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pattimagee wrote: ↑

Sep 21, 2023

^Come on WWT, let's build that corporate office overlooking the MLS stadium already! 

Gainsight’s annual Pulse conference, which brings together customer success and sales professionals, is scheduled for May 14-16 at the America’s Center convention complex in downtown St. Louis. It’s the first time Pulse has been held outside of California’s Bay Area, said Gainsight Chief Marketing Officer Scott Salkin.

“Going back [to St. Louis] is a little bit of going back to our roots,” Salkin said. Gainsight, which provides customer success software, was founded in 2009 by St. Louis entrepreneur Jim Eberlin and Sreedhar Peddineni as JBara Software. It was the first investment of St. Louis venture capital firm Cultivation Capital, with other early investors in Gainsight including St. Louis Arch Angels and Missouri Technology Corp.
Gainsight, which was acquired in 2020 by Austin, Texas-based Vista Equity Partners for $1.1 billion, moved its headquarters to California in 2013. San Francisco-based Gainsight today describes itself as a “remote-friendly” company with locations in six countries. Gainsight has an office in St. Louis at 14500 S. Outer Forty in Town and Country, with more than 100 local employees, said Salkin. Gainsight has more than 1,200 employees globally.
Gainsight provides software designed to help companies better understand their customers and improve engagement with them to improve customer retention and product usage. The Pulse conference aims to bring together customer success and sales professionals from different companies, providing training and networking. The upcoming Pulse event in St. Louis includes programming on topics such as customer relationships and engagement, customer education, artificial intelligence, sales and leadership. The conference includes more than 70 workshops and sessions, along with 16 networking events. Pulse will include a party May 16 at The Armory in Midtown.
Salkin said the decision to bring Pulse to St. Louis comes as technology companies are no longer “centralized as they once were” in San Francisco and Silicon Valley, making a location like St. Louis more apt for the event. The selection of St. Louis for the Pulse conference will make it easier for travel, drawing a more geographically diverse roster of attendees, Salkin said. He said registrations are pacing ahead of previous years. Around 2,500 attendees are expected at the upcoming conference.

For the first time ever, St. Louis has been selected to serve as one of 10 US Cities to compete in the largest global pitch competition, the Startup World Cup.
Hosted in Silicon Valley on Oct. 2 through 4, 2024, the Startup World Cup convenes top startups from 70+ cities around the world to compete for a $1 million cash prize.
Partnering with some of the world’s largest conferences and tech events to host 70+ regional startup competitions for North America, Europe, Asia, South America, Africa, and Australia, the World Cup is hosted by Pegasus Ventures in San Francisco. The global conference brings together the top startups, VCs, entrepreneurs and world-class tech CEOs to support the high-profile pitch competition. Hosting 20+ speakers, 200+ international investors, and 2000+ attendees, the Startup World Cup serves as a global hub for high-growth startups.
2024 will mark the first year that St. Louis is invited to compete, being among only 10 U.S. cities in the global competition. The opportunity was born out of a collaboration between TechSTL and the Skandalaris Center at Washington University, presenting an incredible opportunity for St. Louis companies.
Emily Hemingway, executive director of TechSTL, said, “When we were presented with the chance to bring the Startup World Cup to St. Louis, it was a no-brainer. Our community is home to some incredible startups who are primed for the global stage. The invitation and launch window happened very quickly, but the team at TechSTL is working hard, even in the midst of STL TechWeek, to ensure that the program is executed with integrity over the coming months. We are rallying partners, judges, mentors, and industry leaders to support the 100 startups along this multi-month journey to find our winning team.”
The competition is organized under 10 industries and any locally based business can enter to compete, regardless of their stage, sector, or fundraising history.
Kicking-off at this week’s STL TechWeek at the Closing Ceremony on April 12, companies will be able to enter the competition by submitting a one minute video pitch. Pitches will then be voted by the community to select the top 100 companies, the 10 highest ranked companies within each of the industries.

GoHarvOrGoHome wrote: ↑

Sep 13, 2024

They were interviewing Sam Altman today on STL on the Air and he answered my question:


First I asked about investing in North St. Louis. He said yes, he really wants to give back to STL in a big way. He’s pretty busy right now so it would be a more long term goal.

Second I asked about maybe opening a satellite OpenAI office in STL and he says probably not, at least not on the research side as we don’t have the talent. Potentially there could be an office opened for other roles in the future though (probably like what Block is running at the moment)

Longer term he would like to explore finding a way to get STL to the point where opening an office would actually be a possibility.

TLDR: Nothing imminent coming to STL from our latest wunderkind, but he hasn’t forgotten about us

GoHarvOrGoHome wrote: ↑

Sep 13, 2024

They were interviewing Sam Altman today on STL on the Air and he answered my question:


First I asked about investing in North St. Louis. He said yes, he really wants to give back to STL in a big way. He’s pretty busy right now so it would be a more long term goal.

Second I asked about maybe opening a satellite OpenAI office in STL and he says probably not, at least not on the research side as we don’t have the talent. Potentially there could be an office opened for other roles in the future though (probably like what Block is running at the moment)

Longer term he would like to explore finding a way to get STL to the point where opening an office would actually be a possibility.

TLDR: Nothing imminent coming to STL from our latest wunderkind, but he hasn’t forgotten about us

stlurbanist wrote: ↑

Sep 15, 2024

GoHarvOrGoHome wrote: ↑

Sep 13, 2024

They were interviewing Sam Altman today on STL on the Air and he answered my question:


First I asked about investing in North St. Louis. He said yes, he really wants to give back to STL in a big way. He’s pretty busy right now so it would be a more long term goal.

Second I asked about maybe opening a satellite OpenAI office in STL and he says probably not, at least not on the research side as we don’t have the talent. Potentially there could be an office opened for other roles in the future though (probably like what Block is running at the moment)

Longer term he would like to explore finding a way to get STL to the point where opening an office would actually be a possibility.

TLDR: Nothing imminent coming to STL from our latest wunderkind, but he hasn’t forgotten about us

chicken egg problem. how will you nurture/develop talent if there is dearth of tech companies in the area?

gary kreie wrote: ↑

Jan 23, 2025

What would it take to get Sam Altman to build a Stargate data center in Eastern Missouri, instead of just Texas.
  https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-stargate-ai-openai-softbank-oracle-musk/

moorlander wrote: ↑

Apr 07, 2023

Cash App founder Bob Lee, raised in St. Louis, fatally stabbed in San Francisco

Joey Schneider

1 day ago

SAN FRANCISCO – Bob Lee, a St. Louis-raised tech executive and the founder of Cash App, was stabbed to death Tuesday in San Francisco.

Lee, who has also served as chief product officer of MobileCoin, was fatally stabbed in downtown San Francisco.

Lee was fatally stabbed in the densely populated Rincon Hill neighborhood of San Francisco, near Google’s office and Oracle Park, home to the San Francisco Giants. The neighborhood is a mix of offices and modern condo buildings.

Lee was raised in St. Louis and a graduate of Lindbergh High School in south St. Louis County.


https://fox2now.com/news/missouri/cash- ... cisco/amp/

dredger wrote:PD article on Stereotaxis move and expansion from CORTEX to downtown.  Not sure if old news on thread

https://www.stltoday.com/business/local ... r-business

ST. LOUIS — Just a few years ago, Stereotaxis was on the brink of insolvency, losing millions of dollars a year with millions more in debt.

Now, the local medical device company is growing revenues, adding investors and leaving its longtime home in the Cortex technology district. It expects its new space, at the Globe Building in downtown St. Louis, to more than triple manufacturing capacity. Stereotaxis CEO David Fischel said the new building is designed for collaboration. “It can accommodate significant growth of the team,” he said.

Stereotaxis is cutting the ribbon on its new home on Wednesday. But the move represents more than Stereotaxis’ success. The company was the first tenant at Cortex in the early 2000s. Its move to downtown’s Globe Building marks a key step for the new Downtown North Urban Insight District, north of Washington Avenue.