Yi Wang is the co-founder and CEO of Liulishuo (LingoChamp / LAIX), the Shanghai-based company that built one of the world's first AI-powered English teachers. A Princeton PhD and ex-Google product manager, he returned to China in 2011 and shipped an app that climbed to the top of China's App Store within months, eventually serving tens of millions of learners and taking the company public on the NYSE in 2018.
Jim Douglas is a five-time CEO and seasoned enterprise technology executive now leading Luciq (formerly Instabug) as it pioneers the category of Agentic Mobile Observability. With over 30 years of executive experience — including transforming Wind River from a flat-growth embedded software company into a half-billion-dollar enterprise — Douglas brings a rare combination of go-to-market expertise and operational scale to a startup that counts DoorDash, T-Mobile, Verizon, and Disney among its customers. Appointed CEO in February 2025, he oversaw Instabug's September 2025 rebrand to Luciq.ai, signaling a shift from passive monitoring to AI agents that autonomously detect, diagnose, and fix mobile app issues.
Jesse Pickard is the Founder and CEO of The Mind Company (formerly Elevate Labs), the studio behind Elevate (Apple's App of the Year 2014), Balance (Google's App of the Year 2021), and Spark - a portfolio of science-backed mental fitness apps with over 80 million downloads. A designer-turned-entrepreneur, Pickard co-founded language learning startup MindSnacks in 2010 before pivoting to build Elevate in 2014, pioneering the consumer mental fitness category. He is also an Investing Partner at Volo Ventures.
Bob Kupbens is the Chief Executive Officer of StubHub International, the world's largest ticket marketplace, a role he assumed in January 2024. A seasoned digital commerce executive with an MIT engineering pedigree and Michigan MBA, Kupbens has spent three decades reshaping how consumers interact with major brands - from launching the Fly Delta mobile app at Delta Air Lines to running Apple's global online retail operation to orchestrating the ADT-Google partnership. Now based in Madrid while living in Millbrae, California, he is focused on deploying AI-driven customer experience improvements and defending StubHub International's position in key markets like the UK.
John Lai is a Taiwanese-Australian entrepreneur and the Founder & CEO of MixerBox, a Palo Alto-based AI super-apps company backed by Y Combinator. A former competitive programmer who won the Australian Championship and a silver medal at the ICPC world finals, Lai parlayed his University of New South Wales computer engineering degree (with First Class Honours and the University Medal) and a Harvard master's degree into building MixerBox in 2012. The company's portfolio of daily-essential mobile apps has surpassed 300 million downloads worldwide, and MixerBox became the largest developer in the ChatGPT Plugin Store by plugin count. Investors include Y Combinator, Adam D'Angelo (Facebook's first CTO, Quora CEO), and Paul Buchheit (Gmail creator).
Libby Roin is the CEO of Goodreads, the world's largest social reading platform with over 150 million members. A Boston College English major turned MIT Sloan MBA, she spent nearly a decade building her way up through Goodreads product teams before taking the top job in January 2022. Along the way she founded Polk Street Press, a children's interactive app studio, and raised over $10 million for Teach for America. She grew up one of seven kids in Oklahoma - daughter of a police officer and a schoolteacher - and brings a pragmatic, community-first sensibility to one of the internet's most beloved book destinations.
Siddharth Jhunjhunwala is the Founder and CEO of Web Spiders Group and co-founder of SpiderX AI, a San Francisco-based enterprise AI company he has been building since 2000. Starting his entrepreneurial journey in 1995 with network solutions out of Kolkata, he has grown Web Spiders into a 290-person global operation spanning San Jose, London, Singapore, and India, known for products like Gecko (an emotion-sensing AI recruiter that appeared on BBC One's The One Show), e2m.live (an enterprise event management platform), and SpiderX's conversational AI suite used across banking, retail, and government sectors.
Usman Pervaiz is the CEO and co-founder of Tekxai, a San Francisco-based digital innovation studio that builds AI-powered MVPs and custom software for startups and enterprises. With over a decade in tech, he leads a ~56-person team delivering full-stack web and mobile products with a signature 6-week build methodology, serving founders backed by Y Combinator and Techstars.
David Lieb is a General Partner at Y Combinator who co-founded Bump - the app that let phones share data by physically bumping together, reaching 150 million users before being acquired by Google in 2013. After the acquisition, his team's unreleased photo-sharing project became Google Photos, which Lieb led as Senior Director for nine years until it reached over 1 billion users. Now at YC, he mentors early-stage founders drawing on his rare trifecta of experience: consumer hit, big-tech product leadership, and venture capital.
Andrew Gazdecki is a serial entrepreneur and the founder and CEO of Acquire.com (formerly MicroAcquire), a marketplace that makes buying and selling startups as accessible as selling a car online. He sold his first company at 20 for $100K, built Bizness Apps into a 100-person SaaS company before selling it for $20M+, survived an Apple App Store near-extinction event via a cold email to Tim Cook, and then turned his own acquisition experience into a platform that has now helped 2,000+ founders exit, closing over $500M in deals across 100+ countries.
Rosie Hoggmascall is a London-based product and growth expert specialising in subscription apps, monetisation, and product-led growth. With a Cambridge education and a career spanning strategic communications to leading consumer tech startups, she is currently Chief Product & Growth Officer at Fyxer AI - an email productivity tool that grew from $1M to $30M ARR in 2025. She also runs 'Growth Dives', a weekly Substack newsletter delivering annotated product teardowns to 2,000+ subscribers with a remarkable 64% average open rate.