Geekdom Fireside Chat

Lorenzo Gomez III moderates a chat with the co-founders of Geekdom, Nick Longo and Graham Weston for the first Geekdom Fireside Chat. Graham and Nick share how they meet through Rackspace and how they got started in their perspective industries. They also field questions from the audience as well as an interruption for the world famous branding expert Bill Schley. Checkout https://geekdom.com/ for more information about the Geekdom Fireside Chat series, other Geekdom events and membership opportunities. Look for Geekdom on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter.

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The second chat in this series will feature the co-founders of Codeup – Michael Girdley, Jason Straughan and Chris Turner as they share their personal journeys and how the crossing of paths led to their groundbreaking idea.

Host – Nick Longo

Michael Girdley
Managing Director, Geekdom Fund
Michael Girdley is an entrepreneur and investor. He is managing director of the Geekdom Fund, an early stage venture capital firm focusing on tech. Michael also sits on the boards of multiple companies including Codeup, the RealCo Seed Fund Program, Grok and Alamo Fireworks.

Jason Straughan
CEO, Codeup
Jason Straughan is the CEO of Codeup, a career accelerator that uses an immersive approach to training software development to students with little to no prior programming experience.

Chris Turner
CEO, Turner Logic
Chris Turner is an engineer, inventor, and entrepreneur. After a 12 year career with Lockheed Martin he founded Turner Logic, a San Antonio based software company. Chris is also a co-founder of Codeup and a member of the board for Youth Code Jam.

Recorded Thursday October 25, 2018 at the Geekdom Event Centre in downtown San Antonio, Texas.

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Charles Woodin moderates a chat with Robert Miggins and Jason Pittman of Go Smart Solar for the January episode of the Geekdom Fireside Chat. Jason and Robert share their individual career paths and how their collision of ideas help form and grow Go Smart Solar.

https://gosmartsolar.com/

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Dax Moreno moderates a chat with David Heard, Lew Moorman and Lorenzo Gomez, founders of Tech Bloc San Antonio for the February episode of the Geekdom Fireside Chat. The founders tell the origin story of Tech Bloc and talk about the political landscape of San Antonio back in 2014, the resurrection of Uber and how their collision of ideas helped create Tech Bloc San Antonio.

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Join us for another Collision of Ideas at the Geekdom Event center. Tom Cuthbert welcome Sara Helmy, CEO of Tribu for a chat by the fire. Listen in on her journey from selling t-shirts for a economics project to then changing her major, leaving her first marketing job after 6 months and starting her own company in her mom’s extra office space.

https://wearetribu.com/

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Join us for another Collision of Ideas at the Geekdom Event center. Cole Wollak welcomes Sridhar and Suja Kamma, founder and co-founder of Funnel AI for a chat by the fire. Listen in on their journey from a startup in Austin to changing directions and coming down to San Antonio to work on Machine learning and AI that assists with sales and marketing for Auto dealerships and more.

https://funnelai.com/

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Join us for another Collision of Ideas at the Geekdom Event center. Romanita Matta-Barrera welcomes Bret Piatt, CEO of Jungle Disk for a chat by the fire. Listen in on his journey from phone company to Rackspace to buying Jungle Disk and starting out in the basement at Geekdom. Bret is working on building a cluster of tech in downtown San Antonio and retaining our most talented workers and recruiting new ones to come here.

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Join us for another Collision of Ideas at the Geekdom Event center. Michael Henderson is joined by the founders of Cityflag in San Antonio, TX. Cityflag is building People-centric smart city technology for local and national governments.

https://cityflag.co/

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Join us for another Collision of Ideas at the Geekdom Event center. Iris Gonzalez is joined by the Co-founder and Director of Business Development for Active Capital in San Antonio, TX. Active Capital is a venture firm focused on leading seed rounds for B2B SaaS companies. They are based in Texas but will invest in founders across the US. They prefer companies that can get to market with very little capital and believe they can best help founders once they start to grow.

https://www.activecapital.com/

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