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Inflection AI
Inflection AI is a Palo Alto-based artificial intelligence company, structured as a public benefit corporation, founded in 2022 by Mustafa Suleyman, Reid Hoffman, and Karen Simonyan. Originally known for the empathetic consumer chatbot Pi and its Inflection large language models, the company was reshaped in March 2024 after Microsoft licensed its technology for roughly $650 million and hired most of its team. Under CEO Sean White, Inflection re-founded itself as an enterprise-focused AI provider, selling data-secure, customizable models (Inflection 3.0) that let organizations own their intelligence, data, and infrastructure - including an on-premises appliance developed with Intel.
Every Inc.
Every is a New York-based applied AI lab and media company that bundles a daily AI newsletter, a suite of consumer AI software products, and a consulting arm under one subscription. Founded by Dan Shipper and Nathan Baschez in 2020 as a bundle of business newsletters, it has evolved into an AI-native studio that ships products like Cora (email), Spiral (writing), Sparkle (file organization), and Monologue (voice dictation) - largely built with AI-written code by a team of roughly two dozen people.
Dan Shipper
Dan Shipper is the co-founder and CEO of Every, a New York-based applied AI lab that publishes a daily newsletter read by more than 130,000 builders and ships a bundle of AI software products. He writes Chain of Thought, a weekly column on how AI reshapes work and thinking, and hosts the AI & I podcast. A philosophy major who sold his first company before graduating from Penn, Shipper has become one of the most-read chroniclers of the AI era, arguing that the line between writer and builder is dissolving.
Eric Ly
Eric Ly is a Vietnamese-American entrepreneur and software engineer best known as a founding member and the first CTO of LinkedIn. Born in Saigon and raised in Silicon Valley, he was an early Java engineer at Sun and a product builder at General Magic before helping Reid Hoffman launch LinkedIn in 2002. Today he is co-founder and CEO of KarmaCheck, an AI-forward background check and credentialing company that raised a $45M Series B in 2024, focused on speeding up hiring in healthcare and staffing. Across a 30-year career he has chased one recurring idea: building trust between people online.
Amrit Rao
Amrit Rao is a General Partner at Village Global, the early-stage venture firm backed by Reid Hoffman, Jeff Bezos and a network of luminary LPs. A Stanford-trained biologist turned Wall Street investor turned advanced-manufacturing founder, he writes pre-seed and seed checks across tech and consumer, drawing on a dozen years of public-market investing and the bruises he collected building a furniture startup.