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Proposition:
Reid Hoffman
Jonathan Kestenbaum

Opposition:
Dr William H. Janeway
Professor Andrew Gamble

Reid Hoffman is Executive Chairman and a co-founder of LinkedIn, a business-oriented social networking site. He was Executive Vice President of PayPal and was instrumental to the acquisition by eBay and also worked at Apple.

Jonathan Kestenbaum is Chief Executive of The National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts. NESTA is the largest endowment in the UK exclusively dedicated to fostering innovation. He is a graduate of the LSE and Cambridge.

Bill Janeway is a senior adviser at Warburg Pincus. His experience encompasses over thirty years of practical finance in investment banking and venture capital. It was his investment strategy for Information Technology that established the firm as a global leader.


Andrew Gamble is Head of the Department of Politics and International Studies in Cambridge and writes on the political economy of the British state. He recently published The Spectre at the Feast: Capitalist Crisis and the Politics of Recession.

This debate is kindly sponsored by BDO Stoy Hayward. And part of Silicon Valley Comes to Cambridge 2009.

Thursday, 19th November, 7:30pm

Date: Thu 19th November, 2009 at 7:30pm

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