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Liam McGregor
Liam McGregor is the founder and CEO of Marriage Pact, the campus matchmaking phenomenon he built in 2017 as a Stanford economics class project and turned into a company that has matched hundreds of thousands of students across 100-plus colleges. Trained in computer science and economics, McGregor treats romance as a market-design problem, pairing people on deep values rather than looks or swipes. Before Marriage Pact he was an early team member at self-driving startup Luminar and worked in data science at Microsoft. He is also a competitive classical guitarist and self-described 'closet urbanist.'
Austin Russell
Austin Russell founded Luminar Technologies at 16, built lidar hardware in his parents' garage, dropped out of Stanford after three months on a Thiel Fellowship, and briefly became the world's youngest self-made billionaire at 25 when Luminar went public in December 2020. His company's 1550nm lidar sensors were integrated into production vehicles from Volvo and Mercedes-Benz, representing a rare case of autonomous vehicle hardware reaching mass-market cars. After a highly publicized attempt to acquire Forbes magazine fell through in 2023, Russell resigned as Luminar's CEO in May 2025 following a board ethics inquiry, and the company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in December 2025.