Austin Bunn is an associate professor in Cornell University’s Department of Performing & Media Arts, where he teaches screenwriting and playwriting. Mr. Bunn won the 2017 Carpenter Memorial Advising Award for his work helping students connect with professionals in film, television, theatre, and media. As a filmmaker, he co-wrote the script for ”Kill Your Darlings,” starring Daniel Radcliffe and Dane DeHaan, which debuted at the Sundance Film Festival and won the International Days Prize at the Venice Film Festival. He has also written feature screenplays for Fox 2000, Lionsgate, Participant Media, and Page1, and he has served as a mentor at the Screenwriters Colony (Nantucket) and Outfest Screenwriting Lab. Mr. Bunn’s award-winning short films “Lavender Hill” and “In the Hollow” have screened nationally and internationally at various film festivals. He is also the author of the short-story collection “The Brink,” which was selected as a Lamdba Lit finalist and for the Electric Literature “Best Short Story Collection of 2015.” Mr. Bunn worked for nearly a decade as a journalist, and his fiction and nonfiction have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic, Zoetrope, The Pushcart Prize, Best American Science and Nature Writing, and elsewhere.
The Journey Up
Event Overview
Participants will hear about the professional pivots Chad pulled off during his career, including high-profile positions at Salon.com and Yahoo!, as well his post-Etsy career as an executive coach and Cornell Tech Fellow.
This interactive online event will also include a speed-pitch session, in which five undergraduates will pitch their business concepts to Chad for impromptu feedback.
The “In Focus Speaker Series” features industry leaders talking about their winding career paths, what they worked on before their first big breakthroughs, and how the twists and turns of their careers led them to where they are now.
What You'll Learn
- The career-path pivot points and choices of a serial entrepreneur
- How to grow a socially responsible company
- How to pitch your business concept and learn from critique
- An overview of the unique multidisciplinary curriculum offered by the Milstein Program in Technology & Humanity
Speakers
Chad Dickerson was the CEO of Etsy from July 2011 to May 2017, leading the company in its mission and growing it into a global community of creative entrepreneurs and their customers. He now runs his own executive coaching practice, Strong Back Open Heart, and serves as a Cornell Tech Fellow, co-leading and co-teaching the BigCo Studio curriculum track. Before joining Etsy, Chad led Yahoo!’s Brickhouse and Advanced Products incubators, as well as the Yahoo! Developer Network. He created the Yahoo! Hack Day initiative in 2005, the first internal innovation program of its kind in a large company. Chad came to Yahoo! from InfoWorld Media Group (IDG), where he served as CTO for nearly five years and wrote a popular weekly column for CTOs. Prior to InfoWorld, Chad served as CTO of Salon.com and in various engineering positions at CNN, CNN/Sports Illustrated, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, and The (Raleigh, NC) News & Observer. Chad holds a B.A. in English literature from Duke University, where he focused on the works of Shakespeare, the world’s best writer on the challenges of leadership (“Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.”)
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