Philly New Technology Meetup #37 - May 2017 - A Conversation with Howard Morgan

PNTM is having a conversation with First Round Capital cofounder, Howard Morgan.

6:00 Networking and food
6:20 Welcome and sponsors
6:30 Guest speaker: Howard Morgan
7:00 Q&A with Howard
7:20 Community discussion followed by Networking
7:30 Happy Hour

If you don't know of Howard, here's the opening of his Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_L._Morgan) entry:

"Howard Lee Morgan is an American venture capitalist, philanthropist, socialite, angel investor, author and contributing writer for Business Insider. He also serves as the Chairman, CEO, Director, Board member or advisor for an assortment of companies including Franklin Electronic Publishers, Arca Group, Idealab, Math for America and managing partner for First Round Capital with partners Josh Kopelman, Chris Fralic, and Rob Hayes."

In his own words (http://firstround.com/person/howard-morgan/#mystory), Howard says that he has

"had the chance to work with a lot of brilliant people — as Professor of Decision Sciences and Computer Science at Wharton and the University of Pennsylvania, at Cornell, Caltech and Harvard Business School, where I was on the faculty, at Renaissance Technologies, and through angel investing during the 1990s. Now, at First Round, I see and work with outstanding entrepreneurial talent all the time, with the great support of the First Round team to amplify and speed their success."

Howard retired from First Round Capital in late 2016. In the spirit of FRC, they roasted him with this video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-4xOKs_-rg).

Sponsored by Duane Morris (http://www.duanemorris.com/attorneys/richardlcohen.html), EisnerAmper (http://www.eisneramper.com/), Kopelman Foundation, and Ben Franklin Technology Partners (http://www.sep.benfranklin.org/).

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