SPEAKER

Mike Lazerow

Velvet Sea Ventures
Co-Founder & Managing Partner
(Former Co-Founder & CEO, Buddy Media, Inc.)

About Mike
Kass and Mike Lazerow are serial entrepreneurs and investors best known as the cofounders of Golf.com and Buddy Media, a software company that sold to Salesforce.com for $745 million. With a lifetime of stories from decades of building businesses and helping others as investors and advisors, they are in high demand as public speakers, writers, and podcast guests.
Together and individually, Kass and Mike have earned multiple awards as entrepreneurs and philanthropists. They were ranked No. 1 on the Silicon Alley 100 and the couple joined Alan Mulally (Ford and Boeing) and A.G. Lafley (P&G) as recipients of the Leader of the Future Award from the Frances Hesselbein Leadership Institute. They received the Cycle for Survival Game Changer Award and are part of the Memorial Sloan Kettering Leadership Council. Ernst & Young named Mike as its Entrepreneur of the Year in 2011, and he was listed in Fortune magazine’s 40 Under 40 and Crain’s New York 40 Under 40, and Ad Age Digital’s A-List. Northwestern University’s Medill School named Mike to the 2024 Hall of Achievement, the school’s highest honor, which recognizes alumni who make lasting positive impacts on their fields and communities.

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