Richard Branson Leads Top Entrepreneurs At Founders’ Festival 2016

Richard Branson Leads Top Entrepreneurs At Founders’ Festival 2016

The organizers of “The Founders’ Festival”, Bits and Pretzels have announced September 25 -27 as the date for its annual conference for 2016. From a breakfast meeting to a world conference. Speaking to Cointelegraph, Co-organizer of the event Christoph Hering says that what has now become a major startup event which brings together the world’s top entrepreneurs actually began as a breakfast meeting for the founders of the Munich startup ecosystem. Bits & Pretzels has become a major startup event in Europe hosted by Andreas Bruckschlögl, Bernd Storm van’s Gravesande and Felix Haas.....


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