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Entrepreneurship In Times of Crisis
It’s hard enough to build a successful startup when times are good. But now? How will the Covid-19 pandemic impact entrepreneurs, investors and startup ecosystems around the world? What are the partnerships that matter, what should governments do to support young businesses? Steve Case, Chairman and CEO of Revolution, and DLD Co-Chairman Yossi Vardi took a close look at entrepreneurship in a time of crisis in this wide-ranging DLD Sync session that also touched upon issues of management, digital transformation, society and politics.
Steve Case
Revolution
AOL co-founder Steve Case is one of America’s best-known and most accomplished entrepreneurs and philanthropists, and a pioneer in making the Internet part of everyday life. Today, Case is Chairman and CEO of Revolution LLC, an investment firm focused on financing significant “built to last” businesses.
Yossi Vardi
DLD Conference
Dr. Joseph (Yossi) Vardi is a co-chairman of DLD. With 40 years experience in building over 60 high-tech companies, he is one of Israel’s early entrepreneurs. Yossi co-pioneered instant messaging as the founding investor and the former Chairman of Mirabilis Ltd., creator of ICQ, later acquired by AOL.
Steffi Czerny
DLD Conferences
Steffi Czerny is co-founder and co-CEO of the DLD Conference as well as its global spin-offs, establishing DLD as “one of Europe’s most important innovation conferences”, according to The Economist. An accomplished leader, Steffi Czerny has repeatedly been ranked amongst the 100 Most Influential Women in German Business by Manager Magazin as well as the daily business paper Handelsblatt.
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