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Just imagine if every incumbent healthcare organization had this clean of a brand 💡

Every early founder should be this involved with their initial customers

Erandi from Forge Biologics is joining Drive Capital full-time as our new partner.

Forge is a company we incubated out of our Columbus office, and 4 years later it was acquired for $620M!

Welcome to the team 🚙

'One of the things that I loved about founding Forge, and doing it here in Columbus, was having the chance to build something that was meaningful and has impact – and I think I get to have a front-row seat to doing that at Drive, on the other side of the table.'

We're thrilled…

I’m one of the south side to Evanston ones

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95 days alcohol free 🥂

First Humane AI Pin spotted in the wild tonight at AITinkerers Chicago Drive Capital offices.

Cool to see the utility but still don’t see why it would replace anything I currently do with my watch or phone.

The owner said he’s more interested to tap into the SDK for his…

Doubling down, two nights in Chicago. This time at the beautiful Drive Capital offices! Over a 100 tinkerers showing off what they’re building. So much creativity and innovation in one room. 🤯

Another month, another AI meetup. We’re off the races with our 8th AITinkerers Chicago event. Largest one yet. Always at Drive Capital.

Starting today’s meetup with a fireside chat ft. John Agan at Replit ⠕ and Kartik.

Thanks to Brex and Anshul Shah for sponsoring.

Construction for Google Chicago 2.0 has officially begun.

Great night in Chicago with Brex Anshul Shah

📍Life Update: Moved to Chicago!

Rivian paused their $5B plans in Georgia, choosing to build in Illinois instead. This move solidifies our state's position as a clean tech hub.

Read more about Rivian, incoming data centers, and events around the city in this week’s newsletter:

thedrivechicago.com/p/rivian

buildillinois recap 2023-2024: a hackathon with over $100k in prizes, firesides with massive vc’s, dinner with cory levy and a 16-startup march-madness style summit.

𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞’𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲:

𝐚𝐮𝐠𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟑:
over summer i’d been tweeting about the entrepreneurship…

74 degrees in Chicago

Hosted a curated PM meetup with ZoCo Design yesterday for the top product leaders in Chicago.

A quote that stood out from one of our mini-discussions:

'If I started my product career over again, the first skills I'd invest in would be storytelling and negotiation.'