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VLAB is kicking off its 2007 season by presenting some of Silicon Valley’s youngest and brightest entrepreneurs. Come join us for an evening where we put the spotlight on these young entrepreneurs to reveal the facts and dispel the myths behind the makings of hot startups and young moguls. Whether you’re interested in becoming the next baby billionaire or would like to hear some sage advice from this group of go-getters, this VLAB event promises to provide an evening of insightful and inventive dialogue.
Our moderator Ram Shriram will quiz the panelists about what it takes to not only create the right buzz for their products and companies, but also to secure the funding and build upon it. Garrett Camp of StumbleUpon, Angus Davis of Tellme, Omar Hamoui of AdMob, Seth Sternberg of Meebo, and Zaw Thet of 4INFO have had great success in starting and growing their online and mobile startups. They are also familiar faces of the Web 2.0 movement.
We look forward to your participation!
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Moderator:
Ram Shriram 
Founder
Sherpalo Ventures
Ram Shriram is a founding board member of Google Inc. and 247customer.com. As a technology industry insider for over 25 years, he has worked in companies large and small across all functional areas and through fluctuating business cycles. Shriram started Sherpalo in January, 2000, with the goal of applying his wealth of operating and company building experience to promising early stage ventures. In 2006, Shriram was named one of the top three dealmakers in high-tech by Forbes magazine.
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Garrett Camp
Founder
StumbleUpon
Garrett is an adaptive information systems researcher who completed his Masters degree in Software Engineering at the University of Calgary. He has researched evolutionary algorithms, knowledge retrieval and web usability while at UofC, and voice recognition as an intern at Nortel. At StumbleUpon, Garrett fulfills a key technical role: he is responsible for the high-level design of StumbleUpon’s client-server applications.
Angus Davis
Founder
Tellme
Angus co-founded Tellme with Mike McCue in February 1999. He works across the company to develop business and technology strategies to guide Tellme’s products and strategic direction. Prior, Angus facilitated Tellme’s entry into the travel and transportation markets, managed Tellme’s product line transition to serve Fortune 500 clients and led production of the 1-800-555-TELL consumer voice portal.
Angus joined Netscape Communications in 1996, bypassing college after an initial summer internship to become the company’s youngest fulltime employee. While at Netscape, Angus was a product manager for the Netscape Communicator Web browser. He was responsible for fostering developer relations, prototyping next generation browser technology, representing the company on standards committees, contributing to company strategy on legal matters and working on the AOL/Netscape merger.
His first telecommunications endeavor began mischievously at Phillips Academy Andover, where he hacked into a campus phone system so fellow students could make free long-distance calls. A native of Rhode Island, Angus lives in Providence.
Omar Hamoui
CEO
AdMob
Omar is an entrepreneur with deep roots in the mobile industry. After earning a degree in Computer Science at UCLA, Omar founded and ran several companies in mobile software and services. At the time, he was frustrated by the lack of available options when it came to promoting and monetizing mobile products. Omar realized that mobile service and content firms needed better ways to advertise and make money on the mobile Web. While earning his MBA at the Wharton School, Omar began to think more seriously about the untapped potential of mobile advertising, and created AdMob to address this growing opportunity. Today, Omar has taken a leave from Wharton to focus on AdMob, and is now running one of the fastest growing and most innovative companies in the mobile world.
Seth Sternberg
CEO
Meebo
Seth is responsible for all things business at meebo, which he co-founded with Elaine & Sandy. Prior to meebo, Seth worked at IBM in Corporate Development leading M&A transactions and working on strategy and venture capital initiatives. Seth flies airplanes, rides motorcycles, and rollerblades. Seth majored in Political Science at Yale, and withdrew from Stanford business school during his second year to concentrate on meebo.
Zaw Thet
CEO
4INFO
As the CEO and co-founder of 4INFO, Zaw Thet sets the company strategy, oversees product offerings, corporate alliances, business development and corporate communications. Prior to founding 4INFO, Zaw led business development at Spoke Software, a leading Silicon Valley CRM solution provider, and was the general manager of the company’s flagship Team Edition product. He has held positions within emerging technology management for IBM and was the CEO and co-founder of GetInventory, a web-based supply chain management company. Zaw has also held special consulting roles with numerous organizations including a past advisory role with the San Francisco 49ers.
Zaw is a member of the Silicon Valley 100 and is a frequent moderator and speaker at conferences including Silicon Forum, Dialog, Mobile Entertainment Summit, and the Kelsey Group. Zaw s entrepreneurial pursuits have been featured in many publications including: The New York Times, San Jose Business Journal, Chicago Tribune, and International Herald Tribune. He also writes a well-read blog on new technology at: http://www.zawthet.com
Zaw holds an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business, where he was a Soros Fellow and the youngest person to ever graduate from Stanford’s business school. He received his BA from Stanford University in Political Science with a minor in Computer Science, where he was a President’s Scholar.
