About The Lobby Conferences
The flagship Lobby Conference was founded in 2007, bringing together a curated group of thought leaders from the startup world, the digital media establishment, and traditional media outlets, together with leading venture capitalists to talk about the future of digital media. The Lobby quickly became one of the industry’s most coveted invitations and has sold out year after year.
In 2014, the Lobby:Enterprise was launched to capture the energy of the consumer Lobby conference, but serve the enterprise community. Lobby:Enterprise gathers the founders and CEOs from the most interesting startups, the leading Cloud and infrastructure providers, the preeminent enterprise application companies, and the thought leaders in financial technology, as well as the leading investors in the enterprise space.
For three days, we bring together highly accomplished individuals to have great conversations and engage in meaningful experiences. The Lobby conferences are designed to maximize open and honest conversation and nurture long-term relationships. The Lobby conferences are entirely off the record; as a result, attendees are willing to speak more freely and collaboratively about the topics that are most important to them. People leave the Lobby conferences more informed, more engaged, and better connected.
The Lobby conferences are hosted and curated by David Hornik of Lobby Capital
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Founder
David Hornik
The Lobby Conferences are curated and hosted by David Hornik, General Partner at Lobby Capital. For the last 25 years he has worked closely with technology entrepreneurs to help them build transformative businesses. Prior to founding Lobby Capital, David was a partner at August Capital for 20 years. David invests in a broad range of software companies, including enterprise application, infrastructure, and SaaS businesses (e.g., Splunk, Fastly, GitLab), financial technology companies (e.g., Bill.com, WePay, PayNearMe), and consumer services (e.g., Evite, Ebates, TopHatter).
David has an eclectic educational background. He received an BA from Stanford in Computer Music, an M.Phil in Criminology from Cambridge University, and a JD from Harvard Law School. He teaches courses in entrepreneurship and venture capital at Stanford Business School and Harvard Law School, and serves as a VC Partner at the Harvard Business School.
David started the first venture capital blog, VentureBlog, and the first venture capital podcast, VentureCast, and is the host of LobbyTV. He has served as the Tech Curator for the TED Conference in Vancouver and was the co-creator and host of TEDxStanford. David has received Deloitte’s Venture Capitalist of the Year award and has been honored by Forbes Magazine as a member of its Midas List of top Venture Capitalists.
David lives in Palo Alto with his wife Pamela, their four children, and their puppy Teddy. David serves on the board of GLAAD, a leading LGTBQ rights organization, and is a member of the board of the Stanford Alumni Association.