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Tommaso Demarie and the art of correcting mistakes
A physicist leaves academia, starts a company in Singapore, and learns to love the problem. For Entropica Labs co-founder Tommaso Demarie, useful quantum computing begins with getting the errors under control.
Connor Waslo Is Teaching AI the Fine Art of Leaving You Alone
The Caddy co-founder went from coding through class to cutting a polished feature. His current product thesis is disarmingly simple: a useful assistant knows when to act, when to ask and when to keep quiet.
Atlassian
Two Sydney graduates put $10,000 on credit cards in 2002 and built the software that runs the world's software teams. Today Atlassian's Jira, Confluence, and AI teammate Rovo power more than 300,000 companies - without ever relying on a traditional sales force.
Entropica Labs
Entropica Labs is a Singapore-based quantum software company building the infrastructure layer between quantum hardware and applications. Its tools - the Loom framework, Entwine visual IDE, and Quilt packager - let engineers design, validate, compile and deploy fault-tolerant quantum circuits with quantum error correction. Founded in 2018, the company works with hardware and control-stack makers including Xanadu, Quantum Machines, Rigetti and Quobly to close the programmability gap that stands between today's noisy qubits and useful, error-corrected quantum computers.
Greg Strickland
Greg Strickland is the CEO of Ignition, a Sydney-founded revenue operations platform used by over 7,500 professional services businesses globally. A Silicon Valley veteran with 20+ years of experience scaling SaaS companies, Greg helped grow Box from 18 employees to a publicly traded enterprise, served as COO at Periscope Data and Productboard, and advised startups including Loom, Preset, and Grain before joining Ignition as Global President in 2024. In his first year he drove a 50% year-over-year revenue increase in North America, and in early 2025 he stepped up as CEO as co-founder Guy Pearson moved to Executive Chairman.
Josh Coyne
Josh Coyne is a Partner at Kleiner Perkins, one of Silicon Valley's most storied venture capital firms, where he has backed category-defining companies including Figma, Rippling, Loom, UiPath, and Synthesia since joining in 2017. A summa cum laude Boston College graduate in Computer Science and Finance, Coyne cut his teeth at Qatalyst Partners advising on multi-billion dollar tech M&A before pivoting to backing founders himself. He focuses on enterprise software, applied AI, fintech, and data infrastructure - and co-hosts Kleiner Perkins' Grit podcast, where he probes founders on product-market fit and go-to-market strategy. Originally from Cleveland, fluent in French, and apparently devoted to Chick-fil-A.
Shahed Khan
Shahed Khan is the co-founder of Loom, the async video messaging platform that grew from a Chrome extension to 25 million users across 350,000+ companies before being acquired by Atlassian for $975 million in 2023. A Thiel Fellow and Forbes 30 Under 30 honoree, Khan started his entrepreneurial journey at 16 in suburban Chicago, founding Viatask before connecting with Joe Thomas and Vinay Hiremath to build Loom through two pivots and years of near-failure. He now lives in New York City, angel-investing in 40+ companies and staying active in the startup ecosystem.