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Jenny Hoyos Spent Eight Years Learning What One Minute Can Do
She started posting at eight, waited years for an audience, then found a character, a question and a clock. Now Jenny Hoyos is testing whether a million-view Short can become a lasting relationship.
Grace Wang Is Building the Editing Room That Never Sleeps
A finance graduate and former ByteDance growth operator saw creators drowning in post-production. At OpusClip, Grace Wang turned that bottleneck into a distribution engine used by millions.
Amir Hanna Posted 627 Videos to Build a Better Scroll
The Parrot CEO went from a C-plus French student and Shell engineer to a founder betting that the internet's most compulsive behavior can teach people to understand one another.
Mark Bietz
Mark Bietz is a marketing and ecommerce executive best known for helping build HalloweenCostumes.com and FUN.com into one of the largest online costume and pop-culture merchandise retailers in the world. As Chief Marketing Officer of the Mankato, Minnesota-based company, he led digital growth that scaled revenue roughly 10x-20x, championing data-driven email personalization and short-form video. A self-described curious operator who learned the business from brand to CRM to operations, he now also works as a fractional CMO and advisor to venture-backed and private-equity-backed brands, and speaks widely on modern ecommerce and the rise of agentic commerce.
Alice Ma
Alice Ma is the co-founder, CEO and Creative Director of Mad Realities, a New York media company building 'the MTV of the internet generation.' She designs unscripted shows made natively for social feeds - Shop Cats, Hollywood IQ, Proof of Love, Keep the Meter Running - that have racked up more than a billion views across just eight shows. Before TV, she helped run ConstitutionDAO, which raised $53 million in seven days, studied computer science, political economy and Arabic at UC Berkeley, and published the first investigation into terrorist crowdfunding on Bitcoin. A Forbes 30 Under 30 honoree, she is trying to bootstrap a new Hollywood ecosystem out of the participation mechanics of K-pop and crypto.
Luke Davidson
Luke Davidson is a Canadian comedy content creator from Dauphin, Manitoba who turned TikTok sketches into a multi-platform empire. Known for his relatable family-dynamics humor and the signature move of pulling a shirt over his head to play multiple characters, he amassed 15+ million TikTok followers and 17+ million YouTube subscribers before turning 23 - earning YouTube's Diamond Creator Award in 2022. His observational comedy about awkward school moments and everyday family chaos resonates with teenagers and young adults worldwide.