Innovate State: You Are Not An Imposter

651 N. Shaw Ln,East Lansing MI 48824

21 March, 2023

Description

The Innovate State Speaker Series brings both emerging and accomplished Spartans back to campus for a fireside chat-style interview. These 60-minute sessions offer the chance for guests to share their perspectives on a wide array of topics like innovation, startup life, investments, and career paths. Students get the opportunity to hear firsthand about the hard knocks of the entrepreneurship & innovation hustle to maintaining work/life balance. These are stories of success, stories of failures, and stories of uncommon will—and you do not want to miss them. Innovate State kicks-off at 6 p.m. ET in the Larry & Teresa Gaynor Entrepreneurship Lab (651 N. Shaw Ln., M025 Business Pavilion, East Lansing, MI 48824) and are free to the community. Events will be offered in-person only but are available virtually on the Friday following the event at eship.msu.edu/innovate-state/. Early registration is highly encouraged.  About our SpeakerSimon Yu, Co-Founder & CEO, Classjoy Simon Yu is the Co-Founder & CEO of Classjoy - a classroom celebration app that's reimagining how 1.8 billion students connect with their parents daily, starting with the school day. Classjoy empowers everyday teacher heroes with a super simple yet rewarding & engaging place to safely capture & share daily school highlights with parents - elevating family engagement, student wellness, and teacher appreciation. Ultimately disrupting how millennial parents commemorate their child's year and transfer the billions of dollars spent on yearbooks & school pictures back into teachers' hands. Prior to Classjoy, Simon was the Co-Founder of Yuday - an EdTech startup focused on classroom communication. Before entrepreneurship, he worked in private equity at Star Avenue Capital where he invested in growth-stage consumer & retail companies. He began his career in the consumer & retail investment banking coverage group at Deutsche Bank. His passion for education & social impact was ignited after quitting finance to volunteer in Africa where he taught in South Africa, did wildlife conservation in Zimbabwe, and marine conservation in Madagascar. Simon graduated with a bachelor's degree in Finance from Michigan State University and was a Financial Markets Institute Scholar. LocationLarry & Teresa Gaynor Entrepreneurship Lab (651 N. Shaw Ln., M025 Business Pavilion, East Lansing, MI 48824) For further questions, contact Aubrey Haase, [email protected].