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MEET
GRACE GONG
FOUNDER, CEO, & HOST
of Smart Venture Podcast & Venture with Grace
Grace Gong is the founder of Smart Venture Media and the host of two well-known VC podcasts: Smart Venture Podcast (SVPpro.com) and Venture with Grace, a daily show.
Grace is an angel investor in the AI sector, a super angel & venture scout for Alumni Ventures, Advisor at Berkeley SkyDeck.
HIGHLIGHTS
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Snowflake Summit
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VCs, Founders, and Tech Leaders
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Daily Podcast & LinkedIn Live
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Interviews with top-tier investors, unicorn founders, and C-suite leaders. Real conversations, zero fluff.
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Exclusive Executive Dinners
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Intimate gatherings for VCs, founders, and executives to build authentic relationships, not transactional networks.
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Smart AI 100 & Annual Summit
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Curated list of the top 0.43% of AI companies, plus an annual conference connecting them with leading investors.
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Speaking & Advisory
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Keynotes at VC conferences, AI summits, and private events. Strategic advisory for startups navigating fundraising and growth.
GRACE GONG
Speaking Appearances
Signal vs. Noise
AI-tonomy Summit: Models and Agents
Snowflake Dev Day 2026
SF Pitch Night
VC Reverse Pitch Night
Meet the VC
Slack Dev Day
iFly.vc Consumer Summit
Google Cloud Next After Hours
Salesforce TDX 2026
HumanX 2026
Memory Genesis Competition 2026
Founder x Creator Night
TreeHacks
Live Podcast
DeckBird.ai SF Launch Party
AI for Good Summit
2026 AI and Sustainability Global Awards
Scoop AI Hackathon
SF Pitch Night
ReasonOS AI Rationale
AI Investment Summit 2025
Closed Door Forum: AI First
Dreamforce 2025
Hero City Summit
Smart AI Leadership Summit
VC/LP Summit
iFly.vc Consumer Summit 2025
Seattle Startup Summit 2025
AI in Production Mini Conference
Femigrants Annual Forum 2025
Behind the scenes of Creator Conversations
NFT.NYC 2022
Smart AI Leadership Summit
Smart 100 AI
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Actionable Insights
GRACE GONG
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Bryan Johnson
CEO at Kernel
Arvind Jain
CEO at Glean
Matt McIlwain
Managing Director at Madrona Venture Group
Mustafa Suleyman
CEO at Microsoft AI
Sam Yagan
Founder at OkCupid
David Glick
SVP at Walmart
Bob Muglia
ex - CEO at Snowflake
Megh Gautam
Chief Product Officer at Crunchbase
Norman Winarsky
Founder of Apple Siri
Jihong Kim
Managing Director at Samsung Ventures America
Drew Houston
CEO at Dropbox
Sokwoo Rhee
EVP at LG Electronics
Michael Truell
CEO at Cursor (Anysphere)
Howie Liu
CEO at Airtable
Alex Pall
Founder @ The Chainsmokers & Mantis VC
Guillermo Rauch
CEO at Vercel
Alex Honnold
Famous rock climber, Oscar-winning film "Free Solo"
Jeff Wang
CEO at Windsurf
Sridhar Ramaswamy
CEO at Snowflake
Anton Osika
Co-Founder at Lovable
Bret Taylor
Co-Founder at Sierra, Chairman of the Board of OpenAI
Winston Weinberg
CEO & Co-Founder at Harvey
Mati Staniszewski
Co-Founder at ElevenLabs
Thomas Wolf
Co-Founder at Hugging Face
Ashwin Sreenivas
President / Co-Founder at Decagon
Christina Cacioppo
Co-Founder and CEO at Vanta
Srinivas Narayanan
CTO of B2B Applications, OpenAI
Vinod Khosla
Founder of Khosla Ventures
Henry Ward
CEO at Carta
Andy Konwinski
Co-founder of Laude, Databricks, and Perplexity
Amjad Masad
Founder at Replit
Amit Zavery
President, CPO, and COO, ServiceNow
May Habib
CEO of Writer
Jyoti Bansal
CEO and Co-Founder at Harness, Traceable
Xuedong D. Huang
CTO at Zoom
Stefan Weitz
CEO at HumanX
Matt Madrigal
CTO at Pinterest
Mike Knoop
Co-Founder at Zapier
Justin Osofsky
Head of Online Sales, Operations and Partnerships at Meta, Former COO of Instagram
Clem Delangue
Co-Founder & CEO of Hugging Face
Everette Taylor
CEO of Kickstarter
Gary Vaynerchuk
CEO of VaynerMedia
Quentin Tarantino
American film director
3Blue1Brown
Grant Sanderson 3.83M on YouTube
Tim Chang
Partner at Mayfield
(Mayfield's portfolio includes Lyft, SolarCity, Poshmark)
Jim Boettcher
Co-Founder AT Focus Ventures (portfolio including Apigee, P.A. Semi, Pure Digital Technologies)
Justin Kan
Co-Founder of Twitch
Matt Cohler + Mitch Lasky
Partners @ Benchmark
Dong-su Kim
CEO of LG Technology Ventures
Gary Rieschel
Founder at Qiming Venture Partners
(Qiming’s portfolio companies including Xiaomi小米, Zhihu知乎, bilibili)
Michael Moritz
Partner at Sequoia
Kai-Fu Lee
Influencial Chinese Venture Capitalist
Nicholas Thompson
Editor in Chief WIRED Magazine
David Cowan
Bessemer Venture Partners
(Portfolio including LinkedIn, Smule, Twitch)
Feifei Li
Co-Director of the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence
Robert Nelsen
Co-founder atARCH Venture Partners
(Portfolio including GRAIL, Juno Therapeutics, Denali Therapeutics)
Jim Robinson
Co-Founder AT RRE ventures
RRE Ventures' (portfolio: Buzzfeed, Markerbot, Venmo)
Charles Moldow
Foundation Capital
(Lending Club, Lending Home, AdRoll)
Rich Levandov
Avalon Ventures
(Portfolio including Zynga, Phoenix Technologies, Tacoda)
Dick Kramlich
Co-Founder at NEA (Portfolio including Apple, Powerpoint, Juniper Networks)
Mitch Lasky
Benchmark (Portfolio including Snapchat, Riot Games, Discord)
Bing Gordon
KPCB (Portfolio including Audible, Katango, Ngmoco)
Ross Jaffe
MD & Co Founder at Versant Ventures (Portfolio including Insulet, Acclarent, St. Francis Medical Technology)
Promod Haque
NVP (Portfolio including Apigee, FireEye, Skybox Imaging)
Sandy Miller
IVP (Portfolio including Zynga, Supercell)
Mike Maples, Jr.
Co Founder at Floodgate
(Portfolio including Twitter, Twitch.tv, Weebly)
Asheem Chandna
Partner at Greylock (Portfolio including Rubrik, AppDynamics, Palo Alto Networks)
Ann Miura-Ko
Co-founder at Floodgate (Portfolio including Lyft, Refinery 29, TaskRabbit)
Paul Madera
Co-founder at Meritech Capital (Portfolio including Facebook, Salesforce, Yammer)
Tim Ferriss
#1New York Times bestselling author
Andrew Ng
Founder of Coursera, AI expert at Baidu, Google, Stanford
Adam D'angelo
Founder + CEO at Quora
Mrs. Sarah Mower
Chief Critic at Vogue
Sam Altman
CEO of OpenAI
Alex Schultz
CMO at Facebook
Patrick Collison
Founder + CEO at Stripe
Aaron Levie
Founder + CEO at Box
Jan Koum
Founder + CEO at WhatsApp
Emmett Shear
Founder + CEO at Twitch.tv
Marc Benioff
Founder + CEO at
Salesforce
Steve Huffman
Founder + CEO at Reddit
Matt Groening
Creator of the Simpsons
Bill Marriot
Chairman of the Board of Marriott International
Reid Hoffman
Founder at Linkedin
Ashton Kutcher
Actor and investor
Dick Costolo
ex-CEO at Twitter
Marrisa Mayer
ex-CEO at Yahoo
Brian Chesky
CEO at Airbnb
Jeff Weiner
ex-CEO at LinkedIn
Reed Hastings
CEO at Netflix
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