David Murphy

David C. Murphy is the Founder & CEO of TechFire, focused accelerating the future of self-driving-cars and startups of all stripes. TechFire has been recognized in Techmeme's list of nationally & internationally significant tech events, and TechFire's Summit on the Self-Driving Car Revolution was broadcast on national TV on C-SPAN. Across 35 events since 2013, TechFire has developed a reputation for featuring titans of tech on stage. A few of our past speakers include: • VCs from Kleiner Perkins, Greylock, Lightspeed, CRV, SV Angel, Upfront, First Round, Foundry Group, Mucker, Wavemaker, Greycroft, etc. • Accelerator leaders like Techstars co-founder Brad Feld and MuckerLab co-founders Erik Rannala and Will Hsu • Founders/CEOs from Aurora, About.me, HotelTonight, Dollar Shave Club, etc. • C-level executives such as the Chief Digital Officers of Warner Bros. and PBS David first got the entrepreneurial bug in high school as cofounder of Hotline Communications, and more recently, got the social entrepreneurial bug, raising funding from Elon Musk & Geocities founder David Bohnett's foundation, and event sponsorships from Uber, Lyft, & Google for Angelenos Against Gridlock.