Location
United States
Areas of Expertise
Expert Bio David S. Rose is a New York Times bestselling author, serial entrepreneur, angel investor, and keynote speaker widely recognized as a leading figure in the startup and venture capital ecosystem. Described by Forbes as "New York's Archangel," by Crain's New York Business as "the father of angel investing in New York," and by Red Herring magazine as "patriarch of Silicon Alley," David has founded or funded over 100 pioneering companies across industries ranging from artificial intelligence and blockchain to real estate, wireless communications, and space tourism. He is the Founder and Executive Chairman of Gust, the world's largest online platform for entrepreneurs and early-stage investors, and currently serves as Chairman of AI platform Thinkable AI and hospitality blockchain platform BookitNGo. An Associate Founder of Singularity University and its Founding Track Chair for Finance, Entrepreneurship and Economics, David is also the author of the definitive startup guides "Angel Investing" and "The Startup Checklist." His celebrated TEDtalk "How to Pitch a VC" has surpassed one million views, and he has been recognized as Mentor of the Year by NYU's Stern School of Business. David lectures at Yale, Harvard, Columbia, and Cambridge, and has served as chairman of notable companies including JUMP Bikes (acquired by Uber), ComiXology (acquired by Amazon), Pond5 (backed by Accel), and Panjiva (acquired by S&P Global). He holds a BA in Urban Affairs from Yale University, an MBA in Finance from Columbia Business School, and an honorary Doctorate of Engineering from Stevens Institute of Technology.
Sessions Everything You Think You Know...Is Wrong
Exponential Thinking, Disruption, Future of Business, Innovation and Disruption, Digital Transformation, Economics
This session will completely reset the way participants view the world, upending their existing understanding in light of the exponential changes in technology that affect every aspect of life. In this 45–90-minute keynote session, the founding Track Chair of SU's Finance and Entrepreneurship program will walk participants through an eye-opening journey. It will explore why their intuitive perspective no longer works and how the latest developments and exponential technologies are completely redefining business in the 21st century. This mind-expanding keynote is a crash-course in the future, covering topics including the Long Tail, Web 3.0, Artificial Intelligence, and why hyper-accelerating technology is driving the cost of everything to free. Ideal as an eye-opening, stand-alone keynote for a broad-based audience, this session is also perfect as the foundational keynote for a longer program covering more specific areas of exponential development.
Exponential Entrepreneurship
Exponential Thinking, Exponential Organizations, Entrepreneurship, Startup Formation, Business Models, Strategy
This program for aspiring high-growth entrepreneurs delivers specific guidance on business creation in an era of exponential technological growth. It walks participants from an idea, through how to start a business designed to grow rapidly, all the way through getting funded by investors, and eventually exiting to a larger company or through an IPO. Lead by the founding Chair of Singularity University's Entrepreneurship program famous for his dictum that "any company designed for success in the 20th is doomed to failure in the 21st", it can be delivered as a 45-minute keynote, a 90-minute workshop, or a half-day program. Participants will leave with a solid understanding of how a "high-growth startup" is very different from a "small business", as well as the specific, actionable steps needed to plan, incorporate and finance a startup.
This session is based on the New York Times best-selling book "The Startup Checklist: 25 Steps to a Scalable, High-Growth Business", and can include a book signing and extensive Question & Answer session with the audience.
Exponential Angel Investing
Exponential Thinking, Fintech, Startup Formation, Innovation, Economics, Economic Climate
In this presentation designed for high-net-worth audiences, participants will learn how individual angel investors can see annualized returns of 20%, 30%, even 40%, on their early investments into new, high-tech companies. David S. Rose, one of America's leading early stage angel investors and the founder of Gust, the industry's official platform connecting investors with startups, will reveal the secrets behind getting in on the ground floor in the next Big Thing. He will share stories of triumphs and disasters from the more than 100 high-tech startups in which he has personally invested, including companies that were purchased by Uber, Amazon, Facebook, Google, and Intel, for hundreds of millions of dollars. This program, ideal for affluent audiences, is based on David's New York Times best-selling book "Angel Investing: The Gust Guide to Making Money and Having Fun Investing in Startups", can be delivered as a keynote or workshop, in which David will guide participants through the world of professional angel investing, and introduce them to all the tools and sources they will need to select and make their initial investments.
No More Companies, No More Jobs: On the Way To A World Without Work
Optimistic futurists such as Ray Kurzweil claim that new technologies will create new jobs in an ever-growing virtuous circle. Pessimists such as the late Kurt Vonnegut project a dystopian future of pandemic unemployment. In this thought-provoking 45 minute presentation, David S. Rose will present a third vision, developed during his work as Track Chair for Finance, Entrepreneurship, and Economics at Singularity University: that technological development is moving us to a 'post sufficiency' economy, with neither 'jobs' nor a need for them. He will lead an entertaining, eye-opening and thought-provoking discussion tracing the growth of companies, and projecting their future disappearance. It is ideal for participants as diverse as entrepreneurs, investors, corporate executives and academics, all of whom will come away with a completely new perspective on the future of business, and what their role in it may be.
The Essence of Entrepreneurship
Exponential Thinking, Exponential Organizations, Entrepreneurship, Startup Formation, Purpose, Human Potential
Starting a new venture is simultaneously the most exhilarating and terrifying occupation on earth, and entrepreneurs are the passionate, driven, engines of the world's economic development. In this inspirational, educational, 45-minute keynote, investor and serial entrepreneur David S. Rose, founder of Singularity University's Entrepreneurship program, will share with participants stories from the more than 100 companies he has founded or funded. He will discuss the reality of entrepreneurial life choices and provide invaluable guidance to those considering starting a new venture on their own. This presentation is ideal for current or prospective entrepreneurs in business schools, entrepreneurship programs, and business leadership events. It can also be delivered in the form of a special, off-the-record, highly personal, 90 minute interactive session, typically as an optional evening event following a more formal day program.
Venture Capital Pitch Bootcamp
Exponential Organizations, Fintech, Entrepreneurship, Startup Formation, Prototyping, Business Models
In this 90-minute workshop, participants will learn what it takes to get venture capitalists and angel investors to open up their checkbooks to fund a new venture. As the Founder of New York Angels, David S. Rose hears more than 500 pitches a year, and routinely sees otherwise great companies turned away because their fundraising pitches completely missed their target. This special coaching session for high-growth entrepreneurs will walk participants through exactly how to prepare and deliver a presentation that will give their companies the best chance of being funded. It will go through the top ten rules for fundraising pitches; demonstrate what investors are really hearing...despite what you're saying and show how to structure a presentation to walk out with a check. David S. Rose, described by BusinessWeek as "The Pitch Coach" and by Forbes as "New York's Archangel", will dive into specific techniques for using PowerPoint to design killer presentations, and explain why words like "traction" mean different things to founders and investors. David S. Rose's classic TED talk on "How to Pitch a VC" has been viewed nearly two million times and is mandatory viewing in business schools around the world. As an optional addition, David can do a live 'make-over' of a pre-submitted presentation from the audience, demonstrating the amazing difference his presentation techniques can make.
