
After years building systems that explain what software is doing, Greptime’s founder began asking the same questions of AI agents. The answers took him from monitoring at Ant Group to an experiment involving 23 billion tokens.

AppsFlyer’s co-founder began by writing the code. His work became a longer investigation into what happens when an advertising industry learns to count - and someone learns to cheat.
Kurt Schrader is the co-founder and CEO of Shortcut, the New York project management platform for software teams that started life as Clubhouse in 2014. After years of building and scaling engineering organizations, including a stint as CTO of Intent Media where he grew the team from one person to more than 40, he set out to build tooling that stays simple for daily users while giving leaders real visibility. In 2025 he steered Shortcut into the AI era with Korey, an AI product manager that turns plain-language ideas into build-ready plans.