STEVE HOFFMAN
TOPICS -  • Adversity • Challenge • Coaching • Innovation
• Investments • Management • Presentation Skills • Sales
• Technology • Workshops

STEVE HOFFMAN - PROGRAMS

• Innovation Explosion: Make Elephants Fly
• Innovation Leadership: Self-Managed Teams
• The Secrets of Silicon Valley Investors
• Startup Minds: Unicorn Thinking
• Perfecting Your Pitch: The Art of Selling
• Robotics, IoT, Blockchain & The Future of Industry
• AI Ecosystems & Platforms
• Silicon Valley and the Future of Hollywood
• Technology of Tomorrow: CRISPR, NanoTech, Life on Mars, 
   MindTech & Smart Cities
• 5G: The Hope, The Hype & The Reality

STEVE HOFFMAN - BIOGRAPHY

     Steve Hoffman, or Captain Hoff as he's called in Silicon Valley, is the CEO of Founders Space, one of the world's leading incubators and accelerators, with over 50 partners in 22 countries. He's also an angel investor, limited partner at August Capital, serial entrepreneur, and author of Make Elephants Fly, the award-winning book on radical innovation.
     Always innovating on his life, Captain Hoff has tried more professions than cats have lives, including serial entrepreneur, venture capitalist, angel investor, studio head, computer engineer, filmmaker, Hollywood TV exec, published author, coder, game designer, manga rewriter, animator and voice actor.
     Hoffman was the Founder and Chairman of the Producers Guild Silicon Valley Chapter, Board of Governors of the New Media Council, and founding member of the Academy of Television's Interactive Media Group.
     While in Hollywood, Hoffman worked as a TV development executive at Fries Entertainment, known for producing over a hundred TV shows (acquired by MGM). He went on to pioneer interactive television with his venture-funded startup Spiderdance, which produced interactive TV shows with NBC, MTV, Turner, Warner Brothers, History Channel, Game Show Network and others.
     In Silicon Valley, Hoffman founded two more venture-backed startups, in the areas of games and entertainment, and worked as Mobile Studio Head for Infospace, with such hit mobile games as Tetris, Wheel of Fortune, Tomb Raider, Thief, Hitman, Skee-Ball and X-Files.
     Hoffman went on to launch Founders Space, with the mission to educate and accelerate entrepreneurs. Founders Space has become one of the top startup accelerators in the world. Hoffman has trained hundreds of startup founders and corporate executives in the art of innovation and routinely works with the world's largest global corporations and venture funds.
     Hoffman has a BS from the University of California in Computer Engineering and an MFA from the University of Southern California in Cinema Television. He currently resides in San Francisco but spends most of his time in the air, visiting startups, investors and innovators all over the world.

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STEVE HOFFMAN - MEDIA

Make Elephants Fly is all about the process of radical innovation. How do the smartest companies in Silicon Valley out innovate and out compete the rest of the world? Drawing on Captain Hoff’s experience incubating and accelerating hundreds of startups as the CEO of Founders Space, this book shows you everything it takes to make your big idea fly.


Surviving a Startup takes you through the nuts and bolts and sweat and tears of running a real business. It’s about dealing with dysfunctional teams, hitting dead ends, messing up half the time, losing money and self-confidence, and then moving forward. It’s about what it’s actually like to be an entrepreneur when things go wrong. It’s also about the process and planning. Hoffman shows you exactly what he learned running his own startups and coaching others. He has mentored hundreds of founders, collaborated with some of the most brilliant minds in the world, and come to understand what it takes to break through.
Working with first-time entrepreneurs, Hoffman has seen them rise up, surmount impossible odds, and pioneer new industries. He shows you how companies create real value, and why certain business models work while others are doomed to failure.