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Gerardo Saborío Molina Built a Career Around the Work Before the Code
Long before AI promised to write the code, Gerardo Saborío Molina was focused on the harder problem: getting people to agree on what the code should do.
Giselle Bisson
Giselle 'Gigi' Bisson is a Silicon Valley go-to-market and narrative strategist who has spent roughly four decades turning breakthrough technology into stories people trust. Trained as a technology journalist at InfoWorld, she moved into product marketing and PR, working on launches at HP, Adobe, Apple, Sun, Citrix and others, and helping take companies through a NASDAQ IPO and acquisitions by Google, Intel and McAfee. She is a partner at Chain Reaction PR, the first female mentor at Founder Institute Silicon Valley where she has guided more than 100 founders, and a writer who publishes on Medium and Substack under the Visibility Shift banner.
Sedarius Perrotta
Sedarius Tekara Perrotta is the co-founder and CEO of Shelf, a New York-based knowledge management and AI data-quality platform. A former Peace Corps volunteer turned serial software entrepreneur, he has spent two decades applying machine learning and NLP to the unglamorous problem of finding the right answer fast - building knowledge systems for the World Bank, Harvard Business School, MIT and Stanford before turning that craft into a company that raised $52.5M in Series B funding led by Tiger Global and Insight Partners.
Adeo Ressi
Adeo Ressi — full name Adeodato Gregory Ressi di Cervia — is an Italian-American entrepreneur, systems architect, and the man who has been manufacturing founders and venture capitalists at scale for over two decades. Born in New York City in 1972, he co-founded one of the internet's first commercial websites (Total New York, sold to AOL), built and sold methodfive for $88 million, created TheFunded to democratize VC transparency, founded the Founder Institute (7,000+ companies across 250+ cities), launched VC Lab (responsible for ~50% of all new VC firms in 2023), and now leads Decile Group as CEO. He pioneered free legal frameworks used by millions of founders (FAST Agreement, Class F Shares, Convertible Equity). He was Elon Musk's college roommate at Penn, tried and failed to talk him out of SpaceX, and has been publicly wrong about exactly one thing. He calls himself a 'societal engineer.' He means it.