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Why Sridhar Ramaswamy Keeps Starting Over
He helped build Google’s advertising business, then co-founded a search engine without ads. Neeva’s consumer service closed. Its technology took him to Snowflake, where an old database researcher found a new question to work on.
Tom Button and the afterlife of good software
He helped bring Visual Basic and Visual Studio to developers. At Mobilize.Net, Tom Button built a business around what happened to their code years later.
Kumar Kanakamedala and the value of a wider view
Anblicks’s co-founder and CEO has a simple explanation for how judgment grows: exposure. His career puts that idea to work through new colleagues, acquisitions, and an expanding view of what a data business can do.
Brad Gerstner’s bet on a head start
He launched Altimeter as the financial system was coming apart. Years later, the investor from Indiana took a different bet to Washington: give children a stake before they have a salary.
Josh Weyburne Has Spent a Career Making Complicated Systems Legible
From a community-built visualization cookbook to enterprise AI deployments, the Cincinnati engineer has followed one durable idea: technology matters when people can actually use it.
Tejas Manohar
Tejas Manohar is the cofounder and co-CEO of Hightouch, the San Francisco company that helped create the Composable CDP category by bringing customer data platform capabilities directly onto the data warehouse. He moved to San Francisco at 16 to become one of Segment's first ten engineers, then left in 2018 to start Hightouch with Kashish Gupta and Josh Curl. Under his leadership Hightouch has crossed $100M in annual recurring revenue and raised a $150M Series D in April 2026 at a $2.75B valuation, pivoting the company toward AI Decisioning and agentic marketing.
Jim Keller
Jim Keller is the AWS Global CEO at Quantiphi, an AI-first digital engineering firm and AWS Premier Tier consulting partner. He runs the company's AWS business unit, where he has helped land marquee designations including Quantiphi being named the First Preferred Amazon Quick SI Partner by the AWS Generative AI Innovation Center. A Boston-area technology leader with more than 25 years building and scaling public and private companies, Keller has moved through sales, marketing, and general-management roles across cloud, analytics, and software before focusing on enterprise generative and agentic AI.
Tim Mahlman
Tim Mahlman is the CEO of Narrative I/O, a New York-based data collaboration platform that lets companies buy, sell, and share data as easily as sending an email. He took the top job in May 2023 after a 25-plus-year run through the plumbing of digital advertising: founding member of one of the first ad networks in 1996, co-founder of the video exchange Vidible, president of platforms at AOL and then Verizon Media where the division grew from $1.5B to $4B, and president of the pet-health startup Petabyte before it was acquired by Chewy. He splits his time between New York City and the Bay Area.
Ethan Aaron
Ethan Aaron is the founder and CEO of Portable, a New York based ETL/ELT company that builds the data connectors nobody else wants to build. Where the rest of the data-pipeline industry chases the same handful of popular sources, Portable went after the long tail - thousands of niche, bespoke business applications - with no-code connectors and flat, no-volume pricing. A Penn-trained mechanical engineer and Wharton economist who passed through Goldman Sachs and LiveRamp before founding the company, Aaron is one of the data world's most prolific public voices, posting daily on LinkedIn and pushing a blunt thesis: data teams exist to make money, not to collect tools.
Richard Meng
Richard Meng is the co-founder and CEO of Roe AI, a Y Combinator-backed (W24) startup building an AI-powered data warehouse that lets data teams query unstructured, multimodal data - documents, images, web pages, video - with plain SQL. A UC Berkeley CS and Statistics double major, he previously led generative AI engineering at Snowflake and worked on the Skills and Knowledge Graph products at LinkedIn before founding Roe AI in 2023 to solve a problem that nagged him for a decade: the 80% of enterprise data that never gets used because it isn't in neat rows and columns.
Eric Berridge
Eric Berridge is a 23-year Salesforce ecosystem veteran and CEO of Coastal, a premier Salesforce consultancy he joined in 2020 and took the helm of in September 2023. He previously co-founded Bluewolf in 2000 - one of the first Salesforce-focused consulting firms - and built it to a major acquisition by IBM in 2016. A TED speaker, two-time author, and MFA-holder in creative writing who never studied computer science, Berridge argues that the humanities are tech's most underrated competitive advantage. Under his leadership, Coastal was acquired by Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) for $700 million in January 2026, the largest professional services acquisition in Salesforce ecosystem history.
Jacqueline Cheong
Jacqueline Cheong is the co-founder and CEO of Artie, a San Francisco data infrastructure company that streams changes from production databases into warehouses in real time using change data capture. A UC Berkeley applied math graduate who spent her early career as an equity analyst at Bank of America and a software investor at the hedge fund Balyasny, she switched sides of the table in 2023 to build the kind of company she used to underwrite, co-founding Artie with her husband and CTO Robin Tang. After going through Y Combinator's Summer 2023 batch, the pair grew Artie to a roster of enterprise customers including ClickUp, Substack, and Alloy processing more than 700 billion rows a year, and raised a $12 million Series A led by Standard Capital's Dalton Caldwell in January 2026, on top of a $3.3 million seed.
Jason Davis
Jason Davis is the co-founder and CEO of Simon AI (formerly Simon Data), a New York customer data platform that rebranded around agentic AI in 2025. A machine-learning PhD who built search algorithms at Google, he founded the ad-tech startup Adtuitive, sold it to Etsy in 2009, then ran Etsy's search and data teams as the marketplace grew from $180M to a $1B+ run rate. He and grad-school friend Matt Walker started Simon to give marketers direct, governed access to the data trapped inside their own warehouses. The company has raised roughly $117.8M, including a $54M Series D led by Macquarie Group.
Peter Fishman
Peter Fishman is the co-founder and CEO of Mozart Data, a Y Combinator-backed startup that lets anyone spin up a modern data stack in under an hour without hiring a data engineer. An economics PhD who once crunched numbers for the Philadelphia Eagles and ran a bacon hot sauce company, Fishman spent fifteen years building the same data pipelines over and over at Yammer, Zenefits, Opendoor, and Eaze before deciding to package that work into a product everyone could use.
Mike Palmer
Mike Palmer is the CEO of Sigma Computing, a San Francisco cloud analytics company that lets business users query data warehouses through a spreadsheet interface. He took the seat in May 2020 from co-founder Rob Woollen and has since scaled Sigma past $100M ARR, through a $200M Series D and a Series E that valued the company at roughly $3B.
Armon Petrossian
Armon Petrossian is the CEO and Co-Founder of Coalesce.io, a cloud-native data transformation platform built for the modern data stack. A first-generation Armenian-American from Portland, Oregon, he spent nearly a decade at WhereScape solving data warehouse challenges for Fortune 50 companies before co-founding Coalesce in 2020 with CTO Satish Jayanthi. Under his leadership, Coalesce has raised $81M+ in funding, achieved 4x year-over-year ARR growth, and grown to 140 employees, positioning itself as a leading ELT transformation platform for Snowflake, Databricks, and other cloud data platforms.
Jonathan Trevor
Jonathan Trevor is a Co-Founder of Observe, Inc., an AI-powered observability platform built on a streaming data lake that unifies logs, metrics, and traces to help engineering teams detect, investigate, and resolve incidents faster. He came to Observe from Wavefront (now VMware Tanzu Observability), where he served as Frontend Lead, and before that led frontend engineering at Shocase. Trevor holds a PhD in Computer Science from Lancaster University. Observe - co-founded with Jacob Leverich (ex-Splunk), Jon Watte (ex-Roblox), and Philip Unterbrunner (ex-Snowflake) and incubated by Sutter Hill Ventures - raised $156M in Series C funding in July 2025 before Snowflake announced its intent to acquire the company for approximately $1 billion in January 2026, its largest acquisition to date.
Rohit Choudhary
Rohit Choudhary is the Founder and CEO of Acceldata, the company credited with coining the term 'data observability' and building the world's first enterprise data observability platform. A career data engineer who spent years at InMobi and Hortonworks before striking out on his own in 2018, he has raised over $105 million and built a platform used by Fortune 500 companies to monitor, manage, and ensure reliability of their data pipelines in an era where bad data feeding AI models is no longer just an inconvenience — it's an enterprise liability.
Vikas Marwaha
Vikas Marwaha is the Co-Founder of Prophecy, an AI-powered data transformation platform trusted by Fortune 500 enterprises for building data pipelines at scale. With a career spanning Satyam, HP, Headstrong, and Wipro, he brings over two decades of enterprise sales and global partnerships experience to a company that raised $155M in total funding and achieved 3.5x revenue growth in FY2024. Prophecy's platform lets data teams build, deploy, and monitor pipelines visually while generating clean, open-source code - bridging the gap between business users and data engineers.
Benjamin Wagner
Benjamin Wagner is VP of Engineering (listed as CEO in some directories) at Firebolt, a cloud data warehouse built for speed. A computer scientist trained at Technical University of Munich, Wagner moved from academic database research and a Snowflake internship directly into building Firebolt's query engine from the ground up. He is the author of InkFuse, an experimental database runtime that unifies vectorized and compiled query execution, and a regular speaker at CMU's database seminar series. His work sits at the intersection of high-performance analytics and open standards, particularly around Apache Iceberg and PostgreSQL compliance.
Kyle Harrison
Kyle Harrison is a General Partner at Contrary, the talent- and research-driven venture capital firm based in San Francisco. He joined in 2022 to co-found the firm's later-stage investment practice, bringing nearly a decade of experience from Index Ventures, Coatue Management, and TCV, where he backed companies including Ramp, Pave, Anduril, GitLab, Databricks, Snowflake, Figma, and Robinhood. Beyond deploying capital, Harrison built Contrary Research - one of the largest private market research platforms in the world, with 100,000+ subscribers and 500+ published reports. He also publishes the Investing 101 newsletter on Substack (26,000+ subscribers) and co-authored 'The Anduril Thesis,' a 300-page deep dive that took two years and 500+ sources to produce. Married to Camden, father of four, and a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.
Shravan Narayen
Shravan Narayen is a General Partner at IVP (Institutional Venture Partners), one of Silicon Valley's most storied late-stage venture capital firms. Promoted to General Partner in May 2026, he focuses on enterprise infrastructure and AI applications, backing technically sophisticated founders building products that make hard things simple. A former product manager at Snowflake, Confluent, and C3.AI, he brings rare operator depth to IVP's growth-stage portfolio. He holds degrees from Stanford University and Harvard Business School, runs a Substack newsletter on venture and product, and describes himself as a 'hyper-caffeinated new dad' fueled by homemade chai.
Chris O'Neill
Chris O'Neill is a veteran technology executive with 25+ years of leadership across Google, Evernote, Glean, and Xero. Best known for leading Evernote's turnaround as CEO (2015-2018) and doubling its user base, he joined GrowthLoop as CEO in August 2024, steering the composable CDP startup through its AI transformation and Series D funding. A Tuck School of Business (Dartmouth) MBA and former Google Canada Managing Director who scaled that business to billions in revenue, O'Neill is also a board director at Gap Inc. and a published contributor to Fast Company and Fortune on the themes of AI, leadership, and compound growth.
Owen Frivold
Owen Frivold is the CEO of Cleartelligence, a modern data and AI consulting firm headquartered in Newton, Massachusetts. A Stanford-educated co-founder of Hero Digital, Frivold brings 14+ years of experience shaping customer experience and digital transformation for brands like Apple, Sephora, Airbnb, and Lucid Motors. After founding Winter Sun LLC as a boutique strategy advisory, he joined Cleartelligence as President in April 2024 - when the company acquired Winter Sun - and was elevated to CEO in April 2025. He is known for turning complex data problems into actionable intelligence and driving enterprise AI readiness across financial services, life sciences, manufacturing, and retail.
Rich Waller
Rich Waller is President and CEO of WellStack, a Madison, Wisconsin-based healthcare data platform that helps provider and payer organizations build a unified data ecosystem for AI, analytics, and population health management. A 20-year veteran of healthcare technology, Waller co-founded VisiQuate - a healthcare revenue cycle analytics company - before joining WellStack to lead its expansion into enterprise healthcare data infrastructure. He is known for his client-centered philosophy and belief that growth strategy is a team sport.
Shivkumar Thiagarajan
Shivkumar Thiagarajan, known as Shiv, is Co-Chief Executive Officer of DynPro Inc., a global IT consulting powerhouse he helped build over more than two decades. Based in Santa Clara, California, Shiv leads an organization of 1,600+ professionals spanning North America, EMEA, and Asia Pacific, delivering enterprise transformations across SAP, Salesforce, cloud, data, and AI platforms. With 30 years of institutional momentum behind DynPro and a newly minted partnership with Turgon AI that compresses year-long modernization projects into weeks, Shiv is steering one of the IT industry's most enduring firms into its AI-native chapter.
Sean Knapp
Sean Knapp is the founder and CEO of Ascend.io, an AI-native data engineering platform that unifies ingestion, transformation, orchestration, and observability into a single product. A Stanford-trained computer scientist, he previously built iGoogle at Google and co-founded Ooyala — a video platform that raised $120M and sold for $400M+. At Ascend, he is building what he calls 'Agentic Data Engineering,' where AI agents handle the operational burden that buries data teams, freeing engineers for strategic work.
Thierry Cruanes
Thierry Cruanes is the co-founder and CTO of Snowflake, the cloud data platform that executed the largest software IPO in US history in September 2020. A French-born database architect with a PhD from Pierre and Marie Curie University, he spent 13 years at Oracle leading query optimization before betting everything on the cloud in 2012 - when Hadoop was supposed to win. He holds over 40 patents, writes code on weekends for fun, and helped architect the compute-storage separation that redefined modern data warehousing.
Pat Grady
Pat Grady is co-steward of Sequoia Capital, one of Silicon Valley's most legendary venture capital firms. Since joining Sequoia in 2007 at age 24 as the youngest hire in the firm's history, he has led growth-stage investments in generational companies including OpenAI, ServiceNow, Snowflake, and Zoom - a portfolio exceeding $250 billion in combined market capitalization. A Wyoming native who worked as a roofer to pay for college, Grady now shapes the future of technology as co-leader of Sequoia alongside Alfred Lin, focusing heavily on AI and enterprise software innovation.
Carl Eschenbach
Carl Eschenbach is a technology executive and investor who scaled VMware from $30M to $7B as President and COO, led transformative growth investments at Sequoia Capital including Zoom and Snowflake, and served as CEO of Workday. A former Division I wrestler inducted into the National Wrestling Hall of Fame, he brings a competitive blue-collar work ethic to Silicon Valley's boardrooms, serving on the boards of Palo Alto Networks, Aurora, Snowflake, UiPath, and Zoom while counseling executives on his "4 C's" leadership framework.