
The Australian dealmaker survived a bank collapse, helped build and sell a renewable-gas platform, and now wants batteries to become ordinary infrastructure in Austria. His bet is less about chemistry than patience, permits and bankable cash flows.
Nina Eiböck is the Finance & Strategic Ops Lead in the Office of the CEO at Ello, the San Francisco edtech building the world's first AI reading coach for young children. An Austrian-raised, Oxford- and Stanford-trained financier, she left investment banking at J.P. Morgan and energy-sector finance to help run the numbers and the strategy behind a Series A startup teaching kids to read. She is the kind of operator who names her pet rabbits after Napoleon and Warren Buffett.

Dominik Dorfmeister, known online as TkDodo, is an Austrian software engineer, core maintainer of TanStack Query (formerly React Query), and one of the most influential voices in the React ecosystem. Based in Vienna, he works as a Frontend Engineer at Sentry while helping shape how millions of developers approach server state management. His blog at tkdodo.eu - built on the philosophy that 'if I get a question three times, I write the answer down' - has become essential reading for React developers worldwide. With over 3.5 years maintaining TanStack Query (which now appears in nearly 20% of all React applications), conference talks from Berlin to Paris, and a co-created official course at query.gg, Dominik bridges the gap between library internals and everyday developer experience.