Keynote: Scott Adams, creator of Dilbert

Scott Adams (Berkeley-Haas MBA 1986), frustrated with the inanities of corporate America and its idiot bosses, created the comic strip “Dilbert” to lampoon all he considered repugnant-yet-funny in the workplace of cubicles. His title character Dilbert, the bespectacled MIT graduate with no mouth and flip-up tie, is part alter ego, part “every man.” Dilbert was embraced by the comic-strip-reading public in 1989, and has now appeared in over 2,000 newspapers in 50-plus countries translated in 19 languages, and it even had its own TV series in the late ’90s. Scott received a BA in Economics at Hartwick College and his MBA from Berkeley Haas.
This session is part of the 2015 Finals of LAUNCH: The UC Berkeley Startup Competition was held at the Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley on Thursday, April 30, 2015. For more info please see: http://launch.berkeley.edu/. Sponsored by the Lester Center for Entrepreneurship: http://entrepreneurship.berkeley.edu/