Tuesday May 28 , 2019 Speaker Series
Alpha Girls Alpha Girls: The Women Upstarts Who Took on Silicon Valley's Male Culture and Made the Deals of a Lifetime takes readers behind closed doors to follow the lives and careers ...
Wednesday May 29 , 2019 Speaker Series
Designing for Our Future: Join Common Sense and the Stanford d.school for a conference on technology and well-being. Featured speakers include Craig Newmark, Tristan Harris, and Dr. Jenny Radesky, who, along ...
NVCA Oral History Collection Unveiled

NVCA Oral History Collection Unveiled

Collection Features 17 Venture Capital Industry Luminaries

The National Venture Capital Association (NVCA) and The Exponential Center at the Computer History Museum (CHM) are pleased to announce a new partnership to preserve and make freely accessible the NVCA Oral History Collection, a rich set of transcripts of 17 venture industry luminaries that have been compiled over the past fifteen years by NVCA. Featured in the collection are: James Blair, Peter Brooke, Mike Brooks, Peter Crisp, William Draper III, Bill Egan, Anthony Evnin, Alan Frazier, Edward Glassmeyer, Richard Kramlich, Charles Lea, Henry McCance, David Morgenthaler, Alan Patricof, James Swartz, Ambassador Walter Curley, and Paul Wythes.

The partnership between NVCA and CHM will not only capture and share the untold stories of pioneering venture capitalists and their partnerships with disruptors and innovators that extend from idea to IPO and beyond, but they will also provide the rich context necessary for an in-depth understanding of venture’s history and impact that will hopefully inspire generations to come. NVCA and CHM will also work together to expand the Collection to include additional oral histories.

The new collection and partnership are key parts of the Exponential Center’s multi-faceted venture capital initiative.

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Museum Highlights

“Woodstock of the Web” at 25

“Woodstock of the Web” at 25

May 2019 marks the 25th anniversary of the first web conference in 1994. Go behind the scenes of the original conference and explore a series of interviews with pioneers reflecting on the web and the past and future of the conference.
Meeting Whirlwind’s Joe Thompson

Meeting Whirlwind’s Joe Thompson

The photograph was dated 1950, a date when a now unimaginably small number of humans had ever beheld a computer, no less touched one, and when unabashed racism and discrimination was endemic on the American scene. Who was the young African-American man who nevertheless sat at the controls of this storied machine? What was his name? What was his story?

Venturing Forth: The Exponential Center Launches a Venture Capital Initiative

Venturing Forth: The Exponential Center Launches a Venture Capital Initiative

The Exponential Center at the Computer History Museum is leading an ambitious program to capture and share the untold stories of pioneering venture capitalists and their partnerships with disruptors and innovators that extend from idea to IPO and beyond. The companies they have created have led to new industries and jobs, generated tremendous wealth, and changed the way we live.
Hacking Our Security: Digital Resilience for the Next Cyber Threat

Hacking Our Security: Digital Resilience for the Next Cyber Threat

Ray Rothrock, chairman and CEO of cybersecurity analytics firm RedSeal and national security expert and Brunswick Partner Siobhan Gorman discussed Rothrock’s timely new book, Digital Resilience: Is Your Company Ready for the Next Cyber Threat?