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Sarah Kinsley
She plays piano, violin, synth and the rare ondes Martenot - and she produces every note herself. Here is how a Columbia student turned a viral song called 'The King' into a career built entirely on her own terms.
Ian Asher
He was the first DJ to go big on TikTok, then a French singer's decade-old song became his loudest moment. Ian Asher on trusting his gut, ignoring the noise, and building a career that outlasts the algorithm.
Robert Frederick
Robert Frederick is the founder, CEO and President of Sirqul, Inc., a Seattle IoT company built around an Engagement-as-a-Service platform of hundreds of APIs and patented edge devices. An MIT Media Lab alum and TR35 honoree with 41 issued patents, he helped launch Amazon Anywhere and co-founded Amazon Web Services and the AWS Marketplace before scaling the voice startup Snapvine past 5 million users. He is also an author and music producer.
David Katznelson
David Katznelson is a Grammy-nominated music producer turned cultural entrepreneur who runs Reboot, the nonprofit network of 650-plus Jewish and Jew-ish creatives that reimagines Jewish life through arts and culture. A former Warner Bros. Records A&R vice president who signed and worked with The Flaming Lips, Mudhoney and Nick Cave, he founded the independent label Birdman Records, co-founded the Idelsohn Society for Musical Preservation and San Francisco's all-night DAWN Shavuot festival, and in 2022 launched Reboot Studios to give early-stage funding to new Jewish stories across film, theater, music and television. He still writes The Signal, a Substack about the records the world loved and lost.
Dagogo Altraide
Dagogo Altraide is the creator and narrator behind ColdFusion, a YouTube channel with over 5 million subscribers known for deep-dive documentaries on technology, science, and business history. Born in Mumbai to Nigerian parents and raised across multiple countries before settling in Perth, Australia, Altraide built ColdFusion from a 2007 smartphone review channel into one of the internet's most respected educational documentary platforms - all while remaining largely faceless on screen. He is also a published author, music producer (under the alias Burn Water), and co-host of the Through The Web Podcast.
Jake One
Jake One (Jacob Brian Dutton, born May 11, 1976) is a Seattle-bred hip-hop producer whose beats have moved from underground cult status to pop-culture ubiquity - he's the man behind John Cena's WWE entrance theme 'The Time Is Now,' the iconic De La Soul / MF DOOM collaboration 'Rock Co.Kane Flow,' and production credits across albums by Drake, J. Cole, The Weeknd, 50 Cent, Freeway, Brother Ali, Travis Scott, and dozens more. Operating under the Snare Jordan brand, he has released solo instrumental albums, collaborated on the funk duo Tuxedo with Mayer Hawthorne (Stones Throw Records), and built a parallel career as a sample-kit and beat-tutorial educator. He remains one of hip-hop's most versatile and quietly prolific producers, still releasing acclaimed work in 2024-2025.
Matthias Wagner
Matthias Wagner is the German-born co-founder and CEO of Flux, the San Francisco-based AI hardware design platform that turns text prompts into production-ready circuit boards in a single browser tab. Before Flux, he produced the Crazy Frog 'Axel F' ringtone that accumulated nearly 3.8 billion YouTube views, led product teams at Facebook for Moments, AR ads, and Oculus VR, and built digital signage company 42 media group out of a friend's garage at age 24. He founded Flux in 2019 out of frustration that hardware tooling had not evolved in decades, and by 2026 had grown the platform to over 1 million sign-ups and raised $37 million in funding led by 8VC.
Don Vaughn
Don Vaughn, Ph.D. is the Co-Founder and CEO of Ampa Health, a Palo Alto-based neurotechnology company building FDA-cleared portable TMS (transcranial magnetic stimulation) devices that compress 36 days of depression treatment into a single day. A Stanford-educated physicist turned UCLA neuroscientist, Vaughn has built a career at the intersection of brain science, machine learning, and accessibility - detoured, notably, through a DJ career that landed him a #28 iTunes Dance chart hit featuring Nick Lachey. His TEDx talk on neurohacking has surpassed one million views. Ampa raised an oversubscribed $8.5M pre-A round in October 2025, achieved FDA clearance for its Ampa One device in February 2025, and is targeting 5,000 patient remissions by end of 2026 - with a long-term audacious goal of a billion remissions in ten years.
Ozuna
Ozuna (Juan Carlos Ozuna Rosado) is Puerto Rico's reigning melodic reggaeton king — the artist who spent more consecutive weeks at No. 1 on Billboard's Top Latin Albums than any male in history, held four Guinness World Records simultaneously, and became the most-viewed artist on YouTube globally in 2018. Raised by his grandmother above a San Juan bodega after losing his father at age three, he turned hardship into a sonic empire spanning seven studio albums, 23+ million Instagram followers, and collaborations with Cardi B, Selena Gomez, DJ Snake, and Rosalía. His smooth melodic tenor and genre-fluid approach — blending reggaeton, melodic trap, Afrobeats, and Latin pop — have made him a defining voice of the streaming era.