Jacob Loewenstein
AR Product Strategy & Business Development.
Jacob Loewenstein helps drive AR/VR business development and product strategy at Samsung Next, Samsung’s software and services innovation arm. He received his MBA at MIT Sloan, where he co-founded VR/AR@MIT, which is dedicated to fostering VR/AR/MR innovation. Additionally, he was a founding Co-Organizer of the Reality, Virtually Hackathon at the MIT Media Lab, the biggest VR/AR hackathon. Prior to MIT, he worked in revenue strategy and business development at BuzzFeed and as a internal management consultant at Bridgewater Associates. He received his BA, Cum Laude, from Princeton University, where he studied the intersection of Media Theory and Public Policy.
Jacob is based in New York and has previously lectured on VR and AR at AWE, AR in Action at NYU/MIT, Illuminate Global at Harvard, and Hacking Arts at the MIT Media Lab. He has also lectured on digital media at Princeton. When not pontificating about AR, Jacob likes to sing Macy Gray at karaoke.
My Sessions
My Sessions
The Future of Business is Collaboration: Spotting Common Goals for Partnerships and Right Fit Vendors
Room XKBecky Haruyama
Joanna Popper
Laura Mingail
Armando Kirwin
Jacob Loewenstein
How do you as an entrepreneur recognize shared goals? As a creator how do you know the right companies to team up with? How do you as an executive find the right fit in vendors for your company? In this panel we’ll discuss how to ask the right questions, meet the right people, and navigate opportunity in the XR industry and beyond.
Office Hours – Investor Advice on Raising Money for XR Startups
Room XKCarter Rogers
Amy LaMeyer
Teppei Tsutsui
Abby Albright
Prashant Matta
Jacob Loewenstein
A panel of investors provide advice and answer questions on how to raise money and succeed as an XR startup. More details to be announced shortly.