Ryan Batra is the VP, Talent Partner at Khosla Ventures, one of Silicon Valley's most influential deep-tech venture firms. A career talent architect with over a decade in hypergrowth tech, he spent six years building DoorDash's technical and executive recruiting machine through multiple phases of explosive expansion, then led recruiting at Lime and OpenStore before landing at Khosla. Now he helps founders across KV's portfolio - spanning AI, biotech, space, and climate - hire the engineers, researchers, and leaders who make bold ideas real. He's placed 500+ engineers and leaders. His philosophy: talent is one of the most powerful forms of leverage a founder has.
Shishir Mehrotra is the CEO of Grammarly and co-founder of Coda, the all-in-one work OS that reinvented the document. A veteran of YouTube (as VP of Product, Engineering & UX), Microsoft, and MIT, he spent a decade rebuilding how teams work before Grammarly acquired Coda in December 2024, handing him the keys to a platform with 40 million daily active users. His intellectual fingerprints are all over Silicon Valley's obsession with meeting design, team rituals, and AI-native productivity.