Paper Belt On Fire: Fireside Chat with Michael Gibson

1030 Swinney Avenue,Fort Wayne IN 46802

22 February, 2023

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Start Fort Wayne is proud to present the Fort Wayne leg of Michael Gibson's "Paper Belt On Fire" book tour. Michael Gibson is co-founder of the 1517 Fund, a venture capital fund investing in teams led by dropouts, the uncredentialed, and renegade scientists. Previously he was vice president for grants at the Thiel Foundation and a principal at Thiel Capital, where he helped launch and run the Thiel Fellowship. He has written on innovation and technology for MIT’s Technology Review, the Atlantic, National Review, and City Journal. His book, Paper Belt on Fire, was published in November 2022. We will be meeting at the Electric Works Campus Forum (27A, just off of the Swinney Ave parking lot) on Wednesday, February 22nd. Networking: 5:30-6pm Conversation: 6pm-7pm Networking: 7-8pm Please direct any questions to Dan Swartz: [email protected].