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The Godfather of Revenue Recognition Is Not Done Yet
He built the first revenue recognition software in 2009, sold it to Zuora, then walked away to do it again - properly this time. A story about second acts in an unglamorous corner of accounting.
Vinay Patankar
Vinay Patankar is the co-founder and CEO of Process Street, an AI-powered workflow and compliance operations platform used by thousands of companies to run recurring checklists, onboarding, and standard operating procedures. A three-time founder and Y Combinator alum (W15), he was the youngest Cisco engineer in Australia at 16, left Sydney at 24 with a copy of The 4-Hour Workweek, and spent roughly a decade as a digital nomad building remote-first businesses before Process Street. The company has raised about $15M from Accel, Salesforce Ventures, and Atlassian and has been remote since day one.
Sean Williams
Sean Williams is the British founder and CEO of AutogenAI, a generative-AI platform that drafts winning bids and proposals up to eight times faster than humans. A Cambridge philosophy graduate who studied logic and feminist philosophy, he spent a decade designing large-scale public employment programs before building and selling the training company Corndel for a reported 47 million pounds. He launched AutogenAI in late 2021, shipped its first product in September 2022, and raised more than 60 million dollars across Series A and B rounds backed by Salesforce Ventures, Spark Capital and Blossom Capital. Off the clock he is a serious open-level backgammon player and a collector of rare guitars.
Keith Putnam-Delaney
Keith Putnam-Delaney is the co-founder and CEO of Primer, a San Francisco B2B marketing intelligence platform that turns work-email lists into ad-platform audiences, enriches leads, and orchestrates campaigns across ad networks, social, and sales tools. A former high-school history teacher who became a growth marketer at Dropbox and Eden before founding Primer, he built the company from a consulting hunch into a venture-backed startup that raised a $12M Series A in 2022.
Sandeep Panda
Sandeep Panda is the Co-Founder and CTO of Hashnode, a developer-first blogging and community platform that lets software engineers own their content and publish on custom domains. Founded in 2016 alongside Syed Fazle Rahman, Hashnode has grown to serve 3M+ monthly readers and 10M+ monthly views, backed by Sequoia Capital India's Surge, Salesforce Ventures, and angel investors including Naval Ravikant and Guillermo Rauch (Vercel). A graduate of IIIT Bhubaneswar with a background in web development and technical writing, Sandeep has authored books on AngularJS and HTML5, and is now building Bug0, an AI-native end-to-end testing platform.
Matt Garratt
Matt Garratt is a General Partner at U.S. Venture Partners (USVP) in Menlo Park, California, where he focuses on enterprise SaaS and AI investments. A former first employee at Salesforce Ventures — where he built one of tech's most successful corporate venture arms with 100+ investments and $2B+ in returns, including Zoom, Snowflake, Twilio, and MuleSoft — Garratt brings a rare combination of engineering rigor (materials science from Purdue), policy experience (UN clean energy work), and two decades of venture investing to back the next generation of AI-native companies.
Matthew Darrow
Matthew Darrow is the CEO and co-founder of Vivun, the pioneer of AI-powered presales software that has raised $131 million to transform how B2B companies manage their sales engineering function. A former VP at Zuora who witnessed its growth from $7M to $200M ARR and through IPO, Darrow conceived Vivun during a campervan trip through New Zealand, coding the first version from campsite Airbnbs alongside his wife Dominique. Today, Vivun's platform serves customers like Snowflake, Seismic, ADP, and Autodesk, with clients reporting 37% gains in technical win rates and 31% shorter sales cycles.