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Join us for an evening with two of Berkeley's prolific entrepreneurs building the future in New York. Hear from Thiel Fellow Ritik Malhotra, a 3x time founder whose previous companies were acquired by Brex and Box, and Alice Ma, the serial founder of Mad Realities, ConstitutionDAO, and more.

Light food and refreshments will be served.


when

Tuesday
November 15, 2022
6:30 pm

LoCATION

Betaworks, 29 Little W 12th St, New York, NY 10014

agenda

Speakers

Ritik Malhotra

CEO and Co-Founder
Savvy Wealth
Biography

Ritik is the CEO and Co-Founder of Savvy Wealth, modern wealth management for modern professionals. Savvy Wealth is backed by The House Fund, Index Ventures, and Thrive Capital. Ritik is a serial entrepreneur, Thiel Fellow, YC alum, and of course Berkeley alum.

Alice Ma

Co-Founder
Mad Realities
Biography

Alice is the Co-Founder of Mad Realities, a new age audience-owned entertainment platform of the future. Mad Realities is backed by Paradigm, Maveron, and Paris Hilton's 11:11 Media. Alice was also a Co-Founder and core team member of ConstitutionDAO, which raised $52M to bid as a DAO at Sotheby's to make the last original copy of the Constitution in private hands available to the public.

Akash Malhotra

Partner
The House Fund
Biography

Akash is a Partner at The House Fund. As a student at UC Berkeley, Akash co-founded a marketing technology company, Eventable, which moved to New York shortly after inception. He helped grow the business to profitability and ultimately an acquisition. Akash was recognized on the Forbes 30 Under 30 2020 list and has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, TechCrunch, and CNBC.

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Join us for an evening with two of Berkeley's prolific entrepreneurs building the future in New York. Hear from Thiel Fellow Ritik Malhotra, a 3x time founder whose previous companies were acquired by Brex and Box, and Alice Ma, the serial founder of Mad Realities, ConstitutionDAO, and more.

Light food and refreshments will be served.


When

November 15, 2022
6:30 pm

Where

Betaworks, 29 Little W 12th St, New York, NY 10014
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Agenda

Speakers

Ritik Malhotra

CEO and Co-Founder
Savvy Wealth
Biography

Ritik is the CEO and Co-Founder of Savvy Wealth, modern wealth management for modern professionals. Savvy Wealth is backed by The House Fund, Index Ventures, and Thrive Capital. Ritik is a serial entrepreneur, Thiel Fellow, YC alum, and of course Berkeley alum.

Alice Ma

Co-Founder
Mad Realities
Biography

Alice is the Co-Founder of Mad Realities, a new age audience-owned entertainment platform of the future. Mad Realities is backed by Paradigm, Maveron, and Paris Hilton's 11:11 Media. Alice was also a Co-Founder and core team member of ConstitutionDAO, which raised $52M to bid as a DAO at Sotheby's to make the last original copy of the Constitution in private hands available to the public.

Akash Malhotra

Partner
The House Fund
Biography

Akash is a Partner at The House Fund. As a student at UC Berkeley, Akash co-founded a marketing technology company, Eventable, which moved to New York shortly after inception. He helped grow the business to profitability and ultimately an acquisition. Akash was recognized on the Forbes 30 Under 30 2020 list and has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, TechCrunch, and CNBC.

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Public Event

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A Conversation with Berkeley Founders presented by The House Fund and Betaworks

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Join us for an evening with two of Berkeley's prolific entrepreneurs building the future in New York. Hear from Thiel Fellow Ritik Malhotra, a 3x time founder whose previous companies were acquired by Brex and Box, and Alice Ma, the serial founder of Mad Realities, ConstitutionDAO, and more.

Light food and refreshments will be served.


when

Tuesday
November 15, 2022
6:30 pm

LoCATION

Betaworks, 29 Little W 12th St, New York, NY 10014

agenda

Speakers

Ritik Malhotra

CEO and Co-Founder
Savvy Wealth
Biography

Ritik is the CEO and Co-Founder of Savvy Wealth, modern wealth management for modern professionals. Savvy Wealth is backed by The House Fund, Index Ventures, and Thrive Capital. Ritik is a serial entrepreneur, Thiel Fellow, YC alum, and of course Berkeley alum.

Alice Ma

Co-Founder
Mad Realities
Biography

Alice is the Co-Founder of Mad Realities, a new age audience-owned entertainment platform of the future. Mad Realities is backed by Paradigm, Maveron, and Paris Hilton's 11:11 Media. Alice was also a Co-Founder and core team member of ConstitutionDAO, which raised $52M to bid as a DAO at Sotheby's to make the last original copy of the Constitution in private hands available to the public.

Akash Malhotra

Partner
The House Fund
Biography

Akash is a Partner at The House Fund. As a student at UC Berkeley, Akash co-founded a marketing technology company, Eventable, which moved to New York shortly after inception. He helped grow the business to profitability and ultimately an acquisition. Akash was recognized on the Forbes 30 Under 30 2020 list and has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, TechCrunch, and CNBC.

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A Conversation with Berkeley Founders presented by The House Fund and Betaworks

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Join us for an evening with two of Berkeley's prolific entrepreneurs building the future in New York. Hear from Thiel Fellow Ritik Malhotra, a 3x time founder whose previous companies were acquired by Brex and Box, and Alice Ma, the serial founder of Mad Realities, ConstitutionDAO, and more.

Light food and refreshments will be served.


speakers

Ritik Malhotra

CEO and Co-Founder
Savvy Wealth
Biography

Ritik is the CEO and Co-Founder of Savvy Wealth, modern wealth management for modern professionals. Savvy Wealth is backed by The House Fund, Index Ventures, and Thrive Capital. Ritik is a serial entrepreneur, Thiel Fellow, YC alum, and of course Berkeley alum.

Alice Ma

Co-Founder
Mad Realities
Biography

Alice is the Co-Founder of Mad Realities, a new age audience-owned entertainment platform of the future. Mad Realities is backed by Paradigm, Maveron, and Paris Hilton's 11:11 Media. Alice was also a Co-Founder and core team member of ConstitutionDAO, which raised $52M to bid as a DAO at Sotheby's to make the last original copy of the Constitution in private hands available to the public.

Akash Malhotra

Partner
The House Fund
Biography

Akash is a Partner at The House Fund. As a student at UC Berkeley, Akash co-founded a marketing technology company, Eventable, which moved to New York shortly after inception. He helped grow the business to profitability and ultimately an acquisition. Akash was recognized on the Forbes 30 Under 30 2020 list and has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, TechCrunch, and CNBC.

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WHEN

Tuesday, November 15, 2022
6:30 pm

WHERE

Betaworks
29 Little West 12th Street
New York, NY 10014

Agenda

Tools
For
Thinking

How New Technologies are Changing How We Create, Share, and Build Knowledge

When

November 15, 2022
6:30 pm

Where

Betaworks, 29 Little W 12th St, New York, NY 10014
or livestream
Proof of Full Vaccination Required

RENDER is Over, but Camp is just beginning

We had some great speakers and participants turn out for Render, and we all got to participate in very interesting conversations. You can find recordings of all of our sessions below. If you're working on a Tool for Thinking and want to participate in our upcoming accelerator program, you can learn more here.

Building Bicycles for the Mind

Join us for an evening with two of Berkeley's prolific entrepreneurs building the future in New York. Hear from Thiel Fellow Ritik Malhotra, a 3x time founder whose previous companies were acquired by Brex and Box, and Alice Ma, the serial founder of Mad Realities, ConstitutionDAO, and more.

Light food and refreshments will be served.


Speakers

Howard

Rheingold

Author
Tools for Thought
@hrheingold

Ritik

Malhotra

CEO and Co-Founder
Savvy Wealth
@RitikM

Alice

Ma

Co-Founder
Mad Realities
@alicemama15

Akash

Malhotra

Partner
The House Fund
@AkashMalhotra

Schedule

11:30 AM
Doors Open
12:00 PM
Welcome
with MC
12:10 PM – 12:20 PM
How Do We Define Tools for Thinking and Why Do They Matter?
Join Jerry Michalski and John Borthwick as they talk about their interest in tools for thinking, and what excites them the most about the future of the category.
12:20 PM – 12:50 PM
Inflection Points for Tools for Thinking
What are the key inflection points that will supercharge Tools for Thinking in the near future? How will new technologies, user metaphors, and funding models change how people build these tools? John Borthwick will be discussing how the landscape is changing with the co-founders of Readwise, Daniel Doyon & Tristan Homsi.
12:50 PM – 1:00 PM
Q+A
1:00 PM – 1:15 PM
Demo: Protocol Design for Tools for Thinking
Gordon Brander will be presenting a brief demo on Subconscious and the Noosphere, products he and his team are working on to allow Tools for Thinking to become interoperable and better connected.
1:15 PM – 2:00 PM
Lunch and Networking
2:00 PM – 2:45 PM
The History and Future of Software as Tools for Thinking
Some of the earliest examples of software explored by pioneers like Doug Engelbart, JCR Licklider, Alan Turing, and others were at their core technologies that help magnify, inspect, and spread our ideas. Jerry Michalski will be sitting down (virtually) with Howard Rheingold, author of Tools for Thought, to explore the history and future of "mind-amplifying technology".
2:45 PM – 3:00 PM
Q+A
3:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Tools for Thinking Product Demos
We’ll hear from builders and thinkers deep in the space and get to take a look at what they’re working on. We’ll be checking out Plexus, Re:Collect, Jerry’s Brain, Subconscious and more. 
4:15 PM – 4:45 PM
Leveraging AI and ML in Building New Tools for Thinking
Alice Albrecht and Linus Lee will be sitting down with Chris Pedregal to discuss their work in leveraging AI and Machine Learning for creating new kinds of tools for thinking.
4:45 PM – 5:00 PM
Q+A
5:00 PM – 5:30 PM
Idea Dimensionality and Representing Semantic Meaning
How do ideas - and the human brains that make and hold them - interact?  Get prepared for meta! Esther Dyson and Jerry Michalski, will discuss the idea of how people work together to shape, compare, intertwine and ultimately produce multi-faceted ideas and multi-dimensional idea spaces.  As David Waltz (Thinking Machines) once said, “Words are not in themselves carriers of meaning, but merely pointers to shared understanding.” Watch and lob questions as the two of them try to build and share the idea of how better ideas can be developed through collaboration.
5:30 PM – 5:45 PM
Q+A
5:45 PM – 7:00 PM
Closing and Happy Hour

Proof of Full Vaccination Required

Betaworks requires all visitors to show proof of full vaccination to enter. No exceptions. Two ways that you can show proof:
  • Official vaccine card with at least 2 weeks having passed since the date of the last required dose (1 dose for J&J/AstraZeneca, 2 for Pfizer/Moderna)
  • An active digital pass such as the NY State Excelsior Pass or the CLEAR app
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