Conrad Egusa is the CEO of Espacio Media Incubator, which has offices in the US, Colombia and Spain. He is an Advisor at Microsoft for Startups. He is also a Global Mentor at 500 Startups, Founder Institute, Techstars, Cardinal Ventures of Stanford University, and Oxford Entrepreneurs. Earlier, prior to the financial crisis in 2008, he had received a job offer to work at Bear Stearns, before pursuing a career in technology. His father had a long career at Morgan Stanley as an equity analyst. He is motivated to write for Seeking Alpha to cover technology companies in Silicon Valley and across emerging markets. He does not believe that technology in these countries across the globe receive enough visibility. He has traveled internationally and covered technology ecosystems for publications including TechCrunch and VentureBeat, and has a passion for private and publicly-traded technology companies. He has also written for Inc. Magazine. He studied at Santa Clara University and Harvard Business School. He first got started in technology when he founded an angel-investor backed startup in Silicon Valley while in university. He later founded the first co-working space in Medellin, Colombia. He has served at IE Business School, and as a Judge for Startup Weekend Medellin and Startup Weekend Barranquilla. He is on the Advisory Board at SXSW Pitch, which is part of the SXSW, which runs March 13-22 in Austin, Texas, and showcases innovative new technology to a panel of industry experts, high-profile media professionals and investors. He is also a Judge at Startup-Chile and at Parallel18.
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