meet dave meet slideshare

meet Dave

A.K.A...

Facebook fanboy &startup mentor

Dave likes to hang out at...

the University Cafe

...and give startupsthe religion of metrics.

But he cannot meet everyone...

he has conferences to organize...

...and two doting kids 

he wants to spend time with

He createspresentations to get his ideas across

He used to email them around

After a conference, he would takebusiness cards & email them individually

One day, he read onTechCrunch about...

Michael Arrington called it theYouTube of PowerPoint

Dave tried it and was hooked!

He now uploads to SlideShare before giving a talk

When someone asks for slides, he says "go to my SlideShare page"

even better: people who missed the talkstill find his presentation!

His ideas are spreading,new people find his slides everyday on SlideShare.

Dave is a happy man!

He met Rashmi, the CEO of SlideShare who invited

him to become an advisor

Hal, Ross & Guy Joining other advisors...

Hal Varian Ross Mayfield Guy Kawasaki

Dave believed in the company and decided to invest

Soon others joined him in investing in SlideShare...

... Jonathan, Ariel, Yee, Saul, Mark

Jonathan Abrams

Ariel Poler

Yee Lee Saul Klein Mark Cuban

...including David & Dev from

David SiminoffDev Khare

These guys write bigger checksthan Dave.

…David Siminoff has joined SlideShare’s board

Now SlideShare has a new office inSan Francisco with orange walls

They‘re looking for Ruby hackers,Linux sys admins, and Community managers for one reason and one reason only...

...so that people like Dave can upload even more presentations to SlideShare!

Photography CreditsSlide 1: http://www.flickr.com/photos/bmindful/814619727/

Slide 3: http://www.flickr.com/photos/laughingsquid/101090223/

Slide 5: http://www.flickr.com/photos/stephanedelbecque/374013457/

Slide 8: http://www.flickr.com/photos/briansolis/1525665343/

Slide 9: http://www.flickr.com/photos/500hats/401205572/

Slide 10: http://www.flickr.com/photos/chrisheuer/1522349266/

Slide 15: http://www.flickr.com/photos/somewhatfrank/228420073

Slide 17: http://www.flickr.com/photos/500hats/46970614/

Slide 20: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jdlasica/2442189648/

Slide 22: http://www.flickr.com/photos/joi/2111841779http://www.guykawasaki.com/about/pictures.shtml

Slide 24: http://www.flickr.com/photos/niallkennedy/249112474/http://www.flickr.com/photos/joi/2191583197/http://www.flickr.com/photos/flawedartist/757959644/http://www.flickr.com/photos/eschipul/437288561/http://yeeguy.com/photos/

This presentation is inspired by Meet Henry,a presentation genre that was born (and spread) through SlideShare.

We would like to thank Scott Schwertly who created it, and all the SlideShare users who share their presentations on the site and inspire us everyday.-the SlideShare team