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Nitesh Goel Built a Wall. Teachers Turned It Into a World.
A student project, a surprise bandwidth bill and one stubbornly simple idea became Padlet - the visual canvas now used by 40 million people around the world.
Irene Chung
Irene Chung is a product builder and former startup founder who leads collaboration product work at Webflow, the visual web development platform. She co-founded and co-ran StellarEmploy, a data-driven recruiting tool for high-turnover hourly jobs that was later acquired by Learning Collider, then built collaboration and integrations products at Dropbox before joining Webflow. Trained with dual graduate degrees from the Harvard Kennedy School and MIT Sloan, she describes herself as a builder focused on how people use technology to think and work together.
Thomas Scott
Thomas Scott is the Chief Executive Officer of Wrike, the enterprise work management platform headquartered in San Diego. A self-described total company leader who arrived as CFO in 2022, he took the interim seat in July 2023 after Symphony Technology Group acquired the business, and was made permanent CEO in February 2024. His mandate: steady the ship after three ownership changes, push AI deeper into the product, and turn Wrike into a multi-product platform.
Justin Rosenstein
Justin Rosenstein is the co-founder of Asana and creator of some of the internet's most influential features - including the Facebook Like button and Gmail Chat. A Stanford mathematics graduate who dropped out of grad school at 20 to join Google, he went on to shape how billions communicate and collaborate online. Now he's wrestling with the consequences of his creations, starring in Netflix's The Social Dilemma and founding One Project, a nonprofit reimagining governance and economics. He lives in Agape, a cooperative house in San Francisco's Mission District founded on unconditional love, and has banned himself from the very technologies he helped build.