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meet Dave
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A.K.A...
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Facebook fanboy &startup mentor
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Dave likes to hang out at...
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the University Cafe
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...and give startupsthe religion of metrics.
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But he cannot meet everyone...
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he has conferences to organize...
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...and two doting kids
he wants to spend time with
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He createspresentations to get his ideas across
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He used to email them around
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After a conference, he would takebusiness cards & email them individually
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One day, he read onTechCrunch about...
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Michael Arrington called it theYouTube of PowerPoint
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Dave tried it and was hooked!
He now uploads to SlideShare before giving a talk
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When someone asks for slides, he says "go to my SlideShare page"
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even better: people who missed the talkstill find his presentation!
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His ideas are spreading,new people find his slides everyday on SlideShare.
Dave is a happy man!
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He met Rashmi, the CEO of SlideShare who invited
him to become an advisor
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Hal, Ross & Guy Joining other advisors...
Hal Varian Ross Mayfield Guy Kawasaki
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Dave believed in the company and decided to invest
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Soon others joined him in investing in SlideShare...
... Jonathan, Ariel, Yee, Saul, Mark
Jonathan Abrams
Ariel Poler
Yee Lee Saul Klein Mark Cuban
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...including David & Dev from
David SiminoffDev Khare
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These guys write bigger checksthan Dave.
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…David Siminoff has joined SlideShare’s board
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Now SlideShare has a new office inSan Francisco with orange walls
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They‘re looking for Ruby hackers,Linux sys admins, and Community managers for one reason and one reason only...
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...so that people like Dave can upload even more presentations to SlideShare!
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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