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Emil Eifrem
Emil Eifrem is the co-founder and CEO of Neo4j, the company he built from a cocktail-napkin sketch on a 2000 flight to Mumbai into the world's leading graph database platform. He coined the term 'graph database,' developed the property graph model, and has guided Neo4j to a $2.2B valuation, over $200M in annual revenue, and adoption by 84 of the Fortune 100. Beyond enterprise metrics, he launched the Graphs4Good program channeling graph technology toward cancer research, pandemic supply chains, and investigative journalism — most famously the Panama Papers investigation that won the Pulitzer Prize and toppled Iceland's government.
Coffeezilla
Stephen Findeisen, known online as Coffeezilla, is an American investigative YouTuber and crypto journalist who built a 4.5M+ subscriber audience by exposing pump-and-dump tokens, fake gurus, celebrity grift, and high-profile fraud cases including FTX, CryptoZoo, and Save the Kids.
Brian Merchant
Brian Merchant is a Los Angeles-based journalist, author, and newsletter writer who covers the collision between technology, labor, and power. He is best known for his 2023 book 'Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech' — a critically acclaimed history of the Luddites that Wired called 'the most important book to read about the AI boom' — and for his national bestseller 'The One Device: The Secret History of the iPhone' (2017). His Substack newsletter, also called Blood in the Machine, has grown to 39,000+ subscribers and is dedicated to reporting on AI, automation, and the workers bearing the brunt of Silicon Valley's ambitions. In 2024, he became the first technology journalist admitted to Omidyar Network's Reporters in Residence program and joined the AI Now Institute as Journalist in Residence.
Glenn Greenwald
Glenn Greenwald is an American journalist, author, and former constitutional lawyer who broke the world's most consequential surveillance story - Edward Snowden's NSA revelations - earning a Pulitzer Prize and an Oscar-winning documentary. After co-founding The Intercept and exposing judicial corruption in Brazil, he now runs 'System Update,' an independent nightly show on Rumble, where he delivers unfiltered political commentary captive to no institutional master. He lives in Rio de Janeiro with his two adopted sons and 20+ rescue dogs.
Laura Shin
Laura Shin is the leading voice in crypto journalism - host of the Unchained podcast, author of The Cryptopians, and founder of Unchained Crypto. A Stanford and Columbia-educated journalist, she was the first mainstream reporter to cover cryptocurrency full-time, amassing 25+ million downloads and solving one of crypto's biggest mysteries: the 2016 Ethereum DAO hack.