Building Communities such as The Big Quiet and Cyclones in NY w/ Jesse Israel

Jesse is a community builder with a passion for creating experiences and businesses around human connection. According to the Wall Street Journal, Jesse is “rebranding meditation for Millennials” through communities such as Medi Club and the mass meditation series The Big Quiet. Jesse is a co-founder of Cantora – a record label turned technology venture studio responsible for signing bands like MGMT and for building businesses with talent as diverse as the The Wu Tang Clan’s GZA and Frank Sinatra Enterprises. Jesse is the founder of the social bicycling movement the Cyclones, and the Cyclones Bike Share program – a crowd-powered initiative that has implemented bike share programs for students and women throughout rural areas of Tanzania.

About NY Salon:
“TED, with friends. And booze.”

Biweekly series of casual, interactive, and intellectually stimulating discussions led by moderator and speaker(s). Each week’s topic will be different and meant to be thought provoking and engaging.

Past Topics: http://www.nycsalon.org/news/
Our hope is that such an organization can help make the city a smaller place, one discussion, one cup of tea and one debate at a time.