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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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How venture, SaaS, and AI intersect in enterprise—spanning frontier tech, secure AI workflows, GTM strategy, and capital-efficient scaling across emerging startup ecosystems.

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How media, fintech, infrastructure investing, and AI-native startups are converging—highlighting how platforms, capital, and content-driven distribution are shaping the next generation of companies and funds.

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How AI, venture capital, and developer/community platforms are driving the next generation of market-creating startups and enterprise growth across cloud, cybersecurity, healthcare, and work.

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AI transformation, tech leadership, and venture capital are shaping the next generation of bold startups and emerging entrepreneurs.

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How fintech, consumer tech, AI infrastructure, and developer tooling are being democratized by founders and investors building the next generation of scalable platforms.

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How AI, fintech, consumer platforms, esports, travel tech, and open-source infrastructure are converging to expand access, participation, and innovation across industries.

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How AI, enterprise infrastructure, and developer tools are accelerating startup formation and ecosystem growth—from venture-backed AI startups to open-source innovation and the global scaling of technical founders.

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Latest in security, AI, SaaS, investing, and innovation with top industry leaders.

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Startup design sprints to scaling AI-native B2B tools:

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The future of vertical software, consumer AI, fintech, and commerce infrastructure:

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AI and branding to fintech, wellness, and consumer growth

76

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AI is reshaping enterprise workflows, venture investing, and early-stage company building across applications like agents, security, and healthcare.

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Venture with Grace

Shaping the future of AI, gaming, and marketing. From startup journeys to GTM playbooks and fund-building insights

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Venture with Grace

AI infrastructure, productivity agents, gaming, fintech, and preventative health with six powerhouse guests leading the next wave of innovation

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Fundraising, branding, founder support, and early-stage investing.

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AI is reshaping enterprise systems—from healthcare and cybersecurity to SaaS, fintech, and cloud-scale customer success—through the lens of founders, operators, and investors.

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How venture, SaaS, and AI intersect in enterprise—spanning frontier tech, secure AI workflows, GTM strategy, and capital-efficient scaling across emerging startup ecosystems.

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AI transformation, tech leadership, and venture capital are shaping the next generation of bold startups and emerging entrepreneurs.

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How fintech, consumer tech, AI infrastructure, and developer tooling are being democratized by founders and investors building the next generation of scalable platforms.

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The future of AI, enterprise, health, fintech, and consumer tech.

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AI, fintech, cloud, security, and venture investing with some of the top minds shaping the future of tech.

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AI infrastructure, healthcare, authentication, and venture investing are enabling the next generation of scalable, market-defining technology companies.

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How AI, fintech, consumer platforms, esports, travel tech, and open-source infrastructure are converging to expand access, participation, and innovation across industries.

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Building technical expertise for investing, growing a career in venture capital, and evaluating enterprise software startups.

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Building successful product teams, creating marketplaces in Web3, and lessons from leading products at top Silicon Valley companies.

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Strong gaming communities, using community feedback to improve products, and designing game economies that align player and company incentives.

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The business side of YouTube, building systems and teams as a creator, and growing audiences across platforms

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Prioritizing time and resources for the right products, and hiring, motivating, and developing talent.

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Media careers and business growth, building successful conferences, and understanding content creation across Web1–Web3.

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Building leading social investment platforms, evaluating investments through strong due diligence, and understanding the future of crypto, NFTs, and DAOs.

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Traditional finance and crypto banking, scaling companies globally, and the future of DeFi, crypto, and NFTs.

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Successful DAOs and Web3 communities, creating top startup accelerators, and developing strong professional networks.

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Transitioning from journalism to tech, building a strong personal brand on LinkedIn, and setting effective goals and KPIs for teams and careers.

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Identifying top crypto startups, breaking into Web3 as a non-technical professional, and understanding how crypto investing differs from traditional venture capital.

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Iconic global brands, growing a career in marketing, and using emerging technologies like NFTs and AI for brand innovation.

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Accelerating career growth through smart company choices, and creating products for Gen Z users.

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Building strong operating principles, creating products customers love, and hiring and managing high-performing teams.

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Transitioning from operator to leader, navigating team dynamics, and identifying the highest-impact priorities in new roles.

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Bootstrapping and growing organically, building passionate user communities, and scaling businesses strategically.

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Building successful digital influencers, and creating strong networks with talented peers.

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Technical roles to business leadership, navigating career changes after M&A, and building skills for long-term career growth.

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Building innovative teams, and identifying core problems to create impactful products.

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Building a consumer brand from scratch, scaling sales as a CPG founder, and using customer feedback to create successful products.

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Identifying iconic startups, building strong VC relationships and networks, and quickly learning new technology sectors.

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Investing in crypto and NFTs, building an information network for innovation, and creating compelling consumer products.

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Improving workplace soft skills, building effective business strategies, and hiring and retaining top talent.

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Emerging markets like NFTs and crypto, identifying strong NFT projects, and staying ahead of fast-moving industry trends.

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