Join us for another Collision of Ideas at the Geekdom Event center. Sean Wen of Pinch Boil House is joined by Bethany Stachenfeld and Brandon Escalante, the Co-Founders of Sendspark. This company allows you to cut through the noise and speak directly to your buyer over email, text message, LinkedIn, or anywhere. Capture your message whether it's a sales pitch, product announcement, or warm welcome. Listen in on the last Geekdom Fireside chat of the season. https://sendspark.com/ https://geekdom.com/

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October 2019 / Sendspark Co-Founders Bethany Stachenfeld and Brandon Escalante

David Jones sits down with CEO and Founder Joshua Sanchez of Float Me. Joshua tells us about the inception of Float Me, how it works and where things are heading for this exciting new company. https://www.floatme.io/ https://geekdom.com/

February 2020 / Joshua Sanchez of Float Me

Join us for another Collision of Ideas at the Geekdom Event center. Iris Gonzalez is joined by the Founder and CEO of Dearduck in San Antonio, TX. Katy Aucoin has created a software that businesses can use to help their customers make informed purchases. She calls this customized marketing approach BFO or buying for others. Listen in on her journey from Houston to San Antonio, help from startup accelerators like RealCo and Techstars and her big pivot. https://www.dearduck.com/ https://geekdom.com/

September 2019 / Dearduck Founder and CEO Katy Aucoin

Join us for another Collision of Ideas at the Geekdom Event center. Iris Gonzalez is joined by the Co-founder and Director of Business Development for Active Capital in San Antonio, TX. Active Capital is a venture firm focused on leading seed rounds for B2B SaaS companies. They are based in Texas but will invest in founders across the US. They prefer companies that can get to market with very little capital and believe they can best help founders once they start to grow. https://www.activecapital.com/ https://geekdom.com/

August 2019 / Active Capital with Cat Dizon and Chris Saum

Join us for another Collision of Ideas at the Geekdom Event center. Michael Henderson is joined by the founders of Cityflag in San Antonio, TX. Cityflag is building People-centric smart city technology for local and national governments. https://cityflag.co/ https://geekdom.com/

July 2019 / Cityflag with Alberto Altamirano, Alberto Gomez and Eduardo Bravo

Join us for another Collision of Ideas at the Geekdom Event center. Romanita Matta-Barrera welcomes Bret Piatt, CEO of Jungle Disk for a chat by the fire. Listen in on his journey from phone company to Rackspace to buying Jungle Disk and starting out in the basement at Geekdom. Bret is working on building a cluster of tech in downtown San Antonio and retaining our most talented workers and recruiting new ones to come here. https://www.jungledisk.com/ https://geekdom.com/

June 2019 / Bret Piatt, CEO of Jungle Disk

Join us for another Collision of Ideas at the Geekdom Event center. Cole Wollak welcomes Sridhar and Suja Kamma, founder and co-founder of Funnel AI for a chat by the fire. Listen in on their journey from a startup in Austin to changing directions and coming down to San Antonio to work on Machine learning and AI that assists with sales and marketing for Auto dealerships and more. https://funnelai.com/ https://geekdom.com/

May 2019 / Sridhar and Suja Kamma of Funnel AI

Join us for another Collision of Ideas at the Geekdom Event center. Tom Cuthbert welcome Sara Helmy, CEO of Tribu for a chat by the fire. Listen in on her journey from selling t-shirts for a economics project to then changing her major, leaving her first marketing job after 6 months and starting her own company in her mom's extra office space. https://wearetribu.com/ https://geekdom.com/

April 2019 / Sara Helmy of Tribu with Tom Cuthbert

Dax Moreno moderates a chat with David Heard, Lew Moorman and Lorenzo Gomez, founders of Tech Bloc San Antonio for the February episode of the Geekdom Fireside Chat. The founders tell the origin story of Tech Bloc and talk about the political landscape of San Antonio back in 2014, the resurrection of Uber and how their collision of ideas helped create Tech Bloc San Antonio. https://www.satechbloc.com/ https://geekdom.com/

February 2019 / Tech Bloc - David Heard, Lew Moorman and Lorenzo Gomez, hosted by Dax Moreno

Charles Woodin moderates a chat with Robert Miggins and Jason Pittman of Go Smart Solar for the January episode of the Geekdom Fireside Chat. Jason and Robert share their individual career paths and how their collision of ideas help form and grow Go Smart Solar. https://gosmartsolar.com/ https://geekdom.com/

January 2019 / Go Smart Solar - Robert Miggins and Jason Pittman, hosted by Charles Woodin

Join us as the Collision of Ideas continues with Brokerage Engine co-founders, Brianne Alston and Dirk Elmendorf. Larry "SugarBear" Reyes, VP of Customer Experience, will moderate.

November 2018 / Co-Founders of Brokerage Engine - Brianne Alston and Dirk Elmendorf hosted by Larry 'Sugar Bear' Reyes

The second chat in this series will feature the co-founders of Codeup - Michael Girdley, Jason Straughan and Chris Turner as they share their personal journeys and how the crossing of paths led to their groundbreaking idea. Host - Nick Longo Michael Girdley Managing Director, Geekdom Fund Michael Girdley is an entrepreneur and investor. He is managing director of the Geekdom Fund, an early stage venture capital firm focusing on tech. Michael also sits on the boards of multiple companies including Codeup, the RealCo Seed Fund Program, Grok and Alamo Fireworks. Jason Straughan CEO, Codeup Jason Straughan is the CEO of Codeup, a career accelerator that uses an immersive approach to training software development to students with little to no prior programming experience. Chris Turner CEO, Turner Logic Chris Turner is an engineer, inventor, and entrepreneur. After a 12 year career with Lockheed Martin he founded Turner Logic, a San Antonio based software company. Chris is also a co-founder of Codeup and a member of the board for Youth Code Jam. Recorded Thursday October 25, 2018 at the Geekdom Event Centre in downtown San Antonio, Texas.

October 2018 / Co-Founders of CodeUp - Michael Girdley, Jason Straughan and Chris Turner hosted by Nick Longo

Lorenzo Gomez III moderates a chat with the co-founders of Geekdom, Nick Longo and Graham Weston for the first Geekdom Fireside Chat. Graham and Nick share how they meet through Rackspace and how they got started in their perspective industries. They also field questions from the audience as well as an interruption for the world famous branding expert Bill Schley. Checkout https://geekdom.com/ for more information about the Geekdom Fireside Chat series, other Geekdom events and membership opportunities. Look for Geekdom on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter.

September 2018 / Geekdom Co-Founders - Graham Weston & Nick Longo hosted by Lorenzo Gomez III

Geekdom is a collaborative coworking space in San Antonio, Texas, and the heartbeat of the startup ecosystem. Sit in on a meeting of the minds every month at the Geekdom Event Center for The Fireside Chat series, gain unique insights from top industry leaders, entrepreneurs, investors and influencers in business and tech.

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October 2019 / Sendspark Co-Founders Bethany Stachenfeld and...

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