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Vijay Krishnan Has Spent 20 Years Teaching Machines What Matters
Before AI became the loudest trade in technology, Vijay Krishnan was quietly following the same question from search to recommendations to remote work: how do you turn human judgment into something a machine can use?
Misha Laskin
Misha Laskin is the co-founder and CEO of Reflection AI, a New York lab building open-weight frontier models and autonomous coding agents. A theoretical physicist by training (Yale, University of Chicago), he led reward modeling for Google DeepMind's Gemini and worked in reinforcement learning at Berkeley and DeepMind before launching Reflection in 2024 with AlphaGo co-creator Ioannis Antonoglou. In 2025 the company raised roughly $2 billion at an $8 billion valuation, positioning itself as America's open-source answer to DeepSeek.
Sarah Wang
Sarah Wang is a General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), where she leads growth-stage investments across AI, enterprise applications, and infrastructure. A Harvard and Stanford GSB alumna with rare dual-mode investor instincts - equally comfortable asking 'Is it working?' and 'What if it works?' - she has backed defining companies of the AI era including Cursor, Wiz, Character.ai, Gamma, Decagon, and Thinking Machines Lab, while working closely with a16z's positions in OpenAI, Databricks, SpaceX, SSI, and Figma.