Session Title
A Conversation with Eric Friedman, Co-founder & CTO of Fitbit, YC'99 GSAS '00
Location
Yale School of Management
Submission Type
Presentation
Presentation Track
Keynote Address
Start Date
10-28-2016 11:00 AM
End Date
10-28-2016 12:15 PM
Description
Yale alum Eric Friedman YC '99, GSAS '00, chief technology officer and co-founder of Fitbit, will be the keynote speaker at the third annual 2016 Yale Technology Summit.
Eric has served as an engineer manager at CNET Networks, as a co-founder of Wind-Up Labs, a founding engineer of Epesi Technologies, and a technical member of the Real-Time Collaboration Group at Microsoft Corporation. He holds a B.S. and M.S. in computer science from Yale University, and has served on Fitbit's board of directors since 2007.
Founded in 2007, Fitbit is a San Francisco-based company in the global wearables market whose devices track and record personal health metrics such as heart rate, activity level, calories burned, and sleep. Fitbit helps people lead healthier, more active lives by empowering them with data, inspiration and guidance to reach their goals, according to the company's mission statement.
A Conversation with Eric Friedman, Co-founder & CTO of Fitbit, YC'99 GSAS '00
Yale School of Management
Yale alum Eric Friedman YC '99, GSAS '00, chief technology officer and co-founder of Fitbit, will be the keynote speaker at the third annual 2016 Yale Technology Summit.
Eric has served as an engineer manager at CNET Networks, as a co-founder of Wind-Up Labs, a founding engineer of Epesi Technologies, and a technical member of the Real-Time Collaboration Group at Microsoft Corporation. He holds a B.S. and M.S. in computer science from Yale University, and has served on Fitbit's board of directors since 2007.
Founded in 2007, Fitbit is a San Francisco-based company in the global wearables market whose devices track and record personal health metrics such as heart rate, activity level, calories burned, and sleep. Fitbit helps people lead healthier, more active lives by empowering them with data, inspiration and guidance to reach their goals, according to the company's mission statement.