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Erik Bernhardsson

CEO at Modal
Valuation: $4.65 billion

Prashanth Chandrasekar

CEO at Stack Overflow

Sri Viswanath

Founder & CEO at Sycamore

Erik Bernhardsson

CEO at Modal
Valuation: $4.65 billion

Hemant Mohapatra

Partner at Lightspeed

Patti Degnan

Partner at a16z

James Flynn

Partner at Sequoia Capital

Wen Sang

Cofounder & COO at Genspark.ai

Tim Shi

Co-founder at Recursive
Valuation: $4.65 Billion

Lior Susan

Founding & CEO at Eclipse Ventures

Steve Jang

Founder & Managing Partner at Kindred Ventures

Mar Hershenson

Founding Managing Partner at Pear VC

Mahi de Silva

Co-Founder at Higgsfield AI
Valuation: $1.3 Billion

Emily Yuan

Co-Founder at Corgi
Valuation: $4 Billion

Nico Laqua

Co-Founder at Corgi
Valuation: 4 Billion

Gary Pinkus

Senior Business Advisor at PACT Capital Partners, Chairman of McKinsey North America

Ryan Gavin

CMO at Slack

Roman Chernin

Co-Founder, Growth at Nebius

Sumit Chauhan

EVP, Office Product Group at Microsoft

Aparna Chennapragada

CPO for AI Experiences at Microsoft, former CPO of Robinhood, former VP of Google

Denise Persson

CMO of Snowflake

David Cowan

Partner at Bessemer Venture Partners Portfolio: LinkedIn, Twitch

Kim Scott

NYT&WSJ Bestselling Author of Radical Candor, ex-CEO coach of Dropbox &Twitter

Howard Wright

VP at Nvidia

Ethan Evans

Former VP at Amazon

Chris Voss

CEO at The Black Swan Group, Ltd, WSJ Bestselling Author

Erin Egan

VP & Chief Privacy Officer, Public Policy at Facebook / Meta

Marvin Chow

VP at Google

Rob Chesnut

General Counsel, Global Head of Policy at Watershed, Former Chief Ethics Officer at Airbnb

Deepak Agarwal

Chief AI Officer at LinkedIn

Monty Moran

Former Co-CEO at Chipotle Mexican Grill

Robert Rosenberg

Retired CEO of Dunkin' Donuts, ex-Board Member @Domino's Pizza

Kevin Rose

Chairman at Digg, ex-GP at Google Ventures

Chris Koehler

CMO at Twilio

Tony Stubblebine

CEO at Medium

Henry Schuck

CEO at Zoominfo

Berent Bellm

CCO at Wave Neuroscience, Former CEO at BigCommerce

Ben Kus

CTO at Box

Matt Madrigal

CTO at Pinterest

Suzanne Kounkel

CMO at Deloitte

Elizabeth Jarvis-Shean

Chief Corporate Affairs Officer at DoorDash

Daniel Kan

CEO and Co-Founder at Fifth Door

Chris Slowe

Senior Technical Fellow at Reddit

Todd Kaplan

CMO at Kraft Heinz, former CMO at Pepsi

Jim McKelvey

Co-founder at Square

Craig Newmark

Founder at Craigslist

Charlie Roberts

Chief Investment Strategist at Ark Invest

Mark Kraynak

Founding Partner at Acrew Capital

Clayton Bryan

Partner at 500 Global

Abe Murray

General Partner at AlleyCorp

Niko Bonatsos

Founder & Managing Director at Verdict Capital

Mitchell Green

Founder and Managing Partner at Lead Edge Capital

Ashu Garg

General Partner at Foundation Capital

Adeyemi Ajao

Managing Partner at Base 10

Nnamdi Okike

Managing Partner & Co-Founder at 645 Ventures

Alan Cohen

General Partner at DCVC

Peter Wagner

Founding Partner at Wing Venture Capital

Ravi Viswanathan

Founding and Managing Partner at NewView Capital

David Cohen

Co-Founder & CEO at Techstars

Jordan Segall

Partner at Redpoint Ventures

Kelli Fontaine

Partner at Cendana Capital

Neil Sequeira

Founder & Partner at Defy VC

Ed Sim

Founder & General Partner at Boldstart

Shira Eting

Partner at Vintage Investment Partners

Lior Susan

Founder and CEO at Eclipes Venture

Chris Douvos

Founder at Ahoy Capital

Arjun Sethi

Co-Founder and Chairman at Tribe Capital

Tony Conrad

Partner at True Ventures

Saanya Ojha

Partner at Bain Capital Ventures

Brent Murri

Partner at M13

Vivek Ramaswami

Partner at Madrona

Steve Sloane

Partner at Menlo Ventures

Ben Sun

Partner at Primary Ventures

Aditi Maliwal

General Partner at Upfront Ventures

Shahin Farshchi

Partner at Lux Capital

Darian Shirazi

General Partner at Gradient Ventures

Mar Hershenson

Managing Partner at Pear VC

Rajeev Dham

Partner at Sapphire Ventures

Aditya Naganath

Partner at Kleiner Perkins

Michael Droesch

Partner at Bessemer Venture Partners

Somesh Dash

General Partner at IVP

Aaron Jacobson

Partner at NEA

James Flynn

Partner at Sequoia Capital

Emily Bennett

Partner at a16z

Hemant Mohapatra

Partner at Lightspeed

Ian Sigalow

Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Greycroft

Chase Lochmiller

Co-Founder and CEO at Crusoe

Vijay Krishnan

Founder & CTO at Turing

Dave Steer

CMO at Webflow

Deepa Gopinath

CIO at MongoDB

Patti Degnan

Partner at a16z

Sonali Singh

Partner at Sequoia Capital

Alan Du

Partner at M12 -Microsoft's Venture Fund

Samantha Wu

Chief Marketing Officer at Eventbrite

Alex Mashrabov

CEO & Co-founder, Higgsfield AI

Olivia Nottebohm

COO at Box

Rashida Hodge

CVP, Microsoft

Kevin Smith

CIO at Lyft

Dipti Borkar

VP & GM at Microsoft Azure Data

Susana Rojas

Partner at Index Ventures

Lucas Swisher

Co-Head of Growth Investing at Coatue Management

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