Samir Mayekar
@chicagosamir
Former Chicago Deputy Mayor. Current Managing Director @polskycenter @uchicago Retweets ≠ endorsements ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶
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https://www.chicago.gov/city/en/sites/invest_sw/home.html 17-07-2008 14:40:53
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Great night cheering on the Chicago Sky courtesy of John Oxtoby Ariel Investments + team owner (and The University of Chicago trustee) John Rogers. Season ticket sales up 38% this year - was a fun game to watch despite the L
Had a chance today to give the keynote address to the TeamUIDP Midwest forum of industry & university leaders focused on advancing the innovation economy in our region...shared the story of my startup and now my role at Polsky Center at the University of Chicago The University of Chicago
Started the morning today with a breakfast chat with several Polsky Center at the University of Chicago exchange entrepreneurs to discuss their businesses and some of my learnings from my startup days
Can attest the Acquired Podcast podcast is one of my favorites...interesting feature in the The Wall Street Journal on the dynamic duo who have long format pods on the creation story of some of the greatest companies of our era (Novo Nordisk, Microsoft, LVMH, Nvidia)
wsj.com/business/media…
Great to catch up with my friend, entrepreneur & Former Deputy Mayor of the City of Chicago Samir Mayekar on his visit to London last week. 🇬🇧🇺🇸
Samir Mayekar Polsky Center at the University of Chicago
Updated estimates of #immigrant #entrepreneurship in the US by Bill Kerr & coauthors. Tons of powerful insights. Bottom line: 'Immigrants contribute disproportionately to entrepreneurship'
Major news at Field Museum unveiling the acquisition of an Archaeopteryx, which is the first fossil to show the linkage between dinosaurs and birds (and at the time these were discovered help yield credibility to Darwin’s work on evolution). wsj.com/science/biolog…
It was a pleasure giving a keynote at the DoD Small Business national conference here in Chicago where I shared the story of founding & building NanoGraf Corporation and the work of Polsky Center at the University of Chicago to create deep tech companies advancing the US economy.
Congrats to the team at Hyde Park Venture Partners on raising their 4th fund at $98M this is exciting for our startup ecosystem in #Chicago and for our team Polsky Center at the University of Chicago The University of Chicago 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
Today in 1893, the World's Columbian Exposition opened in Chicago's Jackson Park area. The Griffin Museum of Science and Industry is one of the remnants from it. Introduces at this event - the Ferris Wheel, the Zipper, PBR beer, Wrigley's Juicy Fruit Gum, the automatic dishwasher & Cracker Jack Popcorn.
