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Bill Reichert, General Partner, Pegasus Tech Ventures / Author, Getting to Wow!

Bio

Bill Reichert is a Silicon Valley-based venture capitalist, entrepreneur, author and founder.

After 23 years investing alongside Guy Kawasaki as a co-founder and managing director of Garage Technology Ventures, he recently joined Pegasus Tech Ventures as a partner. At Pegasus, he's spearheading the firm's Startup World Cup, an international competition for entrepreneurs.

His focus as a venture capitalist is on emerging technologies across several sectors including AI, quantum computing and healthtech.

Bill is the author of the recently published book, Getting to Wow, full of tips for entrepreneurs on how to pitch to venture capitalists. He also has been a lecturer at the University of California, Berkeley.

Earlier in his career, Reichert worked at McKinsey, Brown Brothers Harriman, and the World Bank, and co-founded a software startup. He also has held top posts at two educational startups that went public.

He holds an MBA from Stanford and an A.B. from Harvard University.

Bio: Rebecca A. Fannin

Rebecca is the founder of news and events group Silicon Dragon Ventures. Her journalistic career covering global innovation began in Silicon Valley during the dotcom era. Following the venture capital trail to Asia, she was one of the first American journalists to write about China’s entrepreneurial boom, interviewing Jack Ma of Alibaba and Robin Li of Baidu, among others. A regular media commentator and speaker, she also has frequently contributed to CNBC and Forbes, and her articles have appeared in Harvard Business Review, CEO and Inc. magazine. Rebecca’s three forward-looking books, Silicon Dragon, Startup Asia and her latest title, Tech Titans of China, are a go-to resource on top innovation trends and players. Rebecca has worked in the world's leading tech hotspots as a pioneering journalist and host of numerous events and forums.

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