We visited the headquarters of Asana is an application that enables companies to communicate and track member’s work in a streamlined, effective way. We then had dinner with several Asana employees and Wesleyan alumni, including those we’ve already with Alex, Pi, and Mika, as well as Max Gunawan, Adam Smiley Poswolsky, and Nina Chen. - Rosa Munson-Blatt '21 & Frederick Corpuz '20
We visited 500 Startups, a venture capital with a vision of “Since our inception, we’ve made it our mission to find and empower talented founders, whether they’re across the world or overlooked in our own backyard.” Upon entering the space, we felt a buzzing atmosphere with a seminar with 50 rising entrepreneurs in attendance and other teams in the background working on whiteboards, sticky notes, and desktops. - Frederick Corpuz '20
We visited the headquarters of Pixar where alumni Elyse Klaidman and Noah Newman gave us a tour. We had the opportunity to see internal exhibits that Elyse had curated on the recently released film Coco as well as the upcoming Incredibles 2 and Toy Story 4 movies. - Kiana Autry-Dawkins '18 & Rosa Munson-Blatt '21
Students visited Venn Arts with Jonathan Hecht '04, dev.to with Peter Frank '12, and ZMC with Strauss Zelnick '79. Reflections are written by Dmytro Babachanakh '20, Jessica Chen '20, Abhishek Fakiraswamimath '20, and Kofi Ofori-Darko '20. (Picture above is at Venn Arts with Jonathan Hecht.)
Students visited Apple to have lunch with Paul Johnson '08 and toured IDEO with Amanda Sim '08. Thursday's reflections are written by Tristan Ang '19 and Virginia Johnson '18.
Students visited Illumina to meet with Julie Baher '88 and toured Slack to meet with Caroline McCarthy '13. Wednesday's reflections are written by Yuan Wang '20 and Christina Wang '20
Students visited Facebook to meet with Lingyuan Keh' '13 and Kate Zyskowski '08. They also had dinner with Nina Chen '10 (Amazon) and Adam Smiley Poswolsky '05 (best-selling author). Tuesday's reflections are written by Gelsson Ortiz '18 and Maximo Lipman '20.
Students visited Oracle Corporation to meet with Rhonda Stieber (RPI Class of '88) and her team. They also had visited Sense Inc. to talk to Alex Rosen '08. Lastly, they had dinner with Erik Islo '15 (Apple). Monday's reflections are written by Huaiyu Chen '20 and Taj Richards '20.
Over spring break, Kai Wes traveled to Silicon Valley to learn from Wesleyan graduates and entrepreneurs. Leah Cabrera, Olivia Chavez, and Fortune Jackson-Bartelmus wrote a reflection on their trip below. Linked here is a short video of the experience.
