FC BUILD_Enterprise 2020
December 9 - 10, 2020
FC BUILD_Enterprise 2020 was a virtual conference for B2B technology entrepreneurs and executives who are building the automated enterprise. Foundation Capital brought together an amazing roster of over 50 speakers for two days of CEO keynotes, in-depth conversations with industry leaders, and executive-training workshops directly to you. Think of FC BUILD as a summit for CEOs, a forum for founders, and a symposium for startups all rolled into one live-streamed event.
Featured Talks
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The Future of IT + Security
A conversation about how the IT + security landscape is evolving.
Doug Merritt
Mike DeCesare
How to B2B a CEO
An academic turned entrepreneur walks us through his journey from engineer to CEO.
Ali Ghodsi
How to Close a Fortune 500 Customer
Three CISOs let the audience in on the best strategies for closing security customers.
Jamil Farshchi
Shamla Naidoo
Friedrich Wetschnig
How to Manage Through Uncertain Times
How to Manage Through Uncertain Times
Olivia Nottebohm
Daisy Hernandez
How to Win in Robotics
The founders of the most successful enterprise robotics company and the most successful consumer robotics company of the past decade, respectively.
Helen Greiner
Raffaello D'Andrea
From Startup Founder to Enterprise Leader
Two founder-CEOs share their stories and take questions from founders in the audience.
Edith Harbaugh
Tien Tzuo
A Walk Through the Cloud
An overview of what's in store for the Google Cloud in 2021.
Alison Wagonfeld
Thriving Amidst the Chaos
Dan Springer (CEO of DocuSign) and Janine Pelosi (CMO of Zoom) discuss managing the happy chaos of rapidly growing companies.
Janine Pelosi
Dan Springer
E-Commerce 360
E-Commerce is having a real moment! We'll hear from both the platform and merchant sides of the aisle.
Lee Mayer
Jonathan Smalley
Unpacking Open Source
Perspectives on best-in-class approaches and frameworks for open-source companies.
Abby Kearns
Jason Warner
Justin Borgman
Re:Invent in an Hour
For those who want the short version, here are the highlights from AWS re:Invent 2020.
Mackenzie Kosut
Power to the People
The stories of two founder-CEOs who took diverging paths but shared a common mission to remake hiring and recruiting.
Amy Chang
Ashutosh Garg
Ascending to the Cloud
Hear how cloud migration has changed the game for these two enterprise executives.
Chris Young
Sri Shivananda
From Idea to IPO with George Kurtz
From standing up a startup business to running a public-company powerhouse.
Michelle Zatlyn
George Kurtz
Diversity is Disruptive
The moral and business imperative to building more inclusive companies.
Sukhinder Singh Cassidy
Ralph Clark
Enterprise Buying During Covid
Sourcing and buying enterprise products during the pandemic.
Shweta Singh Maniar
Vishy Gopalakrishnan
GTM on the Cheap
This is what a go-to-market roadmap looks like when there isn't yet a road.
Ariana Thacker
Shruti Gandhi
Pete Soderling
Community-Led Growth
Building community as a strategy for success.
Ryan Hoover
Nick Mehta
What IT Customers Want
What do IT customers really want? In this session, we'll learn what the future of IT looks like from the perspective of enterprise buyers.
Cathleen Southwick
Mark Settle
Eric Tan
Product-Market Fit?
It's the closest thing in startupland to a Zen koan: How do you know when you've found product-market fit?
Jen Grant
Stacey Epstein
Limitless Possibility
A look at the unconstrained applications of AI/ML.
Andrew Feldman
Serena Yeung
Scaling Go-to-Market
Building and growing a go-to-market machine.
Corey Thomas
Prashanth Chandrasekar
Do You Want to Build a Snowflake?
Frank Slootman, CEO of Snowflake, closes out FCBUILD by opening up about having the most successful software IPO in history.