Adora Cheung - Fireside Chat

ABOUT SPEAKER

She previously served as the CEO and Co-Founder of Homejoy Inc. and was on the Board of the Homejoy Foundation. Prior to Homejoy, Adora worked at Slide (acquired by Google) as a lead Product Manager where she had the opportunity to learn about startups.
When Adora left Slide to start her own company she joined forces with her brother Aaron Cheung to form Pathjoy, a startup connecting life coaches to clients online. With Pathjoy the duo were accepted to the Y-Combinator. After two years the duo founded Homejoy in July 2012 and since then Adora has successfully grown the Homejoy team from just her and her brother, to a team of over 120 employees and platform that serve hundreds of thousands of households in over 30 cities across the US, Canada, UK, and Germany.

İhsan Elgin
Founder at Core Strateji,
Co-Founder at Startups Watch,
Entrepreneur In Residence at Ozyegin University

İhsan Elgin is currently Founder of Core Strateji; a strategy firm that specializes in entrepreneurial transformation at leading companies and lean startup coach. "Entrepreneur in Residence” at Özyeğin University. He is also Co-founder of Startups.Watch (Turkey’s first and only early stage market analysis platform) & FinTech İstanbul (leading organization in the financial technology sector). Prior to these jobs he started Climateminder as the Co-Founder after 8 years of corporate life. Upon sold their business in the USA. He founded Fit Start-up Factory (Özyeğin University’s Accelerator Program for techno start-ups). Elgin also teaches courses on “Business Model Innovation”, “Corporate Start-up Engagement” and “Lean Start-up Management”. Furthermore, Elgin has several angel investments in FinTech and RetailTech sectors.

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