Great ideas rarely emerge from isolation

Anurag

Anurag is the founder and CEO at Render (render.com), a modern cloud provider. He was previously the eighth employee and Head of Risk at Stripe.

Alex

Founder and CEO of Perl, focused on redefining search for the consumer internet. Previously built Lounge (acquired by Mozilla) and Oneminute, with early support from Greylock and the creators of Bebo and MySpace. Writes TLDR intros, a go-to newsletter for early-stage consumer founders and investors. Member of South Park Commons.

Jason

Co-founder and CEO of Storytime, focused on building new ways to engage audiences through audio. Former Head of Partnerships at Expo and a long-time builder and educator at Stanford.

Deon

Deon is the Founder and Executive Chairman of Forethought, the leading generative AI platform for customer support automation. Previously served as CEO, scaling the company over seven years. An early engineer at Pure Storage and Dropbox, he brings deep technical expertise to building AI-first enterprise products.

Dhruv

Co-Founder and former CEO of Elsewhere, the Brooklyn live music company + club. Legislative and policy advocate for music, nightlife, and small business at city, state, and federal levels. Born in Mumbai, raised in CT. Yale undergrad, first career in endowment-style asset management. Lover of jazz, oceans, surfing, sailing, SCUBA, yoga, meditation, cooking, civics, and motorcycles. Talk to me about mental health, neurological disorders, and headaches. Or just about anything. Curious about all, and love to nerd out.

Aaron

Aaron co-founded Matrix Operations, a high-frequency trading firm operating in NYC and London. He designed the software infrastructure and am responsible for realtime performance of the trading systems.

Shishira

Shishira is a PhD student at UMD working on video compression and understanding. He has experience with labs at Snap and Apple and was also a researcher at IISc Bangalore. Currently passionate about building systems that understand the world!

Vinai

Product engineer who loves taking real products to market. Interested in fintech, crypto, and robotics. Formerly at Ramp.

Jiachen

I pioneer the creation of autonomous agents for the long-term needs of diverse real-world applications. Ex-DeepMind, LLNL, Electronic Arts. PhD in Machine learning at Georgia Institute of Technology.

Deborah

Cofounder & CEO at Sparrow - the first high-tech, high-touch employee leave management solution making it simple for companies to provide employee leave throughout North America. We're making employee leave stress-free for companies like Figma, Plaid, and Headspace Health.