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Doug May and the Expensive Space Between Value and Proof
For three decades, Doug May has worked on an awkward question in enterprise software: if a product creates value but the customer cannot measure or defend it, how much is that value really worth? His answer has taken him from carrying a quota to building the systems behind billion-dollar go-to-market teams.
Jyoti Bansal Is Building the Factory After the Code
He waited seven years for permission to start. Then he sold AppDynamics on the eve of its IPO, discovered retirement was a poor fit, and returned to the workbench. Now Harness is his attempt to organize everything that happens after code.
David Snider
David Snider is the founder and CEO of Harness, a New York wealthtech company that pairs people navigating startup equity, taxes, and estate decisions with a curated network of tax, financial, and legal advisers. Before Harness, he was COO and CFO of Compass, where he helped scale the real estate platform from pre-launch to a $1.8 billion valuation and raised every round from Series A through E. Earlier he invested more than $2 billion in deals at Bain Capital private equity and, as a college senior, wrote Money Makers, a finance primer built from interviews with leaders like Jamie Dimon and David Rubenstein.
Sushil Kumar
Sushil Kumar is CEO of Cyara, the AI-powered customer experience assurance platform trusted by global enterprises to test and monitor over 350 million customer interactions annually across 135+ countries. A builder with 25+ years scaling category-defining platforms, he co-founded RelicX.ai (acquired by Harness), scaled Oracle Enterprise Manager into a $1B+ business, and led CA Technologies' $500M AIOps division and Broadcom's $200M+ DevOps portfolio before taking the helm at Cyara in December 2025 to lead the next phase of AI-driven CX assurance.