Ivan Zhao is the co-founder and CEO of Notion, the all-in-one workspace platform used by over 100 million people worldwide. Born in Ürümqi, China, he studied cognitive science and fine arts at the University of British Columbia before nearly going bankrupt building Notion, retreating to Kyoto for eight months to rebuild the entire codebase from scratch. Today Notion is valued at $11 billion with $600 million in annual revenue, and Zhao still owns roughly 30% of it — an unusually large stake that reflects his insistence on building deliberately, keeping the team small, and refusing to let investors dictate the product's direction.
Alberto Romero is a Spanish AI analyst, writer, and newsletter author behind The Algorithmic Bridge, a Substack publication with 40,000+ subscribers. A former machine learning engineer turned independent journalist, he brings an unusual fusion of aerospace engineering, cognitive neuroscience, and ML expertise to bear on the most pressing questions in AI - with a commitment to honesty, no ads, and no sponsors. He is also an analyst at CambrianAI Research, focusing on large language models and AI hardware/software.
Cedric Chin is a Malaysian-born operator, writer, and founder of Commoncog - a paid newsletter serving 9,000+ investors and operators weekly. He bootstrapped a restaurant point-of-sale system (EPOS) from zero to $4.5M ARR in two years before its acquisition by Ant Financial, doubled a SaaS company's ARR in 8 months through repositioning, founded NUS Hackers (Singapore's most influential university hacker club), and now writes long-form research on accelerating business expertise, tacit knowledge, and the mental models shared by experienced operators.