2024 Livestream Panel Discussions for Founders and Investors.
Wednesday mornings at 11am Pacific, hosted by Foley & Lardner and 4thly.
On Wednesday mornings we present a series of livestream panel discussion for startup founders and investors. Guests include attorneys, venture capital investors, and sector experts as we discuss topics and trends for 2024. Join us!
- Wednesday, January 24: Term Sheets for 2024.
For startup founders and investors, term sheets are the Rosetta Stone for each financing transaction. Unlike the Rosetta Stone, terms that are considered ordinary and customary change a little every year, as economic tides flow and the startup ecosystem evolves. Join us as a panel of experts discuss term sheets for venture financings including SAFE side-letters and more. Register now. - Wednesday, January 31: AI Regulations for Startups and Investors
On October 30th, the Biden Administration issued an executive order on “Harnessing AI for good and realizing its myriad benefits requires mitigating its substantial risks”. What does this mean, exactly, and how should startups developing AI technology make sure they are developing engines that are compliant with the emerging regulatory environment? Join us as a panel of experts discusses all this and more. Register now. - Wednesday, February 7: How antitrust regulators are affecting M&A transactions.
Last year saw Adobe/Figma, Microsoft/Activision, and several other M&A deals scuttled or modified by the regulators. FTC commissioner Lina Khan has been on a mission to suppress monopoly power, as her agency has blocked several large M&A transactions. The CMA in the EU and UK also are increasingly uncomfortable with the market power of the global tech companies. How should founders and investors think about this in 2024? Register now. - Wednesday, February 14: Basic Governance for Startups and Investors
The biggest disasters in 2023 startup news – FTX, SVB, OpenAI – were all largely due to bad governance structures. What was learned and how should founders and investors create good structures that allow founders to operate at light-speed while still giving investors and shareholders the comfort that good governance in in place? Register now.
Hosts:
Bret Waters, Moderator
Bret Waters has been in Silicon Valley his entire life as an entrepreneur, executive, and investor. Today he teaches entrepreneurship at Stanford, runs the 4thly Startup Accelerator, and coaches startup CEO’s at Miller Center for Social Entrepreneurship. He’s successfully raised capital multiple times in his career, and the entrepreneurs he has worked with have raised hundreds of millions of dollars in capital. He received his MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.
Louis Lehot
Louis Lehot is a partner and business lawyer with Foley & Lardner LLP, based in the firm’s Silicon Valley offices, where he is a member of the Private Equity & Venture Capital, M&A and Transactions Practices as well as the Technology, Health Care, Life Sciences and Energy Industry Teams. Louis focuses his practice on advising entrepreneurs and their management teams, investors and financial advisors at all stages of growth, from garage to global. Louis especially enjoys being able to help his clients achieve hyper-growth, go public and to successfully obtain optimal liquidity events. Learn more.
