Arkayne revealing new Socialize tool at Vator Splash – Tune in Live!
As part of our pitch at Vator Splash, Arkayne will be announcing one of our upcoming products. Our new Socialize tool. We’re not giving away all the details quite yet, but if you want a sneak peak, be sure to come to Cafe Du Nord tonight at 4:30, or tune in live using the Ustream video below! Oh what the heck, here’s a sneak peak: (Click the images for a larger view)
Starting at 6PM Tony Hsieh, CEO of Zappos will give a keynote. Immediately after that, Arkayne (we’re first!) and the rest of the finalists will take the stage for three minutes each, and pitch their business in front of the crowd and investors. Gurbaksh Chahal, CEO of gWallet will then speak take the stage at 8:10. Then we find out who got the audience’s vote and the winner will be invited back on stage for a session with a panel of 4 investors.
You can learn more about the all the companies that will be presenting at Vator Splash in our last blog post. We’ve also set up a live stream and provided you with some brief background on the Keynote presenters below. Wish us luck!
Tune in Live at 6PM (PST)!
Tony Hsieh, Author of “Delivering Happiness” and Zappos CEO. In 1999, at the age of 24, Tony Hsieh (pronounced Shay) sold LinkExchange, the company he co-founded, to Microsoft for $265 million. He then joined Zappos as an advisor and investor, and eventually became CEO, where he helped Zappos grow from almost no sales to over $1 billion in gross merchandise sales annually, while simultaneously making Fortune magazines annual Best Companies to Work For list. In November 2009, Zappos was acquired by Amazon.com in a deal valued at $1.2 billion on the day of closing. His first book “Delivering Happiness” will be published on June 7.
Gurbaksh Chahal is a die-hard internet entrepreneur. In ’99, he started his first company, ClickAgents at the age of 16. It was one of the first ad networks focused around performance based advertising. He sold it for $40 million to ValueClick, 18 months later. In January ’04, he launched his second company, BlueLithium. The company was focused on data, optimization, and analytics and became a pioneer of behavioral targeting. Yahoo bought the company in Sept. 2007 for $300 million in cash. In Sept. 2009, Chahal launched gWallet, a virtual currency platform for social networks.
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