
Jesse Pickard is the Founder and CEO of The Mind Company (formerly Elevate Labs), the studio behind Elevate (Apple's App of the Year 2014), Balance (Google's App of the Year 2021), and Spark - a portfolio of science-backed mental fitness apps with over 80 million downloads. A designer-turned-entrepreneur, Pickard co-founded language learning startup MindSnacks in 2010 before pivoting to build Elevate in 2014, pioneering the consumer mental fitness category. He is also an Investing Partner at Volo Ventures.

John Lai is a Taiwanese-Australian entrepreneur and the Founder & CEO of MixerBox, a Palo Alto-based AI super-apps company backed by Y Combinator. A former competitive programmer who won the Australian Championship and a silver medal at the ICPC world finals, Lai parlayed his University of New South Wales computer engineering degree (with First Class Honours and the University Medal) and a Harvard master's degree into building MixerBox in 2012. The company's portfolio of daily-essential mobile apps has surpassed 300 million downloads worldwide, and MixerBox became the largest developer in the ChatGPT Plugin Store by plugin count. Investors include Y Combinator, Adam D'Angelo (Facebook's first CTO, Quora CEO), and Paul Buchheit (Gmail creator).