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Scopely Spent Seven Years Learning How to Roll the Dice - Then Built a $6 Billion Hit
The first Monopoly concept did not work. Seven years, a full reset and more than $1 billion in marketing later, Scopely had a mobile phenomenon - and a playbook for buying the rest of the board.
Linda Gray Put Twenty Years of Software Into the Repair Bay
She went from a teenage Knicks fan site to Microsoft, Pokémon GO, and an AI company built for independent garages. Now Mastertech.ai has a new owner, and Linda Gray’s next job is making sure the hard-won memory of the repair bay travels with it.
Diana Hu
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
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.