Matt Schulman is the Founder and CEO of Pave, the AI-powered compensation platform he built after watching coworkers at Facebook struggle to understand their own stock options. Starting with a cold email to 200 executives in 2019 (59 replied within 24 hours), he grew Pave into a $1.6 billion company with 3,500+ customers and $471M in total funding - making it the largest compensation data provider for private companies in the world after acquiring Option Impact from Morgan Stanley in 2022.
Jordan Long is the CMO and General Partner at ESO Fund, a San Mateo-based fintech firm that provides non-recourse funding to startup employees seeking to exercise stock options or unlock liquidity from private shares. A Bay Area native with a background in data analytics and mathematical economics from Wake Forest University, Jordan joined ESO Fund in 2018 and has built its marketing engine from the ground up, growing the fund through five vehicles and over $200 million in capital. He co-authors the firm's newsletter 'ESO's Monthly Start-Up' and serves as press contact, blending analytical rigor with editorial instinct in a niche that sits at the intersection of venture capital, tax planning, and employee financial wellness.
Judene Jean-Louis is a Partner at Andreessen Horowitz's Cultural Leadership Fund - the first VC fund comprised exclusively of Black cultural leaders committed to Black wealth generation. A Jamaican immigrant and Brooklyn native who trained professionally as a dancer, she brought dual MFA and MBA credentials to Silicon Valley's most ambitious experiment in cultural capital. At a16z, she bridges world-class entertainers, athletes, and cultural icons with early-stage technology investments, while funneling all management fees and carry back into nonprofits that funnel Black talent into tech.
Yin Wu is the co-founder and CEO of Pulley, a San Francisco-based equity management platform that has raised $50M and serves over 5,000 startups. A four-time founder and three-time Y Combinator alumnus (S11, S13, W20), she previously built Echo, an Android lock screen app that hit 5 million downloads before being acquired by Microsoft in 2015 (becoming Microsoft Launcher). She founded Pulley in 2019 after a short stint building a blockchain project, driven by a mission to give founders the same informational edge on equity that investors have always had.
Silvia Scandar Mahan is the President and CEO of Cristo Rey San José Jesuit High School, a Catholic college-preparatory institution in San Jose's East Side that integrates professional work experience into its curriculum for students from underserved communities. A Harvard economics graduate and Georgetown Law alumna, she came to education through a winding path that took her from Skadden Arps to e-commerce entrepreneurship to social impact filmmaking, before finding her calling advocating for educational equity. Named a 2022 Silicon Valley Business Journal 40 Under 40 honoree and Woman of Influence, she leads a school where 98% of students enroll in college and 100+ corporate partners — from Cisco to NVIDIA to Kaiser Permanente — employ students one day per week to fund up to 50% of their tuition.