Jesse Zhang is the 28-year-old co-founder and CEO of Decagon, a San Francisco-based enterprise AI company valued at $4.5 billion that builds autonomous AI agents for customer service. A Harvard Computer Science graduate who sold his first startup Lowkey to Niantic, Zhang pivoted to enterprise AI in 2023 when GPT-4 arrived, spending months in customer discovery interviews before writing a single line of code. In under two years, he scaled Decagon from stealth to unicorn status, raised $481M total, landed clients like Duolingo, Notion, Hertz, and Deutsche Telekom, and made Forbes 30 Under 30. He is also a Grandmaster-ranked Teamfight Tactics player, a competition math problem author, and an angel investor in 20+ startups.
Diana Hu is a General Partner at Y Combinator, where she has conducted over 1,700 office hours advising portfolio companies now worth a combined $1.7 billion. A Chilean-born engineer of Chinese descent, she co-founded Escher Reality in 2016, built the infrastructure for cross-platform multi-user AR experiences through YC's S17 batch, and sold the company to Niantic (makers of Pokemon GO) in 2018. She then led Niantic's AR Platform engineering before transitioning to investing, becoming one of the rare founders-turned-top-tier-VCs with deep technical chops in augmented reality, computer vision, and machine learning.
Gilman Louie is a fourth-generation Chinese-American entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and national security strategist who built the CIA's venture capital arm In-Q-Tel from scratch, co-founded Alsop Louie Partners, and now leads America's Frontier Fund — a nonprofit deep-tech investment vehicle aimed at securing U.S. technological leadership against China. Before any of that, he was the video game pioneer who brought Tetris to the West and built the Falcon F-16 flight simulator so realistic it trained actual Air National Guard pilots.