Hannah Witton is a British and German YouTuber, broadcaster, and author who built a 14-year career talking frankly about sex, relationships and bodies online. In 2024 she pivoted away from sex-ed and now mentors other creators, writes the Creator Talks newsletter, and makes lifestyle videos about parenthood, books, and theatre.
Jarvis Allen Johnson is a Los Angeles based YouTuber and podcaster who left a senior engineering role at Patreon to make commentary videos about content farms, dating shows, and the strange edges of the internet. He co-hosts the Sad Boyz podcast with Jordan Adika, runs eight YouTube channels with a combined audience over four million, and was named to Forbes 30 Under 30 for social media in 2021.
Philipp Dettmer is the founder, CEO, and head writer of Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell, the Munich-based animation studio and YouTube channel with over 25 million subscribers and 3.6 billion views. Starting as a university passion project in 2013, Kurzgesagt has grown into a 70-person studio that transforms dense scientific, philosophical, and technological ideas into visually stunning, widely-shared short films. Dettmer is also the author of 'Immune: A Journey Into the Mysterious System That Keeps You Alive' (2021) and co-creator of the video game Star Birds, launched in early access in September 2025.
Jenny Lefcourt is a General Partner at Freestyle VC, a San Francisco-based seed-stage venture capital firm with $565M+ AUM. A serial entrepreneur who dropped out of Stanford GSB to co-found WeddingChannel.com (backed by Kleiner Perkins), she later co-founded Bella Pictures before transitioning to venture capital in 2014. She has since backed iconic companies including Airtable, Patreon, BetterUp, and Intercom, earned spots on the Forbes Midas Seed List and Forbes 50 Over 50, and co-founded All Raise, the nonprofit accelerating female founders and funders in tech.
James Currier is a five-time founder turned General Partner at NFX, a $1.5B seed-stage venture firm built on a single thesis: network effects drive 70% of all value created in tech. He built Tickle into the 18th most-visited website in the world, pioneered viral marketing and A/B testing before those terms existed, and has since co-founded NFX with Pete Flint, Gigi Levy-Weiss, and Morgan Beller to back the next generation of network-effect-driven companies. An angel in DoorDash, Lyft, and Patreon, he is also the author of the Network Effects Bible and a speaker who translated an arcane econ concept into the operating language of Silicon Valley.
Saar Gur is a General Partner at CRV (Charles River Ventures), one of Silicon Valley's oldest venture firms, where he has backed some of the most iconic consumer and SMB software companies of the past decade. Before turning investor, he co-founded BrightRoll, the video ad network that Yahoo acquired for $640 million. Known for betting early on 'weird' ideas before the world caught up, his portfolio includes DoorDash (seed in 2013), Patreon, Ring, Dropbox, Airtable, Mercury, and Niantic. He has ranked on the Forbes Midas List (#22 in 2023), taught at Stanford's StartupGarage, and summits mountains with founders for fun.
Joanna Penn is a British author, podcaster, and entrepreneur who turned a miserable IT consulting career into a multi-six-figure independent publishing empire. Writing thrillers as J.F. Penn and teaching the business of writing as Joanna Penn, she has sold over a million books across 176 countries, runs one of the world's top 1% podcasts (10.6M+ downloads), and is among the most prominent voices on ethical AI adoption in the creative community. Based in Bath, England, she competes in powerlifting, pursues a Masters in Death, Religion and Culture, and embodies her own mantra: measure your life by what you create.
Riley Testut is an American indie iOS developer best known for creating GBA4iOS, Delta, and AltStore - tools that collectively redefined what's possible outside Apple's walled garden. Starting at age 13 with a Game Boy emulator built from scratch using Microsoft Paint graphics, Riley spent a decade fighting Apple's restrictions before seeing Delta hit #1 on the App Store in 2024 and launching the first EU-approved third-party iOS marketplace. His work forced Apple to change its App Store rules - twice - without a single lobbyist, just relentless building.
Anne Helen Petersen is an American journalist, culture critic, and author best known for her newsletter Culture Study and her book 'Can't Even: How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation.' Holding a PhD in Media Studies from UT Austin, she went from academic celebrity-gossip historian to BuzzFeed News Senior Culture Writer before launching one of Substack's most-read newsletters. She writes about the structural forces — work culture, consumerism, loneliness, burnout — that shape everyday life, blending academic rigor with deeply personal, accessible prose. She now lives on Lummi Island, Washington, with her partner Charlie Warzel and their dogs.