Anderson SmithSoc Speaker Series welcomes Paul Martino
Today's image of the entrepreneur is largely a few friends in Silicon Valley developing an iPhone App. This is not the image of 10 years ago and will likely be very different 10 years from today. How will entrepreneurship change and what must MBAs do to be prepared for it?
Paul Martino, founder of Bullpen Capital, will join us on campus October 18 to discuss the future of technology entrepreneurship. Drawing from his experiences in venture capital, including early investments in FanDuel and Zynga, Paul has unique insight into the world of tech, entrepreneurship, and finance.
Paul is the founder of four companies including Ahpah Software (a computer security firm acquired by InterTrust); Tribe (one of the world’s first social networks), and Aggregate Knowledge (a big data advertising attribution company acquired in 2014 by Neustar). Paul’s early online gaming innovations in multi-player user experience from almost 20 years ago are the inspiration for several of the modern social gaming offerings. He is the holder of over a dozen core patents covering social networking and big data.
Prior to forming Bullpen, he was an active angel investor and personally invested in the first rounds of Zynga, TubeMogul, and uDemy. Paul founded Bullpen in 2010 and has led several of its key investments including FanDuel, Namely, Ipsy, SpotHero, Classy, and Airmap. Paul holds a BS in Mathematics from Lehigh University and a Masters in Computer Science from Princeton University.
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