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Mitch Lee
Mitch Lee is the co-founder and CEO of Arc, the Los Angeles marine-technology company trying to make everything that floats electric. A Bay Area kid raised on the California Delta, he trained as a mechanical engineer at Northwestern, analyzed Apache helicopter rotor blades at Boeing, then spent years in software - founding Penny, which was acquired by Credit Karma - before reuniting with his old Boeing and Northwestern classmate Ryan Cook, a former SpaceX lead engineer, to build electric boats in 2021. Arc has raised more than $150 million, ships its Arc Sport wake boat and Arc Coast center console from a 150,000-square-foot LA factory, and in 2026 pushed into commercial and defense propulsion with a $50M Series C and a $160M tugboat contract for the Port of Los Angeles.
Jonathan Chao
Jonathan Chao is the co-founder of Haven, a mortgage servicing technology platform built to engage the 53 million U.S. homeowners with a mortgage. A UC Berkeley applied-math grad who started his career as an actuary, he became one of the earliest employees at Credit Karma, led consumer product at Plaid, then launched Haven in 2020. He served as CEO through the company's $8M Series A before stepping into the Chief Product Officer seat in 2023 to focus on the product he set out to build. He was named a 2024 HousingWire Rising Star.
Sasan Goodarzi
Sasan Goodarzi is the Chairman and CEO of Intuit, the financial-software company behind TurboTax, QuickBooks, Credit Karma and Mailchimp. Born in Tehran and raised in Orlando, the electrical engineer turned operator has pushed Intuit from a desktop tax shop into an AI-driven platform, growing annual revenue from roughly $7.7B to nearly $19B during his tenure.
Anish Acharya
Anish Acharya is a General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) who led the firm's consumer fintech and consumer AI investing for five-plus years before announcing his departure in 2025/2026 to build again. A University of Waterloo computer engineering grad, he co-founded SocialDeck (acquired by Google in 2010) and Snowball (acquired by Credit Karma in 2015), where he then rose to GM overseeing a platform of 100M+ members. Known for coining the 'Era of Abundance' consumer AI thesis, writing 'Disposable Software,' and spending weekends spinning deep house records under his DJ alias 'illscience,' Acharya occupies a rare space where operator intuition, engineering rigor, and cultural ear collide.