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From GrubHub to Braintree, a look back at the Polsky Center’s legacy of supporting startups
Startups weren’t so sexy 25 years ago. It was pre-Google, pre-dot-com bubble, pre-unicorn. The University of Chicago’s business school, renowned for finance, didn’t offer an entrepreneurship concentration.
Steven Kaplan, a newly tenured professor in 1996, had just started teaching a class in entrepreneurial finance when a student, Jeff Meyers, MBA’97, popped his head into his office and suggested they hold a business plan competition. Kaplan told him to go ahead and organize it.
“I knew nothing about startups. Zero,” Kaplan recalled.
Kaplan rustled up a few judges and $25,000 in prize money, and the New Venture Challenge was born.
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Crain’s Chicago Business. Additionally, he was awarded the Dewey Winburne Community Service Award at the South by Southwest conference.
Joshua Motta, AB’06, is the CEO and co-founder of Coalition, a cyber insurance company that provides comprehensive coverage for risks posed by the increasing digitized world. He is a technology innovator and entrepreneur with experience in both the public and private sector.
Prior to Coalition, Motta was instrumental in the growth of the web performance and security company Cloudflare, where he led special projects. Both the
and the World Economic Forum have recognized Cloudflare for its innovations in networking and internet technology.