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Mario Ciabarra Built a Unicorn by Watching Where the Internet Hurts
Before dashboards, funding rounds, and agentic AI, Mario Ciabarra learned a simpler lesson in a clothing store: frustration is obvious when you can see the customer. His career has been an attempt to give the internet that same pair of eyes.
Todd Olson Keeps Going Back to the Product
The Pendo founder built his third company around a lesson his first two ventures made impossible to ignore: prove that people use the product before scaling the story.
Shubham Palriwala
Shubham Palriwala is the co-founder and CEO of Agnost AI (YC S26), a startup building the self-improving layer for AI agents in production. A backend engineer by trade, he was the youngest engineer on Cisco's analytics team and the first hire at open-source survey company Formbricks before teaming up with childhood friend Parth Ajmera to read production AI conversations and automatically ship fixes back to the agents that generate them.
James Hawkins
James Hawkins is the co-founder and co-CEO of PostHog, the open-source product analytics platform built for engineers. He pivoted five times inside Y Combinator's W20 batch before landing on PostHog, then turned a Hacker News launch and a single tweet into a developer cult following and a $1.4 billion valuation. A former marketing operator and self-described 'very bad developer,' Hawkins runs PostHog on radical transparency, tiny autonomous teams, and a refusal to be boring.
Matthew Arbesfeld
Matthew Arbesfeld is the CEO and co-founder of LogRocket, the Boston-based frontend monitoring and product analytics company he built with his lifelong best friend Ben Edelstein. The two met as one-month-old infants on a parental playdate and have been building software together ever since. A Thiel Fellow who dropped out of MIT in 2015, Arbesfeld first launched a developer deployment tool called AppHub before pivoting to LogRocket, the 'DVR for bugs' that lets engineering teams replay exactly what users did before something broke. LogRocket has raised about $55 million total, monitors billions of user sessions, and in 2026 launched Ask Galileo, an AI layer that answers plain-English questions about user experience.
Josiah Ong
Josiah Ong is a Senior Deal Desk Analyst at Mixpanel, the San Francisco-based product analytics platform. A National University of Singapore graduate with First Class Honours in Business Administration, he brings over five years of deal desk and sales strategy expertise - spanning LinkedIn's Asia-Pacific channel partner network and Mixpanel's global commercial operations. Known for his advocacy around inclusion and awareness, Josiah combines analytical rigour with a genuine commitment to people and community.