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Jin Stedge
Jin Stedge is the co-founder and CEO of TrueNorth, a San Francisco freight-tech company building an AI loadboard and virtual dispatcher named Loadie that helps independent truckers find loads, price them, and get paid. Born in Korea and adopted at seven into an American family of owner-operators, she studied aerospace engineering at MIT, did neuroscience research, and worked in HR tech and autonomous driving before returning to her family's roots in trucking. She founded TrueNorth in 2019 with Sanjaya Wijeratne, raised a $50M Series B backed by Sam Altman and Lachy Groom, and earned a spot on Forbes 30 Under 30.
Joe Betts-LaCroix
Joe Betts-LaCroix is the co-founder and CEO of Retro Biosciences, a San Francisco longevity biotech on a mission to add 10 healthy years to the human lifespan. A scientist-turned-serial-entrepreneur who once held a Guinness World Record for building the world's smallest Windows PC, he now leads a company backed by OpenAI's Sam Altman, valued at $1.8 billion in 2026, that has run an Alzheimer's clinical trial and co-developed a longevity-focused AI model with OpenAI. He came to biology by an unlikely route: a D-average high schooler who tinkered in shared houses, then earned straight A's, transferred to Harvard, and did research at MIT and Caltech before co-discovering principles of electron transfer in proteins.
Tyler Maloney
Tyler Maloney is a three-time founder and CEO of TeachMe.To, a San Francisco-based marketplace connecting students with vetted local coaches for private lessons in sports, music, and arts. A NC State Park Scholar with a Stanford MBA, he previously co-founded Undercover Colors - a date-rape drug detection nail polish that raised $12M - and Faves, a video bookmarking app with 200,000+ users. TeachMe.To, described as 'the Airbnb for skills,' has grown from 2 lessons per day in 2022 to over 250 daily across every major U.S. city, backed by investors including Sam Altman, Bling Capital, and 1984 Ventures, with $10.5M raised.