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Ray Dargham
Ray Dargham is the co-founder and CEO of Step, the Dubai-born media and events company behind the Step Conference, a startup and tech festival that grew from about 100 people in a co-working space in 2012 into an 8,000-plus attendee gathering that now travels between Dubai, Riyadh and San Francisco. He also runs the digital publishers StepFeed and YallaFeed, founded the brand-tech shop Spiderfrogs, and hosts the Maté podcast for MENA founders. Forbes put him on its 30 Under 30 cover in 2018.
Swyx
Shawn 'Swyx' Wang is a Singaporean-American developer, writer, and community builder who left a $350K hedge fund career to teach himself to code at 30 - then coined the term 'AI Engineer,' built one of tech's most influential AI podcasts (Latent Space), and launched the AI Engineer conference series that put 15,000 developers in rooms together to figure out what this job actually is.
Jason Lemkin
Jason Lemkin is the founder of SaaStr - the world's largest B2B/SaaS community, conference, and fund - and the co-founder of EchoSign, which he sold to Adobe in 2011 and scaled to $100M+ ARR. Known as the 'Godfather of SaaS,' he built a media and investment empire from a Quora side project, deployed $200M+ into unicorns including Algolia, Talkdesk, and Pipedrive, and now runs an eight-figure business with 3 humans and 20+ AI agents. His daily 5 AM LinkedIn posts and @jasonlk Twitter presence have made him one of the most influential SaaS voices globally, with 279,000+ LinkedIn followers and 185,000+ on Twitter/X.