In an exclusive podcast, Berkeley SkyDeck Executive Director Caroline Winnett chats with the Amazon best-selling author David Riemer on his new Get Your Startup Story Straight: The Definitive Storytelling Framework for Innovators and Entrepreneurs. What is storytelling? What are the techniques you can use to make your product story interesting? How…

In this episode, Caroline Winnett speaks to Marc Tarpenning, cofounder of Tesla, as he talks about his how he got his start, his time at UC Berkeley, his experience getting Tesla off the ground, and his current journey in the world of tech investing.

Rich Lyons, the former Dean of UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business, became the Chief Innovation and Entrepreneurship Officer for the university at the start of this year. Lyons sits down with SkyDeck’s Executive Director Caroline Winnett to discuss his vision to expand upon the university’s intellectual capital to become a major hub for visionary…

Paul Chen is a former senior investment manager at Alibaba and tech banker at Goldman Sachs who has brokered many deals between Chinese and Western companies, focusing on AI, Big Data, healthcare, robotics, autonomous cars, and other deep tech. He continues to invest in startups and stocks with his personal portfolio. He also regularly advises star…

In the inaugural episode of the Berkeley SkyDeck podcast, Sibyl Chen, Senior Director of Berkeley SkyDeck interviews Caroline Winnett, Executive Director of Berkeley SkyDeck and Chon Tang, Founding Partner at the SkyDeck Fund, about their professional background as well as SkyDeck’s current mission, culture, and future vision. The conversation focu…