Fireside Chat With Marc Lore, Serial Entrepreneur, Moonshot Seeker, NBA Owner

Join us for an interactive fireside chat with Marc Lore, visionary entrepreneur, investor, moonshot seeker and NBA owner. From selling Jet.com to Walmart for $3.3 billion to leading Walmart’s eCommerce, Marc will share insights on innovation, leadership, and his latest venture as CEO of Wonder Group. Don’t miss this chance to hear from a game-changing business leader!

About Marc Lore:

Marc Lore is Founder, Chairman, and CEO of Wonder Group, a company that’s reinventing the at-home dining experience. Wonder is led by a team of proven entrepreneurs, some of the world’s greatest chefs and culinary experts, talented innovators from every area of the business, and backed by top-tier venture capitalists.

Lore is also the newest NBA owner having purchased the Minnesota Timberwolves and Minnesota Lynx in Spring 2021 with his friend and business partner, Alex Rodriguez.

Lore is the lead and largest investor in Archer, an aerospace company building an all-electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft focused on improving mobility in cities. He is also Co-Founder and investor of Wizard, a company transforming e-commerce with conversational AI, and Mojo, a sports stock market, where fans can use their knowledge to invest in sports like never before.

Telosa is Lore’s legacy project – a city he is building from scratch to test a new model for society, called Equitism. The city will eventually house five million residents and plans to set the global standard for urban living and expand human potential by becoming a blueprint for future generations.

Prior to this, Lore started and sold four companies, most recently, Jet.com which was acquired by Walmart in 2016 for $3.3 billion. Until 2021, Lore served as the president and CEO of Walmart U.S. eCommerce. Lore was also the co-founder and CEO of Quidsi, the parent company of e-commerce websites Diapers.com, Soap.com, Wag.com, and more. The company was sold to Amazon in 2011 for $550 million.

He graduated from Bucknell University, receiving a Bachelor of Arts in business management and economics.

This event is part of the Entrepreneurial Celebrity Series, hosted by the Derby Entrepreneurship Center at Tufts University.