Frank Chen is a Partner at Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), where he has been a foundational force since the firm launched in August 2009. A Stanford Symbolic Systems graduate who studied AI before it was fashionable, he has worked alongside Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz across more than 25 years and multiple companies including Loudcloud and Opsware. At a16z, he built the Deal & Research Team, led the Seed Fund, launched the Talent x Opportunity (TxO) initiative, and now heads Early Stage Venture Programs — building the Founder Library and an LLM-based chatbot that delivers a16z institutional knowledge to founders. He is also Silicon Valley's most acclaimed explainer of complex technology: his 2016 AI Primer video became the canonical introduction to deep learning across the industry.
Ali Hamed is the founder, CEO, and partner of Treville Capital Group (formerly CoVenture), a New York-based alternative asset management firm he co-founded as a Cornell student in 2014. From cold-emailing tech executives as an agriculture major to managing $2.7 billion in assets across credit, capital solutions, and venture, Hamed has built one of the most creative and eclectic investing platforms of his generation - financing YouTube creator catalogs, watermelon crops, and Amazon roll-ups before most VCs knew those asset classes existed.