Daniel Villegas is Co-Founder and COO of Domestika, the world's fastest-growing online learning community for creative professionals. Starting from a scrappy Spanish-language forum in 2002, Daniel helped steer Domestika into a $1.3 billion unicorn with over 10 million members worldwide. Based in New York, he brings over two decades of experience across e-commerce, digital marketing, SEO, and startup operations — including earlier ventures as co-founder of Webpop and founder of Infohostal.com — making him one of the key architects of a platform that has trained millions of designers, illustrators, photographers, and creators globally.
Julio G. Cotorruelo is the co-founder and CEO of Domestika, the global online learning community for creative professionals. Starting in 2002 as a modest Spanish-language forum for designers in Madrid, Domestika grew under his leadership into a unicorn valued at $1.3 billion, with over 8 million members, 2,000+ courses, and a presence in six languages. A notoriously press-shy entrepreneur, Cotorruelo built one of the world's largest creative education platforms by championing affordable, pay-per-course learning and the belief that creativity is best learned through doing - not just reading.
Henrique Andrade is the CEO and co-founder of CEFIS, Brazil's largest corporate education platform for accounting, tax, and labor law professionals. Founded in Goiânia in 2013 and launched in 2014, CEFIS has scaled to over 400,000 students and 5,000+ courses, reaching its first million reais in revenue within 14 months. Under Andrade's leadership, CEFIS expanded internationally to Redwood City, California in 2018, inspired by Silicon Valley's best practices in e-learning and talent management. Based in San Francisco, Andrade blends a meritocracy-driven culture - drawing inspiration from Goldman Sachs and the 3G Group - with a Google-style workplace designed to attract top engineering talent.
David Siteman Garland (DSG) is a St. Louis-based entrepreneur, author, and online course pioneer who turned a Bar Mitzvah savings account into a multi-million dollar media and education empire. Founder of The Rise To The Top — self-branded as 'The #1 Non-Boring Resource For Building Your Business Smarter, Faster, Cheaper' — he has generated $10M+ in online course sales, built an email list of 85,000+ subscribers, and taught 5,000+ students in 100+ countries through his flagship program Create Awesome Online Courses. A Wiley-published author, Inc. 500 honoree (#938, 2017), and co-founder of software companies Course Cats and Nrdly, DSG is also the founder of STL Maccabi Basketball and grandson of cancer research philanthropist Alvin J. Siteman.
Jack Butcher is a British-born graphic designer and entrepreneur who turned a $58 bank balance into a $1M+ annual business by packaging visual thinking into a personal media brand called Visualize Value. A former advertising creative director for Bloomberg and SapientNitro, he left agency life in 2018 to build a one-person empire of minimalist black-and-white visuals that distill complex business and life concepts into a single image. His signature framework, 'Build Once, Sell Twice,' made productizing expertise into digital products a mainstream creator strategy. He extended this philosophy into the NFT space, launching Checks VV (which surpassed Bored Ape Yacht Club in daily trading volume) and Opepen Edition (with $240M+ in total trading volume), earning exhibitions at Christie's, Sotheby's, and Art Basel.
Louie Bacaj is an Albanian-American software engineer turned entrepreneur who climbed from immigrant poverty in the Bronx to Senior Director of Engineering at Walmart, then walked away from it all in 2021 to build a portfolio of small bets. He co-founded the Small Bets learning community with Daniel Vassallo, runs the M&Ms Newsletter on Substack with 9,000+ subscribers, and teaches engineers how to level up their careers and build income outside the 9-to-5. His philosophy: make money with bits, diversify into atoms.
Daniel Bourke is an Australian machine learning engineer, educator, and content creator who teaches over 230,000 students worldwide through the Zero to Mastery Academy. Operating under the brand 'mrdbourke', he built a self-designed AI education path from a film degree and zero coding experience, and now creates courses on PyTorch, TensorFlow, and Hugging Face. He co-founded Nutrify, an AI-powered food tracking app, with his brother Joshua, and published his debut novel 'Charlie Walks' in 2024. His newsletter 'Eat, Move, Learn, Make' blends personal philosophy with technical insight.
Josh W Comeau is a Montreal-based frontend developer, indie course creator, and one of the most beloved CSS and React educators on the internet. After stints at Unsplash, Shopify, Khan Academy, and Gatsby, he left corporate engineering in 2020 to build interactive, deeply original courses that generated over $550,000 in presale revenue. His CSS for JavaScript Developers and The Joy of React courses have taught more than 28,000 developers through a teaching style that blends interactive widgets, mini-games, and the rare gift of building genuine mental models rather than just showing code.
Wes Bos is a full-stack JavaScript developer, educator, and course creator from Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. He has taught over 500,000 developers worldwide through his free and paid online courses covering JavaScript, CSS, React, and Node.js. His flagship free course JavaScript30 has over 682,000 enrollments. He co-hosts the popular web development podcast Syntax.fm with Scott Tolinski and CJ Reynolds. His course business has generated over $10M in revenue, largely as a solo operation with a free-tier marketing strategy that has built a massive, loyal audience.