Indiegogo Co-Founder to Speak at Berkeley Haas Dean’s Speaker Series
The Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley (Berkeley Haas) will host another installment of its popular Dean’s Speaker Series on March, 3, 2016.
Danae Ringelman, Indiegogo co-founder will deliver the talk. She graduated from Berkeley Haas with an MBA in 2008 after working on Wall Street for JP Morgan in their entertainment investments division. Indiegogo is a global crowdfunding site.
During her childhood Ringelman was inspired by her small-business owning parents, who ran a moving company while raising their family in San Francisco. Observing her parents navigate the difficult waters of raising capital for the company helped Ringelman to formulate her groundbreaking ideas in fundraising. “[My parents] never got a break, never complained, were always loyal to their employees and never cut corners in running their business.” she said in a New York Times profile.
During her tenure on Wall Street, Ringelman further observed how hard work didn’t always equal big money. While helping to produce an Arthur Miller play during this time, she observed that while audiences offered overwhelmingly positive feedback, there was little to no financial support for her to muster. Ringelman decided to seek alternative streams of revenue, which would become the basis for her development of Indiegogo.
She decided to attend Berkeley Haas with the goal of discovering how she could help people with great ideas and little capital forge ahead. It was at Berkeley that she met her Indiegogo co-founders, Slava Rubin and Eric Schell. An early version of the site was launched in 2008 at the Sundance Film Festival, and from there it has blossomed into the phenomenon that it is today.
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Maggie Boccella
Maggie Boccella, a lifelong resident of Philadelphia, is a freelance writer, artist and photographer. She has consulted on various film and multimedia projects, and she also serves as a juror for the city's annual LGBTQIA Film Festival.
