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Wonjun Jeong
Wonjun Jeong is the co-founder and CEO of Supermove, a San Francisco software company that replaces the paper contracts and typewriters still common in the moving industry with a single cloud platform for sales, dispatch, scheduling, signatures, payments, and payroll. A UC Berkeley computer science graduate who wrote code at Facebook and Pinterest, he started Supermove in 2019 after moving 21 times and watching movers scratch his credit card number into a paper form with a fingernail. The company raised an $18 million Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz in 2022 and works with more than 100 moving and storage firms.
Pinterest is a visual discovery and inspiration platform where people find and save ideas for projects and interests, from recipes and home decor to fashion and travel. Founded in 2010 and headquartered in San Francisco, it lets users organize images called Pins into themed collections called boards, and increasingly acts as a shopping-and-discovery engine powered by visual search and AI. Publicly traded on the NYSE, Pinterest reached roughly 631 million monthly active users and $4.2 billion in 2025 revenue, earning nearly all of that from advertising.
Leon Lin
Leon Lin is the co-founder and CEO of 1stCollab, a Y Combinator-backed (W23) influencer marketing platform that automates and performance-optimizes creator campaigns end to end. Before founding the company in 2022, he spent nine years at Pinterest, rising to Head of Discovery Product where he led Home, Search, and recommendations surfaces. A Stanford computer scientist who taught the school's flagship CS courses, Leon now applies machine learning to predict which creators will actually convert for brands. He also writes 'Avoid Boring People,' a finance-and-tech newsletter read by thousands.
Stephanie Doppelt
Stephanie Doppelt is Partner of Executive Talent at Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), one of Silicon Valley's most influential venture capital firms. She brings two decades of recruiting expertise spanning elite executive search firms - Korn Ferry, Spencer Stuart, and Heidrick & Struggles - and six years as Pinterest's first business recruiter, where she built hiring infrastructure from the ground up. At a16z, she helps portfolio companies find and place senior leadership talent, authoring practical guides on hiring CROs, CMOs, and Chief Customer Officers. She holds a BS in Industrial Engineering from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo and is known for her mentorship of transitioning military veterans.
Connie Chan
Connie Chan is a venture capitalist and technology writer who spent 12 years at Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), becoming the firm's first-ever internally promoted General Partner in 2018. Known as 'Silicon Valley's China Whisperer,' she made her mark by translating Asian tech trends - super apps, social commerce, livestream shopping - into investment theses before Western founders even knew the terms. Her 2015 WeChat essay won the New York Times Sidney Award and predicted the app-consolidation wave that would reshape mobile over the following decade. She backed Pinterest early, championed Lime before scooters were cool, and holds board seats at Whatnot, KoBold Metals, and Cider. In January 2024, after 12 years at a16z, she stepped back from GP duties to pursue a new Asia-focused venture.
Jeff Jordan
Jeff Jordan is a General Partner (now semi-retired) at Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), where he spent over a decade backing marketplace and consumer companies including Airbnb, Pinterest, and Instacart. A rare operator-turned-investor, he was President of PayPal, CEO of OpenTable (steering its 2009 IPO through the financial crisis), and SVP at eBay where he oversaw the acquisitions of PayPal and Half.com. His framework on marketplace dynamics - built from running some of the most important digital marketplaces in history - became a foundational body of thinking in Silicon Valley.
Casey Winters
Casey Winters is a co-founder and CEO of SuperMe, an AI-native professional network backed by Greylock and Reid Hoffman. He is one of the most respected growth and product operators in Silicon Valley, having scaled Grubhub from 40,000 customers in 3 cities to 3 million users in 1,000+ cities, then led Pinterest's growth from 40 million to 400 million users, and later served as CPO of Eventbrite through a pandemic that wiped out the live events industry. A longtime Reforge program partner and prolific writer at caseyaccidental.com, Winters is known for first-principles thinking, blunt contrarianism, and a deep aversion to cargo-cult growth frameworks.
Sarah Tavel
Sarah Tavel is a venture investor and product thinker best known as the first female General Partner at Benchmark Capital, one of Silicon Valley's most prestigious and selective VC firms. Before Benchmark, she led core discovery products at Pinterest during its hypergrowth years, having first backed the company as a VC at Bessemer Venture Partners. She is the creator of widely-cited frameworks including the Hierarchy of Marketplaces, Happy GMV, and the 'Sell Work, Not Software' thesis for AI startups. As of April 2025, she transitioned to Venture Partner at Benchmark, focusing on AI tools at the edge and broader exploratory work.