Emil Eifrem: Founder @Neo4j & Patrick Pichette: Partner @Inovia, Maintaining PMF | Slush 2024

What does NASA getting to Mars ahead of schedule have in common with investigative journalists cracking the Panama Papers leak? Both achievements were enabled by Neo4j. Emil Eifrem is the co-founder and CEO of Neo4j, the creator of graph databases category who brings close to 18 years of experience in starting and scaling the graph database and analytics leader we know today. For the first time ever, Emil joins Slush on stage to share his unique learnings on building generational companies by not just finding, but maintaining product-market-fit over many years. Emil is joined by Patrick Pichette, a seasoned financial and operational expert. As CFO of Google from 2008 to 2015, Patrick played a key role in driving the company’s growth strategy and supported the creation of the Alphabet structure. He was part of Google’s executive committee, overseeing the company’s extensive corporate M&A agenda, which included nearly 150 acquisitions. Patrick also sat on the board of Twitter between 2017 and 2022, served as Chair of the Board in 2020-2021 and co-led the company’s sale to Elon Musk for $44B in October 2022. --- Slush is the most founder-focused event on Earth, delivering actionable company-building advice while bringing together the who’s who in startups and tech. Slush will be back on Nov 19–20, 2025 in Helsinki, Finland. Stay in the loop: slush.org linkedin.com/company/slush instagram.com/slushhq x.com/slushhq