Conference Bio
Erik Eliason is an entrepreneur and operator building and scaling B2B and B2C products. He has founded three companies, two of which have successfully exited. Currently he is a Director at Square, building the Payments and Business Banking products. Previously, Erik was Founder and CEO at Storefront, an online marketplace for renting short-term retail space, used by brands including L’Oréal, Hermes, Nike, and Kanye West.
Erik has been a guest speaker on CNBC Power Lunch, Bloomberg TV, FOX Business, New York Ideas Festival and National Public Radio. He was named to Forbes 30 under 30 and featured in over 30 leading media outlets including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The New Yorker, CNN, and INC.
Past Speaking
NY Ideas Festival
Other Press & Speaking
Fox Business: The Airbnb for Retail
Bloomberg: An Airbnb for Retailers
NPR, All Things Considered
Retail Ascendant, Palo Alto
TechCrunch: Storefront Launches RetailGrade, A Scoring Tool For Pop-Up Shops
The Pitch Deck, San Francisco
Pop Up Summit, London
Launch, New York
New York Ideas, Aspen Institute, New York
CNBC Power Lunch, New York
Fortune on Pop-up Permanence, San Francisco
Bloomberg West, San Francisco
The New Yorker, New York
TechCrunch, San Francisco
Chicago Tribune, Chicago
Forbes Interview, New York
Wall Street Journal, New York
On Demand Retail, New York
Varney FOX Business, San Francisco
Carlson School, Startup Life: Insights from Founders and CEOs, San Francisco
ICSC Asset Management Conference, Washington, DC
RealTech SF 2013, San Francisco
New York Times, New York
CRE Tech Intersect, New York
MAPIC, Cannes
500 Startups Interview, San Francisco
Knowledge@Wharton, San Francisco
Realogy FWD Innovation Summit, New York
PandoDaily, San Francisco
CRE Tech Intersect, San Francisco
INC, San Francisco
ICSC Shopping Centers of Today, New York
Collaborative Consumption, San Francisco
ADWEEK, New York
ICSC SPREE Retail Summit, Las Vegas
WWD, New York
Future of Retail Conference with PSFK