Mel Robbins is a bestselling author, award-winning podcast host, and one of the most-booked motivational speakers in the world. The creator of the 5 Second Rule and The Let Them Theory, she turned a near-bankruptcy crisis at 41 into a media empire with 40 million followers, a top-3 global podcast, and books translated into 65 languages. As CEO of 143 Studios, she produces content for corporate partners including Starbucks, JPMorgan Chase, and LinkedIn.
Inkitt is a San Francisco-based AI-powered publishing and entertainment company that uses reader data and machine learning to identify breakout stories before they become hits. Writers upload fiction to Inkitt's community platform; the platform's algorithm tracks reader engagement to surface manuscripts with bestseller potential. Top stories move to Galatea, a premium immersive reading app offering ebooks, audiobooks, and chat-style fiction, and then to CandyJar, a short-drama streaming app. The result: a story-to-screen pipeline with 33 million users, a new million-dollar novel produced every four weeks, and 40x the hit-rate of traditional publishers.
Josh Kaufman is a bestselling author, independent business researcher, and educator best known for 'The Personal MBA' - a book that challenged the necessity of expensive graduate business degrees and sold over a million copies worldwide. His TEDx talk on rapid skill acquisition has amassed over 42 million views, placing it among the most-watched TED talks ever. Through his three books and advisory practice, he helps entrepreneurs, executives, and self-learners build business acumen, acquire new skills faster, and pursue ambitious goals without institutional gatekeeping.
Morgan Housel is a partner at Collaborative Fund and bestselling author of 'The Psychology of Money' (2020) and 'Same As Ever' (2023), with over 11 million copies sold globally across 60+ languages. A former Wall Street Journal contributor and two-time Best in Business award winner, he writes about the intersection of human behavior and money, arguing that financial success is less about intelligence and more about temperament. Housel sits on the board of Markel Corporation and is widely regarded as one of the most influential voices in behavioral finance today.