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Olga V. Mack
Olga V. Mack is the CEO of TermScout, an AI-powered contract certification platform that grades contracts as fair, balanced, and market-ready before negotiation even begins. A serial legal-tech CEO and former general counsel, she earlier ran Parley Pro through its 2022 acquisition by LexisNexis and stayed on to lead CounselLink. She is a six-time TEDx speaker, a Stanford CodeX fellow, the Generative AI Editor of the MIT Computational Law Report, an adjunct professor at UC Law SF, and the author of multiple books on boards, blockchain, and legal operations. Born in Ukraine and educated at UC Berkeley, she has spent her career trying to make law less of a bottleneck and more of a service.
Daniel Lewis
Daniel Lewis is the Global CEO of LegalOn Technologies, the most well-funded AI platform for in-house contract review, having raised over $200 million. A Stanford Law grad who co-founded Ravel Law from a Stanford dorm, partnered with Harvard to digitize 360 years of U.S. case law, and then led LexisNexis's Practical Guidance division before taking the helm at LegalOn in 2022. Under his leadership, LegalOn's US and UK business quadrupled, secured a $50M Series E led by Goldman Sachs, and struck a strategic partnership with OpenAI - all while building attorney-curated AI playbooks that help legal teams cut contract review time by up to 85%.
Carolynn Levy
Carolynn Levy is Managing Director of Legal and Partner at Y Combinator, the world's most successful startup accelerator. She revolutionized early-stage venture capital by creating the SAFE (Simple Agreement for Future Equity) in 2013, a five-page document that replaced complex convertible notes and now powers roughly 90% of pre-seed deals. Before joining YC in 2012, she spent over a decade at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati representing Silicon Valley startups and investors. Working alongside her husband Jon Levy, YC co-founder Jessica Livingston, and CFO Kirsty Nathoo, she has guided thousands of founders through legal fundamentals and helped shape the modern startup funding landscape.
Adeo Ressi
Adeo Ressi — full name Adeodato Gregory Ressi di Cervia — is an Italian-American entrepreneur, systems architect, and the man who has been manufacturing founders and venture capitalists at scale for over two decades. Born in New York City in 1972, he co-founded one of the internet's first commercial websites (Total New York, sold to AOL), built and sold methodfive for $88 million, created TheFunded to democratize VC transparency, founded the Founder Institute (7,000+ companies across 250+ cities), launched VC Lab (responsible for ~50% of all new VC firms in 2023), and now leads Decile Group as CEO. He pioneered free legal frameworks used by millions of founders (FAST Agreement, Class F Shares, Convertible Equity). He was Elon Musk's college roommate at Penn, tried and failed to talk him out of SpaceX, and has been publicly wrong about exactly one thing. He calls himself a 'societal engineer.' He means it.