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Jarret

Building something fun and funky to disrupt a super stale market. Previously held senior roles at companies big and small, including mktg, product, operations, biz strat/analytics, partnerships, and customer success.

Andrew

Software engineer, previously worked at Figma on the product and the engine, Berkeley CS. Interested in computer graphics, computer vision, and machine learning.

William

Technical founder who builds from -1→0->1. Created ML-powered document platforms at AngelList, architected loan trading systems at ORSNN, and led engineering teams at Amazon. Solves complex challenges with Go, AWS, and AI to deliver market-ready solutions.

Kevin

Studied CS @ UWaterloo, learned to be a SWE. Spent past 5 years as a PM. Marketplace PM @ Lime (scooters, Series A -> D), then founding PM @ Kikoff (fintech, Seed -> Series B). Working to make the world more abundant with tools that give humans leverage.

Somdev

Achievements ● Back to back NCAA singles Champion in 2007 & 2008 while at UVa ● Career high of #62 in ATP singles rankings 2011 (highest Indian since Ramesh Krishnan in 1992) ● Wins over Raonic, Cilic, Baghdatis, Isner, Anderson, Johnson, Sock, Vesely, Schuettler, Tipsarevic, Dolgopolov, Malisse, among others ● Led India to the World Group of Davis Cup in 2009 & 2010 ● Singles gold medalist at 2010 Commonwealth Games in men’s singles ● Men’s singles and doubles gold with Sanam Singh at 2010 Asian Games ● 2 career ATP World Tour Finals - 2009, Chennai and 2011, Johannesburg Awards and Recognitions ● Arjuna Award 2011, for Outstanding Performance in sports ● After major shoulder surgery in 2012, was nominated for Comeback Player of the year by the ATP in 2013 and lost out to Rafael Nadal ● Padma Shri 2018 (4th highest civilian award in India) ● NCAA Tennis Hall of Fame inductee 2019 Post Retirement from the ATP Tour in March 2016 ● Trustee of Life is a Ball Public Charitable Trust ⇢ Charity co-founded in 2011 that enables children across India to play sport ⇢ Works with over 1000 children every year ● Co-founded GetFit in 2013, a movement that works on development of children through sport in schools ⇢ Worked with over 100 schools across India ● Co-founder/ Director of Wild Warrior ⇢ Leaders in obstacle races across India ● National Observer for tennis for the Indian Ministry of youth and sports affairs 2017-18 ● Consultant for several pro’s and juniors on the tour as a mentor/ guide including: ⇢ Prajnesh Gunneswaran Career high 75 ⇢ Sumit Nagal Career high 68 ● Travelled with the Indian Davis Cup team as consultant ● High performance coach at Nensel Academy in Peine, Germany ● Media work with tennis as a commentator/ expert analyst ⇢ Rio 2016, Tokyo 2020 and Paris 2024 Summer Olympics ⇢ Asian games 2018 and 2023 ⇢ Australian Open 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 & 2025 ⇢ ATP 250 Pune Maharashtra Open 2019, 2020 & 2022 ⇢ Roland Garros 2022, 2023, 2024 ⇢ Commonwealth Games 2022

Samvit

Samvit Majumdar is a former SaaS entrepreneur and software engineer currently exploring new ventures and enjoying Formula 1.

Bryan

CTO of Centari. We help with documents.

Tim

Tim Shi is the Co-Founder & CTO of Cresta. He started his PhD at Stanford AI Lab researching natural language processing and reinforcement learning. He was an early member of the OpenAI team in 2016 and made contribution to building safe AGI in digital environments. His work on "world of bits" laid foundation for web-based reinforcement learning agents. He co-founded Cresta in 2017 and Cresta was one of first companies to deploy generative AI in enterprise, including GPT based suggestions product in 2019. Cresta is backed by top investors including Sequoia, a16z, Greylock and helps drive hundreds of millions in ROI across Fortune 500 customers like United Airlines, US Bank and Verizon. He and his team hold multiple patents in AI for contact center conversations.

Lakshman

I'm one of those true believers in crypto you might've read about. Building a 10 year career in the space. Currently focused on building out Ethereum 2.0 at the Ethereum Foundation. I write here: https://www.lakshmansankar.com/#/

Shikhar

Unicorn founder, travel industry expert