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Co-founder of Andreessen Horowitz and veteran Silicon Valley entrepreneur and investor.

Co-founder and CEO of NVIDIA, the leading GPU and AI chip manufacturer.

Max Freeman is the SVP of Sales at Ramp, a corporate spend management fintech company. He joined Ramp in March 2020 as its first sales hire, starting as a sales development representative after previously working as an account executive at Namely and as a financial analyst at UBS. He has since built and leads Ramp's sales organization of over 300 people, helping scale the company to over $1.7 billion in annualized revenue. He is best known for his unconventional go-to-market recruiting philosophy, which targets sellers who have driven significant revenue growth despite weak product conditions, and for his hands-on approach to customer success at Ramp.

CEO of Tesla/SpaceX/xAI and plaintiff suing Altman over OpenAI's for-profit conversion.

Founder and host of the 20VC podcast and venture fund.

Jim Lanzone is the Chief Executive Officer of Yahoo Inc., a position he has held since September 2021 when the company was acquired by Apollo Global Management. He is a serial turnaround specialist who previously served as CEO of Tinder, President and CEO of CBS Interactive, and CEO of Ask Jeeves. At Yahoo, he is leading a multi-phase turnaround of the iconic internet brand, overseeing major product overhauls across Yahoo Finance, Yahoo Sports, and Yahoo Mail, and has launched the AI-powered Scout answer engine in partnership with Anthropic.

CEO of Perplexity, the AI-powered search company.

Anthropic CEO who publicly cautioned against aggressive compute scaling even as Anthropic expanded its Amazon partnership.

Co-founder and CEO of Meta, formerly Facebook.

Stanford neuroscientist and podcast host discussing neurotechnology frontier

CEO of OpenAI, central figure in Musk v. Altman trial with IPO trajectory at stake.

Mike Cannon-Brookes is an Australian billionaire businessman who co-founded and serves as the chief executive officer of Atlassian, a collaboration software company. He co-founded Atlassian with Scott Farquhar in 2002, and the company is known for products such as Jira. He is also a technology investor and climate advocate, having pledged to donate and invest $1.5 billion in climate projects by 2030 through his private investment vehicle Grok Ventures.

Entrepreneur and investor, co-host of My First Million podcast.

45th and 47th President of the United States, Republican.

Founder of SaaStr, prominent SaaS investor and operator; cited as a Replit power user building lean, AI-driven businesses.

Jean-Denis Greze is the co-founder and CEO of Town, a San Francisco-based startup building personalized AI assistants that work across everyday workplace tools such as email, calendars, messaging platforms, and documents. He previously served as Chief Technology Officer at Plaid and held engineering leadership roles at Dropbox. Town raised a $55 million Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz in June 2026.

Jeffrey Harmon is the co-founder and Chief Content Officer of Angel Studios, a Provo, Utah-based film and television distribution studio known for crowdfunded and faith-oriented titles such as The Chosen, Sound of Freedom, and Dry Bar Comedy. He is also a co-founder of the Harmon Brothers advertising agency and previously co-founded Orabrush, where his early YouTube marketing campaigns helped pioneer viral video advertising. He is best known for developing unconventional, community-driven distribution models, including Angel's Pay It Forward ticketing model that helped Sound of Freedom gross over $250 million worldwide.

Patrick Hsu is a bioengineer and entrepreneur who co-founded the Arc Institute and serves as an assistant professor of pathology at Stanford University. His research operates at the intersection of biology and machine learning, with contributions to CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing, programmable DNA recombinases, and the Evo series of genome foundation models. He holds a PhD from Harvard University, where he worked under Feng Zhang at the Broad Institute, and has co-founded multiple biotechnology companies including Stylus Medicine and Terrain Biosciences. He serves on the scientific advisory board of Amgen and the board of directors of Notion.

Patrick Paul Gelsinger is an American business executive and engineer who served as CEO of Intel from February 2021 to December 2024. He first joined Intel in 1979 at age 18, eventually becoming the company's first chief technology officer and the lead architect of the i486 microprocessor. After departing for leadership roles at EMC and VMware, he returned to Intel to lead a turnaround focused on revitalizing domestic semiconductor manufacturing. As of March 2025, he serves as executive chair and head of technology at Gloo and as a general partner at the venture capital firm Playground Global.

Joe Gebbia is an American designer and entrepreneur who co-founded Airbnb. He was appointed by President Donald Trump as the Chief Design Officer of the United States, leading the National Design Studio within the White House to modernize federal websites and government design. He previously joined the Department of Government Efficiency in 2025 to work on simplifying the federal retirement process. He also serves on the boards of Airbnb and Tesla and founded Samara, an accessory dwelling unit startup.

Partner at Magid and panelist at the Slow Takeoff conference.

Co-founder and President of Stripe, known for product instincts and long-term thinking.

Author and operator-investor writing the VC Corner newsletter, synthesizing growth frameworks for founders.

CEO and Co-Founder of Replit, former Facebook developer tools engineer, mission-driven founder focused on democratizing software creation.

Podcast participant on the Sourcery episode covering the Skydio HQ Tour alongside CEO Adam Bry.

Jad Naous is the founder and CEO of Grepr, a San Francisco-based observability cost-optimization company backed by Andreessen Horowitz. He is a systems engineer and observability industry veteran who previously led architecture at AppDynamics and served as chief product officer at Imply before founding Grepr in 2023. He is best known for building infrastructure that reduces telemetry costs by approximately 90 percent while preserving troubleshooting visibility, and for his work exploring how AI can move beyond code generation into operating and debugging production systems.

Founder and primary author of Stratechery technology analysis newsletter and podcast.

Alex Rampell is a general partner at Andreessen Horowitz, where he leads the firm's Apps practice and focuses on investments in financial services and fintech. He is best known as the co-founder and former CEO of TrialPay, a transactional advertising and payments company acquired by Visa in 2015, and as a co-founder of Affirm alongside Max Levchin. Prior to joining a16z in 2015, he also co-founded several other companies including FraudEliminator, Point, TXN, and Yub.

Partner at Slow Ventures focused on AI's second-order effects, healthcare, network effects, and fintech.

Founder of Scale AI, sold to Meta for $14.3B; now Meta's Chief AI Officer and head of Meta Superintelligence Labs.

Will O'Brien is the co-founder of Ulysses, a San Francisco-based startup building autonomous surface and subsea robots for maritime operations and ecosystem restoration. A native of Cork, Ireland, he leads the company's commercial strategy and oversees a fleet of low-cost autonomous underwater vehicles used in projects ranging from seagrass restoration to commercial and defense applications. He is best known for scaling Ulysses from a garage-built prototype into a revenue-generating robotics company backed by venture capital investors including Lowercarbon Capital and ReGen Ventures.

Co-founder of Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), prominent venture capitalist and technology investor.

Entrepreneur and co-host of My First Million podcast, formerly founder of The Hustle.

Tech investor and White House AI adviser warning that Anthropic could build an insurmountable enterprise revenue lead over OpenAI.

CEO of Reflection AI, announced the DOE Genesis Mission partnership and advocates for open-weight models in government.

Elizabeth Holmes is the founder and former CEO of Theranos, a blood-testing startup she established in 2003 after dropping out of Stanford University. She is currently incarcerated at Federal Prison Camp Bryan in Texas, serving an approximately eleven-year sentence after being convicted in 2022 on four counts of wire fraud and conspiracy for defrauding investors out of hundreds of millions of dollars through false claims about Theranos technology. She is best known for claiming Theranos could perform comprehensive medical tests using only a few drops of blood, a claim that was later revealed to be false.

CEO of Figma, the collaborative design software company; participant in Founders Fund Mafia show.

Product growth expert and host of Lenny's Podcast, a top newsletter and podcast for product managers and founders.

Seema Amble is a partner at Andreessen Horowitz, where she focuses on early-stage SaaS and B2B fintech investments globally. She joined the firm in 2019 after over a decade of investing in software and fintech, including roles at Goldman Sachs Investment Partners, LeapFrog Investments, and Altamont Capital Partners. She holds a BA in Economics and a JD/MBA from Harvard University, where she was a Baker Scholar.

Venture capitalist, angel investor, and co-host of the All In podcast.

Founder of Vanta, a security compliance automation company, who judged the YC hackathon where Kalshi first pitched.

CEO of Microsoft who circulated the Toolformer paper company-wide as a landmark AI moment.

Matt Garman is the CEO of Amazon Web Services (AWS), a position he has held since June 2024. He joined Amazon as an intern in 2005 and became a full-time employee in 2006, serving as AWS's first product manager and helping build and launch core services such as Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS). Prior to becoming CEO, he held senior leadership roles including Senior Vice President of AWS Sales, Marketing, and Global Services, and Vice President of AWS Compute Services. He holds BS and MS degrees in Industrial Engineering from Stanford University and an MBA from Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management.

Venky Ganesan is a partner at Menlo Ventures, where he focuses on investments in AI-native software, cybersecurity, and AI infrastructure. He currently serves on the boards of companies including Abnormal AI, Aurascape, BitSight, ConverzAI, Obsidian, Sonrai Security, and Unravel Data. He previously led investments in and served on the boards of Aisera, Dedrone, Poshmark, Rover, and StackRox, and was recognized on the Forbes Midas List from 2013 to 2015. Prior to joining Menlo Ventures in 2013, he was a managing partner at Globespan Capital Partners and a co-founder of Trigo Technologies, which was acquired by IBM.

钱程 is the CEO of Ecovacs Robotics (科沃斯), a Chinese service robotics company founded by his father 钱东奇 in 1998. Born in 1990, he joined the company in 2012 after graduating from university in Canada, working first in e-commerce and then leading overseas market expansion before becoming CEO in 2019 at age 29. He is best known for steering Ecovacs through its globalization and multi-category strategy, expanding the brand into more than 150 countries and regions with products including floor-cleaning, window-cleaning, and lawn-mowing robots.

Josh Gao is the co-founder and CEO of Mecka, a data infrastructure and analytics company that creates, processes, and licenses training data for robotics and physical AI models. He previously co-founded a payments technology startup for restaurants with his Mecka co-founder Mogen Cheng, which they sold in 2023. Gao studied at Western University, where he earned a Bachelor's degree in Philosophy and an Honours Business Administration from Ivey Business School, and was a 2019 Cansbridge Fellow. He is based in Canada and leads Mecka, which has raised $60 million in total funding from investors including Framework Ventures, Menlo Ventures, SV Angel, and Sequoia Capital.

Co-founder and CEO of Airbnb, cited for his management principle of managing work rather than people.

Researcher at Our World in Data focused on environmental and public health data.

Entrepreneur, investor, founder of The Production Board, and co-host of the All In podcast.

Lindon Gao is the CEO and co-founder of Dyna Robotics, a robotics company based in Redwood City, California, that builds AI-powered robotic systems for real-world tasks. He previously co-founded Caper AI, a smart-cart startup acquired by Instacart for $350 million in 2021. He co-founded Dyna Robotics with York Yang and Jason Ma, a former Google DeepMind researcher, and the company has raised funding from investors including First Round Capital and CRV. He is best known for his work in AI-powered hardware, first in retail checkout technology and now in physical AI for robotic manipulation.

Venture capitalist, CEO of Social Capital, and co-host of the All In podcast.

Kevin Mandia is the founder and CEO of Armadin, a cybersecurity startup that uses AI agents to simulate cyberattacks, and a co-founder and general partner at the venture capital firm Ballistic Ventures. He is best known as the founder of Mandiant, the cybersecurity firm acquired by Google for $5.4 billion in 2022, and for his leadership during the 2020 SolarWinds supply chain attack. He was elected to Amazon's Board of Directors in September 2025 and previously served as CEO of FireEye.

Vladimir Keil is the co-founder and CEO of Lio (formerly askLio), a company building an AI multi-agent system for enterprise procurement. Headquartered in Munich with operations in the United States, Lio develops autonomous AI agents that handle procurement tasks such as vendor research, price comparison, contract negotiation, and purchase execution for Fortune 500 and Global 2000 companies. Keil, who is Kazakhstan-born and previously founded and sold two other startups, established Lio in 2023 and has raised funding from investors including Y Combinator and Andreessen Horowitz.

Karan Singhal leads the Health AI and AGI Benefits teams at OpenAI, where he focuses on developing large language models for healthcare applications and ensuring AI systems safely improve human health. He joined OpenAI in April 2024 after serving as a Staff Research Scientist at Google, where he co-led the development of Med-PaLM and Med-PaLM 2, medical-domain language models published in Nature and deployed through Google Cloud. He holds BS and MS degrees in Computer Science from Stanford University, where he also co-founded and instructed the university's first AI ethics course. He was named to the TIME100 Health list in 2026 for his work on ChatGPT Health.

Nathan Fielder is a Canadian comedian, writer, director, and producer known for works that blur the line between reality and fiction. He co-created and starred in the Comedy Central series Nathan for You and the HBO docu-comedy The Rehearsal. He is currently directing the documentary film You Can See Everything about Elizabeth Holmes, co-directed with Lance Oppenheim and produced by A24.

Co-founder of Y Combinator, essayist, and early-stage startup investor.

Lawrence Gene David is an American comedian, writer, actor, and television producer best known for co-creating the NBC sitcom Seinfeld with Jerry Seinfeld and for creating, writing, and starring in the HBO series Curb Your Enthusiasm. He began his career as a stand-up comedian before transitioning to television, writing and performing on ABC's Fridays and briefly writing for Saturday Night Live, where he met Julia Louis-Dreyfus. He served as head writer and executive producer on Seinfeld for its first seven seasons, winning Primetime Emmy Awards in 1993 for Outstanding Comedy Series and Outstanding Individual Achievement in Writing in a Comedy Series. Curb Your Enthusiasm, in which he stars as a semi-fictionalized version of himself, ran on HBO from 2000 to 2024 and earned him numerous additional Emmy nominations.

Veteran venture capitalist and former GP at Benchmark Capital, author of Running Down a Dream.

Founder of Amazon and Project Prometheus, a physical AI company seeking a $10B raise at a $38B valuation.

Co-host and contributor at the Stratechery network, author of Sharp Text and Sharp China analyses on Beijing's AI policy.

Founder and CEO of Higgsfield, an AI video generation startup.

Early-stage investor known as an early backer of Twitter, Uber, and Instagram; former venture capitalist at Lowercase Capital.

Rory O'Driscoll is a co-founder and General Partner at Scale Venture Partners, a venture capital firm focused on early-stage enterprise software companies. He has more than 30 years of VC experience and is best known for early investments in SaaS pioneers such as Bill.com, Box, and DocuSign, as well as for recognizing the cloud and AI transitions in enterprise software. He has appeared on the Forbes Midas List and is a prominent voice on enterprise software valuations and the shift from SaaS to AI-enabled business applications.

Founder and CEO of Altimeter Capital, a technology-focused investment firm.

Author of the Data Driven VC newsletter and GP at Earlybird Venture Capital.

Co-founder and CEO of Stripe, known for articulating infrastructure-level thinking and incubation logic.

Toto Wolff is an Austrian motorsport executive, investor, and former racing driver who serves as Team Principal, CEO, and co-owner of the Mercedes-AMG PETRONAS Formula One Team. He acquired a 30% stake in the team in 2013 and, under his leadership, Mercedes won eight consecutive Constructors' Championships from 2014 to 2021. He previously invested in Williams F1 and founded the technology-focused investment firms Marchfifteen and Marchsixteen. He holds an equal 33% ownership stake alongside Mercedes-Benz Group and INEOS following a 2020 restructuring.

Host/interviewer on the Training Data podcast.

CEO of Palo Alto Networks, known for articulating the 'profit pools' framework for cybersecurity TAM analysis.

Jerry Seinfeld is an American stand-up comedian, actor, writer, and producer best known for co-creating and starring in the NBC sitcom Seinfeld, which aired from 1989 to 1998 and became one of the most acclaimed sitcoms in television history. He is also the creator and host of the web series Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee and has released multiple Netflix comedy specials. He continues to perform stand-up comedy nationally and internationally, including regular headlining shows at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas. He has authored several best-selling books including Is This Anything? and Seinlanguage.

Legendary long-term value investor and chairman of Berkshire Hathaway.

Co-founder and former CEO of Apple, widely credited with revolutionizing personal computing, music, and mobile technology.

Emmanuel Ameisen is a research engineer at Anthropic, where he works on the interpretability team studying how large language models like Claude function internally. He is the lead author of the paper "Circuit Tracing: Revealing Computational Graphs in Language Models" and has contributed to training Claude 2 and Claude 3 models with a focus on coding, SQL, and tool use capabilities. Prior to joining Anthropic, he was a Staff Machine Learning Engineer at Stripe, authored the O'Reilly book "Building Machine Learning Powered Applications," and led over 50 applied AI projects as Head of AI at Insight Data Science.

Legendary venture capitalist and founder of Khosla Ventures forecasting AI-driven end of traditional jobs.

Jay Clayton is an American attorney who serves as the 9th Director of National Intelligence, having been confirmed by the Senate in July 2026. He previously served as the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York from April 2025 to July 2026 and as the Chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission from 2017 to 2020. He is best known for his work in financial regulation at the SEC and for recently assuming leadership of the U.S. intelligence community, where he has identified artificial intelligence and super intelligence as national security concerns.

Elon Musk is a businessman and the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX. He founded the artificial intelligence company xAI in July 2023 to develop generative AI programs competing with offerings like OpenAI's ChatGPT. SpaceX acquired xAI in early 2026, combining Musk's space exploration and AI ventures into a single company. He is best known for his leadership of Tesla, SpaceX, and his acquisition and rebranding of Twitter as X.

Ruben Dominguez is an angel investor, a16z scout, and the writer behind The VC Corner, a Substack newsletter with over 130,000 subscribers covering venture capital, startup fundraising, and growth strategies. He is known for providing founders with investor databases, financial models, and AI-driven go-to-market toolkits, including a free AI Creator Kit and GTM resources built into Notion workspaces. He also publishes a LinkedIn newsletter of the same name focused on actionable insights for startups and entrepreneurship.

Nick Bostrom is a Swedish-born philosopher and the founder and principal researcher at the nonprofit Macrostrategy Research Initiative. He previously served as a professor at Oxford University and was the founding director of the Future of Humanity Institute from 2005 until its closure in 2024. He is best known for his work on existential risk, the simulation argument, and the implications of superintelligence, including his 2014 book Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies.

CEO of Palantir Technologies, known for enterprise AI and data analytics.

Ali Yahya is a general partner at Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) where he invests in crypto and web3. He joined the firm as a partner in 2017 and was promoted to general partner in April 2021. Prior to a16z, he was a software engineer and researcher at Google X working on the Everyday Robot project and at Google Brain as a core contributor to TensorFlow. He holds bachelor's and master's degrees in computer science from Stanford University, where he focused on distributed systems, machine learning, and computer security.

Jai Bardhan is a researcher at the Czech Institute of Informatics, Robotics and Cybernetics (CIIRC) at the Czech Technical University in Prague, where he works on robot world models with Josef Sivic and Vladimir Petrik. He is the lead author of DepthWorld, a Stable Video Diffusion-based 3D world model for robot manipulation, and PersistWorld, which stabilizes multi-step world model rollouts via reinforcement learning, both published at ECCV 2026. He previously served as a predoctoral research fellow at TCS Research in the Deep Learning and AI Lab and completed his master's at IIIT Hyderabad, where he received the Best Thesis Award and Gold Medalist Award for the CND Department.

Henry Yin is a founding partner of MoE Capital, an early-stage venture fund focused on agentic infrastructure and AI for science that launched in 2026. He is also the co-founder of AGI House, a prominent Silicon Valley AI community and startup hub, and the co-founder and CTO of Merico, an engineering intelligence platform. He created Apache DevLake, an open-source dev data platform, and previously conducted research at UC Berkeley before leaving his PhD program. He holds a BS in computer science from Tsinghua University.

Entrepreneur; CEO of Tesla, SpaceX, and other ventures

Aaron Harris is a co-founder of Magid and Company, where he advises founders on scaling startups and navigating fundraising with a focus on Series A and Series B rounds. He was previously a partner at Y Combinator for seven and a half years, during which he funded over 1,000 companies and built YC's Series A Program, helping founders raise over $3 billion. He is also known for co-authoring the PostRound newsletter and hosting the podcast Asking VCs for Money.

CMO and Co-founder at Parsers VC, venture capital firm

Host of the Invest Like the Best podcast and investor at O'Shaughnessy Asset Management.

Greg Brockman is a co-founder and President of OpenAI, previously the first CTO of Stripe.

Neil Patel is a digital marketer and co-founder of NP Digital, a global digital marketing agency. He is best known for his work in SEO and content marketing, his SEO tool Ubersuggest, and his blog at NeilPatel.com. He co-hosts the Marketing School podcast with Eric Siu and has helped companies like Amazon, NBC, and GM grow their revenue through marketing.

Partner at a16z, podcast host and commentator on enterprise AI adoption.

Mark Robert Michael Wahlberg is an American actor, producer, and entrepreneur who currently serves as Chief Brand Officer and director of F45 Training Holdings Inc. He is best known for a decades-long Hollywood acting career spanning films such as Boogie Nights, The Departed, and The Fighter, as well as executive-producing HBO series including Entourage and Boardwalk Empire. Beyond entertainment, he co-founded businesses including the Wahlburgers restaurant chain, Performance Inspired Nutrition, and Municipal apparel, and has built a growing portfolio of angel investments with an increasing focus on healthcare and wellness startups.

Co-founder of Union Square Ventures and previously co-founder of Flatiron Partners; architect of USV's thesis and fund design.

Founder and author of Asianometry, covering semiconductor and hardware supply chain topics.

Independent podcast host who has become the go-to media platform for top AI researchers and executives.

Abdulrahman Alfozan is a software engineer who was employed as a member of the product team at OpenAI from July 2025 until his termination and arrest in October 2025. He is best known for being accused by federal prosecutors of concealing a sophisticated, encrypted audio recording device in an executive conference room at OpenAI's San Francisco headquarters to secretly record highly confidential discussions. Prior to joining OpenAI, he worked as a founding engineer at the logistics company Nash, spent approximately five years as a senior systems engineer at Meta, and served as a venture partner at the Saudi venture capital firm RAED Ventures. He holds a master's degree in data science from UC Berkeley and attended MIT.

Co-founder of Microsoft and philanthropist, known for early programming specialization as a child.

Co-founder and CEO of Salesforce, known for pioneering SaaS CRM and navigating multiple technology transitions.

Nworah Ayogu is a Partner at Thrive Capital, where he leads healthcare investing. He is a board-certified internist and Harvard Medical School graduate who previously served as General Manager of Amazon Clinic and the first Chief Medical Officer of Amazon Pharmacy, and was part of the founding team of Cityblock Health. He is best known for investing in and advising healthcare and AI companies at the intersection of medicine and technology.

Fred Wilson is an American venture capitalist and the co-founder and partner of Union Square Ventures (USV), a New York City-based venture capital firm. He has been in the venture capital industry since 1987, previously co-founding Flatiron Partners in 1996. He is best known for his investments in companies such as Twitter, Tumblr, Etsy, MongoDB, and Coinbase, as well as for his widely read daily blog AVC, which he has maintained since 2003 covering venture capital, entrepreneurship, and technology.

Co-founder of Harvey who leads technical architecture including the Spectre agent infrastructure.