Pascal Finette

Managing Director, Singularity University Labs

Pascal Finette heads up the Startup Program at Singularity University where he grows startups tackling the world’s most intractable problems leveraging exponential technologies. Finette loves technology and believes that the Internet is deeply impacting mankind. He got started on the Net before there was a web browser, founded a couple of technology startups, led eBay’s Platform Solutions Group in Europe, launched a consulting firm helping entrepreneurs with their strategy & operations, invested into early-stage tech startups, led Mozilla’s Innovation Lab, created the Mozilla accelerator program WebFWD, headed up Mozilla’s Office of the Chair, and invested into social impact organizations around the globe at Google.org. He also founded the non-profit organizations Mentor for Good, POWERUP and The Coaching Fellowship, the GyShiDo (Get Your S%#& Done) movement, and publishes the opinionated The Heretic newsletter.

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