Anish Dhar is the Cofounder and CEO of Cortex, a San Francisco-based internal developer portal company he co-founded in 2019 after spending nearly five years as an engineer at Uber. Watching Uber's microservices sprawl into chaos—thousands of undocumented services named after video games, ownership lost every time someone quit—he rented an Airbnb for a weekend hackathon with two friends and built the first version of what would become a $470M company backed by Sequoia, Scale Venture Partners, IVP, and the Collison brothers. Cortex raised $60M in Series C funding in September 2024 and is used by engineering teams at Adobe, Grammarly, Xero, TripAdvisor, and Canva to catalog, score, and continuously improve their software services.
CGP Grey is an Irish-American educational YouTuber and podcaster based in London who has spent more than a decade turning constitutional minutiae, geographic absurdities, and the strange edges of human systems into addictive short animated films. He works alone, never shows his face, draws himself as a stick figure in glasses, and treats production schedules as raw material for podcasts about how creative people get anything done at all.
Wayne Goeckeritz is a seasoned cybersecurity channel executive serving as Security Channel Partner at Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), where he supports the firm's Go-To-Market Network across venture teams. With a career spanning decades in IT channel sales, he has held leadership roles at Cisco, Juniper, Crossbeam, NetWitness, Prolexic, Demisto, Palo Alto Networks, Siemplify (acquired by Google Cloud), and SentinelOne, building a reputation as one of the most impactful channel leaders in the cybersecurity industry.
Myke Hurley is a British podcaster, network co-founder, and product creator based in London. He co-founded Relay FM in 2014 with Stephen Hackett, growing it into one of the most respected independent podcast networks covering Apple and technology. He hosts Cortex (with CGP Grey), Upgrade (with Jason Snell), Connected, and more. In 2019 he co-founded Cortex Brand with CGP Grey, producing the Theme System Journal. He launched his independent newsletter The Enthusiast in 2025. Business Insider dubbed him the 'Podcasting Don' of UK tech.