Hemant Taneja

Hemant Taneja is the CEO of General Catalyst, a $40B+ venture capital firm, and one of tech's most unconventional thinkers. Born in Delhi, India, he earned five degrees from MIT before co-founding Livongo Health - sold to Teladoc for $18.5 billion, the largest digital health merger in history. As an early backer of Stripe, Snap, Anthropic, and Canva, and the architect behind GC's audacious move to acquire an actual hospital system, Taneja has spent two decades arguing that building responsibly isn't just the right thing to do - it's the winning strategy. He's signed the Giving Pledge, written four books on technology and capitalism, and is worth an estimated $3.6 billion.