
Before Hudson Liao built an AI company around the craft of growth, he spent nearly 15 years learning that craft in places as varied as a firehouse, a finance office, biotech labs and scrappy startups. The Hog is his attempt to bottle the judgment without draining the humanity.

Hydra Mendoza is the VP and Chief of Strategic Relationships in the Office of the Chair and CEO at Salesforce, where she builds and stewards key stakeholder relationships across government, community, and corporate sectors. A native San Franciscan born to a Filipino military family, she made history as the first and only Filipina ever elected to office in San Francisco - serving three terms on the SF Unified School District Board. Her career spans community organizing, mayoral advising, school board leadership, and overseeing communications for the nation's largest public school system before joining Salesforce, where she co-architected the company's original educational investments alongside Marc Benioff.