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Steve Tuck
Steve Tuck is the co-founder and CEO of Oxide Computer Company, a hardware-software startup building a rack-scale 'cloud computer' that brings hyperscaler-style elastic infrastructure to on-premises data centers. After nine years at Dell and roughly a decade at cloud provider Joyent, Tuck teamed with Bryan Cantrill and Jessie Frazelle in 2019 to co-design servers, networking, and software from the ground up. Under his leadership Oxide has shipped its first commercial racks and raised more than half a billion dollars, including a $200M Series C, to expand its take on enterprise cloud ownership.
Brian Brown
Brian Brown is the Chief Business Officer of Brave Software, the privacy-first browser company founded by JavaScript creator Brendan Eich. Since 2016 he has led the business side of Brave's bet to rewire online advertising around consent and the Basic Attention Token (BAT), pitching publishers, brands, and platforms on a model where users get paid for their attention. A veteran startup operator, he co-founded and helped run cloud-computing pioneer Joyent (later acquired by Samsung), founded enterprise and software startups before that, and began his career in journalism and human rights work. He is a Vassar graduate and a marathon runner who likes to quote Aristotle when people ask him about success.