# 1:1 with execs from OpenAI, NVIDIA, NEA, Cisco | Unstuck your startup | Early stage founders

An event for early stage founders, especially pre-seed and seed startups, focused on blockers, growth, and building and scaling. It is also for founders who want direct roundtables with speakers from startup and tech companies.

- When: Sat, Nov 14, 2026 · 12:30–17:30 (America/Los_Angeles time)
- Where: Brower Center, Brower Center, 2150 Allston Way, Berkeley, CA 94704, USA, United States
- Format: In person
- Type: Meetup
- Topics: AI, GenAI & LLMs, Startups & VC
- For: Founders
- Price: Paid
- Organizer: DECODE
- Register and details: https://luma.com/1raijfsw

## About

Sold out in 2025. Register before it sells out again.
3 things that make this different:
It is built for the earliest stage. Every session targets a blocker pre-seed and seed founders are hitting right now, and sends you home with tactics you can use on Monday.
Close interation with speakers, who stay in the room. After each main-stage session, the panelists sit down for an off-the-record roundtable with 12 to 15 founders.
Every speaker has been in your seat. All of them have founded, funded, or advised a pre-seed or seed startup.
Is the ticket price stopping you? Apply to be a DECODE Scholar
DECODE Scholars, in partnership with Delphi, covers the ticket for founders who should be in this room but cannot pay for it.
Each Scholar gets:
• A free conference ticket
• A seat at one roundtable with the panelists, right after their session
Apply for yourself, or nominate a founder you think should be here. It takes about 5 minutes.
👉 Apply or nominate here
Agenda:
Knowing When To Build For Speed And When To Build For Scale
Jeetu Patel (President & Chief Product Officer at Cisco)
Shuo Chen (General Partner at IOVC; Lecturer at UC Berkeley and Stanford)
Building a Repeatable Growth Engine
Yuriy Timen (Head of Growth at Superhuman)
Vaibhav Aggarwal (Head of Growth Engineering at OpenAI)
Guy Marion (Chief Marketing & Growth Officer at Chargebee)
Jaclyn Ling (Co-founder & CEO at Bento; Venture Partner at Pioneer Fund; Ex-YC founder)
Landing a Customer Ten Thousand Times Your Size
Ty…

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