Semil Shah works on mobile, growth, and operations with a small handful of early-stage, venture-backed companies. Previously he spent six months as an EIR with Javelin Venture Partners, a San Francisco-based venture capital firm investing in software startups for consumers and the enterprise, as well as in cloud technologies and infrastructure. Prior to this, he's held operational roles at Votizen and Rexly (acquired by Live Nation) and have also been an Official Columnist at TechCrunch since January 2011, where he writes a weekly column on Sundays ("Iterations") and run a weekly television show on Thursdays ("In the Studio)," where he hosts founders, operators, and seed-stage and venture capital investors in the TechCrunch TV Studios.

The event was held November 7, 2013.

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