Dan Shapiro
Dan Shapiro is the CEO and cofounder of Glowforge, the iconic 3D laser
printer. He is also the author of Hot Seat: The Startup CEO Guidebook,
published by O'Reilly. Before founding Glowforge, Dan launched the
bestselling boardgame in Kickstarter history, Robot Turtles, a game
that teaches programming fundamentals to preschoolers. Before his
detour as a boardgame designer, Dan served as CEO of Google
Comparison, Inc, a Google subsidiary. Shapiro landed at Google when
they bought his previous company, comparison shopping website
Sparkbuy. He has been awarded a dozen US patents, and received his
B.S. in Engineering from Harvey Mudd College.
