The Role of Vision and Design in Launching, Funding and Scaling Your Startup with Linden Tibbets, Co-Founder and CEO of IFTTT

• How to craft a captivating founding vision
• How to stay relentlessly focused on executing your vision
• The importance of design for mobile and for scale
• Managing hyper growth

Tibbets, who strives to work at the intersection of design, software development and entertainment, created IFTTT in 2010. Prior to IFTTT, he worked at IDEO as a communications designer. He earned a BS in Computer Engineering from Santa Clara University and held development positions at Wave Systems and Electronic Arts before working at IDEO. Today he continues to serve as CEO for IFTTT.

IFTTT is a service that lets you create powerful connections with simple statements called “recipes.” IFTTT’s customer base has created over 16M Recipes that run 20M times per day. There are currently 400 companies on the IFTTT channel platform working on their channels, and they are expecting to see an explosion of new Channels created and launched in 2015. After closing their Series B round this past August, IFTTT has raised $40M to date.