hip-maker-space-set-to-launch-in-santiago/
http://stgomakerspace.com/

The HackerSpace is a 15 minute walk south/east from the CMI office, just off of Bilbao. T

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