Sharath Kuruganty is a serial entrepreneur, community builder, and angel investor based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Holder of an O-1/EB-1A 'Alien of Extraordinary Ability' visa, he has founded and exited two SaaS startups, is the #1 hunter on Product Hunt with 140+ launches, hosts 'The Undefeated Underdogs' podcast, and is currently building GuestLab.ai - an AI-powered research assistant for podcast hosts. Known for his 'build in public' philosophy, he grew from 200 to 22,000+ Twitter followers and advocates that no-code tools are a superpower for aspiring founders.
Brett Williams is the founder and sole operator of Designjoy, a subscription-based design agency generating over $3M/year entirely by himself - no employees, no meetings, no nonsense. Running on under $200/month in tools and billing clients $4,995-$7,995/month, he's built one of the most efficient service businesses on the internet. He's also the creator of Productize Yourself, a course with 8,000+ members teaching others to replicate his model, and is one of the top 200 creators on X/Twitter where he shares his unconventional approach to work, design, and freedom.
Thibault Louis-Lucas, known as Tibo (@tibo_maker), is a French serial founder and SaaS studio builder who went from bankruptcy to crossing $1M/month in portfolio revenue by March 2026. After selling Tweet Hunter and Taplio to Lempire for $10M+, he built TMAKER - a bootstrapped SaaS studio running multiple profitable products including Revid.ai ($600K MRR), Outrank.so ($300K MRR), and a suite of growth tools. He documents everything publicly.
Ben Tossell is a British founder, creator, and investor who built Makerpad (sold to Zapier in 2021), launched Ben's Bites - the AI newsletter that reached 162,000+ subscribers - six weeks before ChatGPT dropped, and now heads Developer Relations at Factory.ai. A self-described 'technical, non-technical person,' he has never written traditional code yet scouts for both Sequoia and a16z and has backed companies like Supabase, Pika Labs, and Gamma.
Karthik Puvvada - universally known as KP - is the Head of Community at Netlify and the de facto face of the Build In Public movement. After waiting 12 years to found his own company due to visa constraints, he built and scaled programs that have helped 500+ founders across 68 countries. He hosts the Build In Public Podcast (top 10% globally), has championed 150+ Product Hunt launches, and evangelizes radical founder transparency as both a philosophy and a growth strategy.
Justin Jackson is a Canadian entrepreneur and co-founder of Transistor.fm, a bootstrapped podcast hosting platform he built from $33 in first-month revenue to over $1M ARR with just his co-founder Jon Buda. He's a leading voice in the indie bootstrapping movement, author of 'Marketing for Developers', founder of the MegaMaker community, and an advocate for 'calm companies' that prioritize profit, freedom, and founder wellbeing over venture-scale growth.
Marc Lou (born Marc Louvion) is a French solopreneur and serial indie hacker who went from being fired by Tai Lopez in 2021 to earning over $1 million a year - solo, from Bali. He built ShipFast, a Next.js boilerplate that made $250K in five months, and TrustMRR, a verified startup revenue database built in a single day that became his top earner. With 14+ products launched, three sold, and a philosophy built on radical transparency and absurd shipping speed, he is one of the most-followed makers in the build-in-public movement.