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Alex Theuma is the Founder & CEO of SaaStock, an events and media company focused on supporting B2B SaaS founders to gain traction, grow and scale their businesses. In 2015, Alex began SaaScribe, a blog focused on all things SaaS, which quickly developed into a podcast, The SaaS Revolution Show, and eventually launched SaaStock, the world's only SaaS festival. Today SaaStock comprises two world-famous SaaS festivals, Dublin & Austin, local meetups across the globe, an exclusive founders-only membership program, educational content, and more.

In 2015, Carolyn Lowe founded Austin-based ROI Swift, which helps market emerging consumer brands.

Her team grew an apparel and footwear company from $0 to  $12 million in sales in 18 months. Carolyn’s goal is to help 1000 brands grow profitably. So far, ROI Swift has helped nearly 200 including Tiff's Treats, Tecovas, Austin Eastciders, and Esker Beauty. 

In September, Carolyn wrote  a book “Business Growth Dos and Absolute Don’ts Applied Wisdom from My Work with Dell, Costco, Amazon, and Multiple startups.” In 2015, Carolyn Lowe founded Austin-based ROI Swift, which helps market emerging consumer brands.

Daniel Barel is the Co-Founder and CEO of REE Automotive, leading all product strategy, technology innovation, and business operations. A disruptive thinker who builds and leads game-changing companies, Daniel is shaping the way the world moves people and cargo with never-before-seen advances in EV technology. REE Automotive is establishing a manufacturing site in Austin. 

Henry Yoshida is the CEO and Co-Founder of Rocket Dollar, the fastest-growing self-directed

IRA platform. Henry Yoshida is a Certified Financial Planner™ and second-time founder.

In the past, Henry was the founder of venture capital-backed Robo-advisor Honest Dollar,

acquired by Goldman Sachs, was the founder of MY Group LLC, a $2.6 billion assets under management retirement plan advisory firm, and spent 10 years at Merrill Lynch.

Being able to ask a VC is always a great conversation. Amos does not disappoint at all in this session. He shares a ton of great ideas and guidance in an open discussion.

What it means to have a data and metrics-driven plan
Are you on the part to product/market direction and product/market fit
What you need to know to claim you have product/market fit
What I fell in love with within my first sales job
The excitement, the expectations, and the reality of an acquisition
The 1999 Sales Process
How do you know what to do and when in your early-stage start-up
The disparity of equity and success
Biggest mistakes founders make when approaching a VC
The difference between of an accelerator and other VCs

Steve Cody is the co-founder of Ruckify, which it bills as the world’s largest peer to peer rental platform. He is a serial entrepreneur who has built and sold six different rental companies and a software company. And in March, at the beginning of the COVID-19 Pandemic, Ruckify moved its headquarters to Austin, Texas.