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Description
Jeri Ellsworth will share her journey as lifelong inventor, entrepreneur and maker. The journey from farm girl to holograms is not without its ups and downs. She will share how obstacles were overcome through courage, persistence, and a inquisitiveness about how the world works. Some stories feature Jeri's mentors who were critical to achieving success, whether it was to design the best toy that could delight millions of kids or how to become lead avionics engineer for a low earth orbit rocket. Jeri's current startup is the culmination of an 8-year quest – including a nearly $2million Kickstarter campaign – to bring holograms affordably into every home, called Tilt Five.
Authors' Bio
Jeri Ellsworth is an inventor, chip designer, and entrepreneur with over 20+ years experience designing and creating mass market consumer electronics.
She gained fame in 2004 for building a complete Commodore 64 system on a chip housed within a joystick, called C64 Direct-to-TV. It ran 30 video games from the early 1980s, and at peak, sold over 70,000 units in a single day via the QVC shopping channel.
In 2011, she was hired by Valve Software to build and run their R&D team and was a key contributor to the technology used in the popular HTC Vive virtual reality headset. While at Valve, she began work on the AR technology that would become the basis for the technology behind Tilt Five, where Jeri serves as CEO/Co-Founder.
She is a gamer at heart, holds 11 patents and owns 80 pinball machines.
