About
Gary Chou is the founder of Orbital.
He's currently focused on ways to catalyze innovation in the social sector by working with founders, funders and leaders to create systems for shared experiential learning.
Prior to Orbital, Gary worked in venture capital at Union Square Ventures, and co-taught Entrepreneurial Design at School of Visual Arts MFA in Interaction Design.
Gary has also been a supporter of creators as executive producer of multiple award-winning indie films and a backer over 150 Kickstarter projects.
Email Gary or follow him on LinkedIn.
Talks
- Infrastructure and Interdependence / Notes
- Year 5
- hackNY 2016: Summer Talk
- Design Driven: Leveraging Networks to Bring Ideas to Life / Notes
- Postlight: On Orbital and Entrepreneurial Design
- Venture for America: 2014 Boot Camp
- Austin Center for Design 2013: A Realignment with Gary Chou / Notes
- Designers + Geeks: Designing for Uncertainty / Notes
News
- Tickets Podcast: Gary Chou and Christina Xu on entrepreneurship education and harnessing the power of networks
- People & Company: Gary Chou helps students rise to the challenge.
- Reappropriate: Meeting People Where They Are: The Seed Crystal of the Letters for Black Lives Project
- VFA: On Side Projects, Developing An Opportunistic Lens, And What To Do About Burnout
- PSFK: Orbital Offers Space for Independent Creators to Explore Unknown
- I Had Ten Dollars: Gary Chou - Orbital
- The New Disruptors: T Minus Zero with Gary Chou
- Khoi Vinh: Interview with Gary Chou of New York's Orbital