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Don’t miss these deals before the event starts on November 4. Explore the full Founder Summit agenda to discover the breakout and roundtable sessions and speakers bringing actionable insights, hard-earned lessons, and practical advice to help you scale your startup. Few stories capture the potential of the Boston startup ecosystem better than Toast.
Steve Fredette, president, co-founder, and director of Toast, will talk about what it takes to keep reinventing a company even after the original idea works. Scaling creates a new set of questions: How do you keep innovating? How do you stay close to the customers who got you there?
And how do you evolve as technology and expectations change around you? For founders trying to move from early traction toward meaningful scale, those are the questions that matter. Premature growth can be expensive.
Kent Bennett, Partner at Bessemer Venture Partners, will explore how founders can recognize meaningful product-market fit before they scale. Rudina Seseri, Founder and Managing Partner of Glasswing Ventures, will take that conversation further by tackling when founders should accelerate and when hitting the brakes may be the smarter decision. Together, those sessions give founders perspectives from both sides of the growth equation.
The agenda goes well beyond fundraising. Vineet Edupuganti of Cogent Security will explore how founders can build exceptional teams. Dave Balter of True Ventures and Edisyl will focus on the pitch and why a founder’s goal isn’t to explain everything in one meeting.
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