Insights from Oliver Samwer: Building Successful Internet Ventures

Oliver Samwer / Rocket Internet+European founders speaking today at CBS/Uris Hall" "" "Columbia is proud to host Oliver Samwer one of the most successful serial entrepreneurs in Europe at Columbia, Friday 2nd March, from 12.30-1.30PM. Location: 142 Uris Hall" "" "Oliver Samwer has helped to start more internet ventures than anyone else outside the United States. He is one of the most successful serial entrepreneurs in European internet and was awarded e.g., Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum and recently Internet Entrepreneur of the Decade in Germany." "" "This will be a unique opportunity to hear Oliver Samwer talk about what it takes to create a successful internet venture and how you become the market leader in a competitive environment. Also hear more about the exciting new ventures Oliver is starting and the latest e-commerce trends happening around the world." "" "Oliver Samwer has with his brothers, Alexander and Marc, started over 100 successful internet businesses in Europe, South America and Asia in the last 12 years with over 34 successful exits to eBay, Verisign, Groupon and many others. He was also an early investor in Facebook, Eventbrite, LinkedIn and Zynga. In the last 18 months he built up Citydeal/Groupon International in 43 countries as well as many other entrepreneurial ventures." "" "Oliver and his team are currently launching a number of internet ventures worldwide. He is looking to hire MBA and Undergraduates as founders for new internet ventures and in a number of senior full-time leadership and Internship roles. Their management team is full of alumni from Columbia, Stanford, HBS, McKinsey, BCG, Goldman Sachs and Google." "" "Oliver will be on campus before and after the event and is interested to meet 1-1 with students interested in hearing about founder opportunities and other job opportunities with new internet ventures outside of the United States . Please send an email with your resume to ac@rocket-internet.com with “Oliver - Columbia” in the subject field to apply for an interview. " "" "We look forward to seeing you at this exciting event.