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Alex De Simone
Alex De Simone is the CEO and co-founder of Avochato, a business messaging platform that lets sales, support, and operations teams talk to customers over text. He launched it the summer after his first year at Stanford GSB, grew it to seven-figure revenue in under a year, and raised a $5M Series A led by Amity Ventures in 2018. Before Avochato he co-founded Jobr, a Tinder-style job-search app acquired by Monster.com. A self-taught coder with a mechanical engineering background, he turned a side project into a product used by 1,000+ businesses for millions of two-way conversations.
Nate Okonkwo
Nate Okonkwo (also known as Aneto Okonkwo) is the co-founder and CEO of Remarkable AI, the New York software company formerly called Chatdesk. After 7+ years at Google building Voice Search and the Google Assistant, he left to apply machine learning to customer service - an industry that employs millions and, in his view, was ripe for both better software and better jobs. His platform now helps more than 1,000 brands grow revenue through personalized messaging across email, social, and SMS, blending AI with human agents to hit 90%+ customer satisfaction.