Jacob DeHart is a Chicago based entrepreneur and is the Technical Director of skinnyCorp LLC. Over the past 7 years DeHart and partner Jake Nickell have created community based websites most notably Threadless, Naked & Angry and ExtraTasty. Jacob has recently been honored as one of Chicago's 40 under 40 and in the past has taught at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and lectured at MIT, Parsons, UCLA, Columbia College, and Depaul University.
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March 1, 2007

Speakers for the entrepreneurship panel will represent several stages of business development. Jacob DeHart, recently honored in Crain’s Chicago Business’ “40 Under 40” List, will discuss his experiences with Threadless.com and skinnyCorp LLC, both of which are young businesses;

October 10, 2006
September 6, 2006

Interviewed by Erica Hill, headline news anchor for Anderson Cooper 360

April 20, 2006

Spoke at Customer Made conference in Copenhagen Denmark

October 10, 2005
MIT Sloan School of Management Round Table

Participated in round table discussion at MIT’s Sloan School of Management. Amont companies such as General Mills, Pitney Bowes, Clorox, and Google — and a contingent of innovation researchers from MIT’s Sloan School of Management and other business schools. The meeting had been organized by Eric von Hippel, an MIT bigwig and the foremost authority on something called user innovation.