Kevin Rose is a serial tech entrepreneur, angel investor, and wellness advocate who founded Digg in 2004 with $1,200 and turned it into a 38-million-user social news juggernaut. A former Google Ventures partner with early bets on Twitter, Square, Uber, and Slack, he has since pivoted toward deep wellness practices - Zen meditation, intermittent fasting, cold exposure - while building the ZERO and OAK apps. In 2025, he re-acquired Digg alongside Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian, relaunching it in January 2026 as an AI-powered Reddit alternative. He publishes a widely-read newsletter at kevinrose.com and hosts The Kevin Rose Show podcast.
Lenny Rachitsky is the author of Lenny's Newsletter, the world's largest product-focused newsletter with 1.2M+ subscribers, host of a top-10 global tech podcast, angel investor in 130+ companies, and former product lead at Airbnb where he helped transform instant booking from 5% to 80%+ of all reservations. Born in Odesa, Ukraine to refusenik parents who emigrated to the US when he was six, Lenny built a lean, high-quality media empire that earns $3M+ annually — all from a home studio in Marin County, with a digital fireplace backdrop and a strict no-meetings-before-3pm rule.
Packy McCormick is the founder of Not Boring, a weekly newsletter with 250,000+ subscribers that covers technology, business strategy, and startups through long-form essays. He also runs Not Boring Capital, a solo-GP venture fund with two funds totaling ~$38M invested across 79+ companies. A former investment banker and startup operator, he turned a writing homework assignment into one of the most-read independent tech publications, pioneering a 'media flywheel' model where newsletter content and venture investing reinforce each other.
Scott Belsky is an entrepreneur, author, and prolific angel investor best known for founding Behance - the world's leading platform for creative professionals - which he sold to Adobe for ~$150M in 2012. After serving as Adobe's Chief Product Officer and later Chief Strategy Officer (overseeing growth from $19B to $170B+ market cap), he departed in January 2025 to become a Partner at A24, the acclaimed indie studio, where he is founding A24 Labs. He is the author of two bestsellers - 'Making Ideas Happen' and 'The Messy Middle' - and publishes the 'Implications' newsletter on design, tech, and product strategy. With 282+ angel investments including Uber, Pinterest, Airtable, Notion, and Ramp, Belsky is one of the most active design-focused investors in tech.
Elad Gil is a Silicon Valley polymath - biologist-turned-Googler-turned-Twitter VP-turned-solo venture capitalist - who has backed 40+ unicorns including Airbnb, Stripe, Coinbase, Pinterest, and OpenAI. Managing $3+ billion as one of the largest solo GPs in venture history, he also co-founded Color Genomics, wrote the 'High Growth Handbook' (published by Stripe Press), and co-hosts the No Priors AI podcast with Sarah Guo. His blog (Elad Blog) reaches tens of thousands of readers on startups, AI, and longevity.
Hiten Shah is a serial SaaS entrepreneur, angel investor, and startup advisor who co-founded KISSmetrics, Crazy Egg, Nira (acquired by Dropbox in 2024), and Product Habits. Over 20+ years, he has built and scaled multiple companies using a philosophy of radical customer obsession, clarity of communication, and deliberate execution. He advises 120+ startups, has invested in 25+ companies, and shares insights through his newsletter, The Startup Chat podcast, and a 272K+ following on X.
Kieran Flanagan is the Chief Marketing Officer at Zapier and one of the most influential voices in B2B marketing. A former software engineer turned marketing leader, he spent nearly a decade at HubSpot building its international marketing engine - growing the Dublin office from 12 to 1,000+ employees. Today he co-hosts the 'Marketing Against the Grain' podcast with HubSpot CMO Kipp Bodnar, publishes 'The AI Marketing Generalist' newsletter on Substack, and invests as a Sequoia Scout. He is widely credited with pioneering the B2B creator approach to marketing and is an outspoken champion of AI-driven marketing transformation.
Marc Andreessen co-invented the Mosaic browser as a $6.85/hour student programmer, then went on to co-found Netscape, help birth the modern internet, and eventually build Andreessen Horowitz into a $42B+ venture capital juggernaut. The man who wrote 'software is eating the world' in 2011 spent the next decade proving himself right by backing Twitter, Facebook, Coinbase, and GitHub. In 2023 he published the Techno-Optimist Manifesto and in 2024 pivoted to advising the Trump administration's DOGE initiative - cementing his status as Silicon Valley's most opinionated, polarizing, and consequential voice.
Nihal Mehta is a serial entrepreneur turned seed-stage venture capitalist and Co-Founder & General Partner at ENIAC Ventures, one of New York's leading seed funds. Known as the 'Human Rolodex,' Mehta has backed early investments in Uber, Airbnb, AdMob (acquired by Google), and SwiftKey (acquired by Microsoft) while building a reputation as a founder-first investor who connects people without keeping score. He founded Pitch & Run NYC, a community blending startup pitches with morning runs, and hosts the Human Unicorn Podcast. A UPenn dual-degree graduate who once filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy in his 20s, Mehta channels that hard-won empathy into backing the next generation of founders through ENIAC's $160M sixth fund.
Shaan Puri is an Indian-American entrepreneur, angel investor, and podcast host best known for co-hosting My First Million with Sam Parr - one of the top business podcasts with 25M+ downloads annually. He sold Bebo to Twitch (Amazon) for up to $25M in 2019, launched and sold the Milk Road crypto newsletter in an eight-figure deal in 2023, and built Bums and Roses into a $25M/year baby products brand with his wife. A self-described contrarian on hard work ('hard work is massively overrated'), he now focuses on content creation, early-stage investing, and writing through his Good Friday newsletter and One Hour Books project.
Shreyas Doshi is one of Silicon Valley's most respected product management voices - a former PM leader at Stripe, Twitter, Google, and Yahoo who now runs High Leverage Labs, advising founders and executives while teaching 4,000+ senior product people through his courses and content. Known for frameworks like LNO prioritization and Radical Delegation, he has built a 400,000+ follower audience with candid, no-nonsense writing on product strategy, leadership, and career growth.
Tanay Jaipuria is a Partner at Wing Venture Capital, a former Meta product leader turned investor and prolific tech analyst. With an MBA from Harvard Business School (Baker Scholar) and a CS degree from Columbia, he bridges operator instinct with investor judgment. He writes Tanay's Newsletter - a weekly Substack with 12,000+ subscribers covering AI economics, enterprise SaaS, and technology business models. With 72,800+ X followers, he's become a trusted voice on the cost of intelligence, AI agent economics, and what makes software businesses defensible in the age of generative AI.
Guillermo Rauch is the founder and CEO of Vercel, the frontend cloud platform that powers millions of developers and some of the world's most visited websites. A self-taught engineer from Lanús, Argentina who never finished high school, Rauch built two of JavaScript's most widely used open-source libraries (Socket.IO and Mongoose), co-created Next.js — the world's most popular React framework — and turned Vercel into a $9.3 billion company with $340 million ARR. He is also one of the most prolific angel investors in tech, with over 700 known investments, and recently launched v0, an AI-powered coding tool with over 3.5 million users.
Joe Beda is the co-creator of Kubernetes and Google Compute Engine, a software engineer who helped build the infrastructure layer that now underpins the modern cloud. After a decade at Google where he made the first Kubernetes commit on GitHub, he co-founded Heptio to commercialize Kubernetes adoption, which VMware acquired in 2018 for roughly $550 million. Now semi-retired, he advises companies like Tailscale, invests in startups including Bluesky and Edera, and writes about technology at eightypercent.net - a blog named after his belief that a simpler system solving 80% of the problem beats an overengineered one that never ships.
Ross Haleliuk is a Ukrainian-born, San Francisco-based cybersecurity entrepreneur, author, angel investor, and operator who built one of the industry's most influential newsletters, 'Venture in Security,' with 21,000+ subscribers. He authored the Amazon bestseller 'Cyber for Builders,' co-founded the world's first angel syndicate exclusively for security practitioners, and currently leads a stealth-mode cybersecurity startup as co-founder and CEO. With a background spanning history studies in Ukraine, product leadership in Canada, and a deep pivot into cybersecurity, he has become a leading voice on building, funding, and growing security companies.
Azhar Hussain is a Karachi-based software engineering leader with over 25 years of experience building and scaling engineering teams across Pakistan and the Gulf. He is the co-founder and former CTO of ChargeUp, a Pakistani fintech-EV startup, and currently serves as CTO of Aladdin Informatics, a company digitizing small retail stores across Pakistan. A 3-time hackathon champion, angel investor, prolific mentor, and IAB member at FAST-NUCES, Azhar sits at the intersection of enterprise architecture, startup culture, and Pakistan's growing tech ecosystem.