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Raoul Scherwitzl Learned to Build at the Speed of Proof
A physicist left the laboratory to build a consumer company where every launch has to survive scrutiny. His edge is not speed alone, but the patience to make evidence compound.
The Photo Editor That Refused to Chase Photoshop - and Outlasted Almost Everyone
Two founders bootstrapped a photo editor for 16 months on family money, turned down the growth-at-all-costs playbook, and built a quietly profitable creative tool used by tens of millions - one Cartoonizer click at a time.
Wilson Spearman
Wilson Spearman is the co-founder and CEO of CreativeMode (YC S24), an AI-powered, no-code platform that lets anyone build Minecraft mods without writing code. An MIT computer science graduate who worked on AI cloud infrastructure at Crusoe and procurement tools at Settle, he now leads a small San Francisco team that has helped players create hundreds of thousands of mods - by the company's account, more Minecraft mods in nine months than in the game's previous seventeen years combined. When he is not shipping software, he is an aspiring ski mountaineer chasing alpine glacier routes.
Kurt Beidler
Kurt Beidler is the Chief Executive Officer of Quizlet, the AI-powered learning platform used by hundreds of millions of students worldwide. Appointed in July 2024, he brings 17 years of Amazon experience scaling subscription businesses - most notably growing Amazon Kids+ into the world's largest youth-focused subscription service and launching Kindle into China. Under his leadership, Quizlet has grown revenue to $139M annually while aggressively integrating AI tools including a native ChatGPT app integration, lecture recording features, and an OpenAI partnership aimed at keeping students' entire study workflow on one platform.
Seth Rosenberg
Seth Rosenberg is a General Partner at Greylock Partners, where he leads investments in fintech and AI from the firm's New York office. Before venture capital, he spent three years at Facebook as a product manager on Messenger - helping scale it from 200 million to over one billion monthly active users and launching its AI bot platform. Before that, he worked in tech and media investment banking at Goldman Sachs. At Greylock, he has championed an influential 'Product-Led AI' investing framework and backed companies including Ramp, Tome (now Lightfield), Wisetack, PayJoy, and Roblox.