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Jackson

Founding CEO of Mentor Collective (edtech). Led company to 100s of customers and 4x listings on Inc 5000. Stepped into Chairman role after 10 years and now exploring new ventures.

Andrew

TLDR: - Previously Founder & CEO of Nova (acq. by Handshake) - Led generative AI products at Handshake - Write the TLDR AI & Founders newsletters (1M subs total - tldr.tech/ai) - Background in AI research, product, engineering, data, and investing from Google AI, Citadel, AQR, Sequoia, Branch - Angel investor in Anthropic, Pika, Mercury, Replit, Alchemy, Uniswap, Runway ML, Varda Space, Pinecone, Coframe, MultiOn, Decagon, Gumloop, Haize Labs, Mercor, Goodfire AI, Etched, and many more - Undergrad at UC Berkeley (CS & Stats), grad school at Stanford (AI) Love sports (basketball, tennis, golf, triathlon, weightlifting), puzzles & strategy games, cooking, history, and traveling. But most importantly, I love meeting, learning from, and working with amazing people.

Geoff

Founder of Apollo GraphQL, MeteorJS, Monument, and others

Ayush

Focused on AI-augmented reading tools and modeling human behavior. Did a PhD in Computer Science (Machine learning and Recommendation Systems) at Stanford, Masters in Economics; undergrad at IIT Bombay Computer Science. Previously co-founded MoveUp AI and worked at Google. Always open to connecting — reach out to discuss mutual interests!

Dmitry

I'm interested in exploring applications of AI and LLM models into fields from search, recommendations, SWE productivity, or creative productivity tooling. I've worked on products, teams, and systems in ML and data, and has built teams from early to late stage at consumer social, B2B SaaS (security) and looking into new domains.

Pierre

Hi, I’m Pierre Ettori, a seasoned technology leader with 15+ years of experience building and scaling Cloud and SaaS products. I’ve led product and go-to-market efforts at companies like Google and Temporal, and I was the CEO and co-founder of Styra, creators of the Open Policy Agent (OPA) project. I was also part of Nicira’s journey to acquisition by VMware. As a former professional athlete turned tech leader, I bring energy, focus, and a passion for helping businesses adopt transformative technologies to build better products, faster.

Damon

Software engineer & technical leader in Games. I've worked in the industry for 15 years at studios ranging from my own startup to AAA. If you're interested in the games space hit me up.

Harsha

Career in I-Banking and Fund Management. 3rd time founder. Enthusiastic gamer. Bangalorean.

Veer

Veer is a CS major from MIT specializing in AI and distributed systems. He's currently building Inflight, a platform that democratizes access to expert feedback, enabling teams to build better products. Previously, Veer built Airchat for two years.

Wenlong

Built controllers for various types of humanoid robots