Jordan Schneider is the founder and editor-in-chief of ChinaTalk, the premier independent newsletter and podcast covering US-China tech and policy. A Yale-educated historian who earned a master's in economics from Peking University's Yenching Academy, Schneider has built ChinaTalk into a 65,000-subscriber powerhouse with over 1 million podcast downloads in 2025 alone. He is an Adjunct Fellow at the Center for a New American Security (CNAS) and a former 2023-24 AWM Scholar, with bylines in Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, Wired, and Lawfare. Based in New York and fluent in Chinese, Schneider synthesizes elite policy analysis with accessible storytelling, covering semiconductors, AI development, export controls, and the full sweep of US-China competition.
Vik Paruchuri is the founder and CEO of Datalab, an AI startup building small, efficient foundation models for document intelligence. A self-taught ML engineer who majored in American History, he previously founded Dataquest - an online learning platform that taught data skills to over 1 million students. His open-source projects (Marker, Surya, Chandra OCR) have earned thousands of GitHub stars and benchmark-topping accuracy scores. He publishes 'The Vik Letter' newsletter covering semiconductors and tech.
Jensen Huang is the co-founder, president, and CEO of Nvidia Corporation — the world's most valuable semiconductor company, which he built from a Denny's booth in 1993 with $600 in combined cash. Born in Taipei, raised between Thailand and rural Kentucky, Huang is the longest-serving CEO of any S&P 500 technology company. His two-decade gamble on CUDA software created the unassailable moat that made Nvidia the backbone of the global AI revolution. He personally delivered the first AI supercomputer to OpenAI in 2016. As of 2026, Nvidia surpasses $5 trillion in market cap, generates $216 billion in annual revenue, and Huang's net worth stands at approximately $170 billion. The leather jacket is optional. The legacy is not.