
Jacob Cole is the CEO and cofounder of Ideaflow, a Palo Alto company building intelligence-amplifying software - a notebook and team knowledge platform designed to fuse human thinking with AI. A former MIT Media Lab collective-intelligence researcher who also studied at Oxford, Cole frames Ideaflow as a life mission: a future where 'nobody feels alone with their ideas.' The company has raised more than $10M from First Round Capital, 8VC, StartX, Tim Draper, and Naval, building a human-AI hybrid 'shared brain' for organizations.
Adarsh Hiremath is the Co-Founder and CTO of Mercor, the AI-powered talent marketplace connecting domain experts with AI labs for model training, evaluation, and data creation. At 22, he dropped out of Harvard, received a Thiel Fellowship, and co-built Mercor from a São Paulo hackathon idea into a $10 billion company generating over $500 million in annual revenue - making him one of the world's youngest self-made billionaires alongside co-founders Brendan Foody and Surya Midha.