Will Stancil is a civil rights attorney and research fellow at the University of Minnesota Law School's Institute on Metropolitan Opportunity, known for his prolific and combative presence on social media - dubbed by Slate as 'the most harassed man in the history of Twitter.' A specialist in housing policy, school segregation, and metropolitan governance, Stancil gained national attention in 2023 defending Biden-era economic narratives against 'vibecession' framing, ran for Minnesota state legislature in 2024, and emerged in 2026 as a visible organizer documenting ICE operations in Minneapolis. His mix of rigorous policy research and relentless online engagement has made him one of the most recognizable progressive voices in American digital politics.
Logan Alexander Paul is an American content creator, professional wrestler, boxer, entrepreneur, and podcaster who built one of the internet's most recognizable brands from a YouTube channel in Ohio. Co-founder of the billion-dollar PRIME Hydration beverage brand alongside KSI, current WWE World Tag Team Champion (with Austin Theory), and General Partner at Anti Fund — a $30M+ AI and robotics-focused venture capital firm — Paul has methodically transformed viral fame into durable enterprise. His Impaulsive podcast has surpassed 4 million YouTube subscribers, and his total social media following exceeds 96 million across platforms.
Daniella Vallurupalli is the Vice President and Head of Global Communications at Cloudflare, the internet infrastructure and security company. She joined Cloudflare in 2014 when it had fewer than 80 employees and built its communications organization from the ground up. Today she oversees all internal and external communications across public relations, corporate and employee comms, analyst relations, social media, and visual storytelling for one of the most recognized brands in cloud networking and cybersecurity.
Lara Cohen is Vice President of Strategic Partnerships for Media, Creators & AI at Cloudflare, where she leads efforts to help publishers and creators control, protect, and monetize their content in the age of AI crawlers. A veteran of Twitter (two stints spanning nearly a decade), she orchestrated some of the platform's most iconic cultural moments - including Ellen DeGeneres' record-shattering 2014 Oscars selfie - before serving as SVP at Linktree, championing fair creator compensation at scale. Now at Cloudflare, she sits at the intersection of internet infrastructure and the creator economy, building the policy and partnership frameworks that will define how human-created content interacts with AI systems.
LaSandra Brill is Vice President of Global Digital Marketing at NVIDIA, one of the most influential technology companies in the world. Leading a team of 185+ people, she oversees data strategy, CRM, media, corporate social, marketing automation, NVIDIA.com, analytics, and NVIDIA's own AI marketing strategy. With 20+ years in tech marketing across Cisco and Symantec, she has been recognized as a Top 50 Influential Digital Marketer and Top 25 Women Who Rock Social Media. Beyond her work at NVIDIA, she is a published children's book author - her 2017 book 'Let's Be Friends' promotes inclusion for children with Down syndrome - and serves on the boards of LuMind IDSC Foundation, Special Olympics, and Abilities United.
Terrence Morash is VP, Head of Marketing (Brand and Creative) at Slice, the New York-based technology platform powering independent pizzerias across the United States. A veteran creative and marketing leader with deep roots in digital advertising, he has shaped Slice's transformation from a consumer pizza-ordering app into a full-service B2B partner for local pizza shops - building brand campaigns, a loyalty program, a POS system launch, and the 'Slice of the Union' thought leadership series. Before Slice, Morash led creative at Shutterstock, where his trend-forecasting work reached global audiences, and held senior creative roles at Rosetta, Again Interactive, and Zeta Interactive.
Higgsfield AI is a San Francisco-based generative AI company that builds professional video and image creation tools for creators, marketers, and enterprise teams. Founded in October 2023 by former Snap executive Alex Mashrabov, the platform offers Cinema Studio, Lip-Sync Studio, and a suite of AI models (Sora 2, Kling 3.0, Veo 3.1) for producing cinematic-quality content. The company reached $200M annualized revenue run rate within 9 months of launch, achieved unicorn status at a $1.3B valuation in January 2026 after raising $80M in a Series A extension led by Accel, and hosts 25 million users across 240+ countries generating 4.5 million videos per day.
InVideo is an AI-powered video creation platform that turns plain text into polished, publish-ready videos. Founded in 2017 in Mumbai and now headquartered in Daly City, California, the company serves 50+ million users across 190+ countries. Its flagship product InVideo AI lets anyone - from solo creators to enterprise marketing teams - generate scripts, visuals, voiceovers, and complete videos by typing instructions in plain English. In 2025, InVideo became the only platform bundling access to both OpenAI's Sora 2 and Google's VEO 3.1 under a single subscription, cementing its position at the frontier of AI-driven video production.
Jasper is an enterprise AI marketing platform that gives marketing teams a purpose-built workspace with 100+ specialized AI agents, proprietary Brand IQ and Marketing IQ technology layers, and content pipelines designed to produce on-brand content at scale. Founded in 2021 by Dave Rogenmoser, Chris Hull, and JP Morgan, Jasper grew from a simple GPT-3 frontend into a unicorn valued at $1.7 billion, serving over 100,000 customers including nearly 20% of the Fortune 500.
Cube is an AI-powered marketing automation platform headquartered in Palo Alto, California, that deploys autonomous AI agents to manage paid ads, SEO, social media, email marketing, and online reputation management from a single dashboard. Founded by IIT and Stanford alumni, the company trains its AI on historical ad-spend data to deliver real-time campaign optimization across Google, Meta, TikTok, Amazon, and more - promising businesses a full marketing team's output without the headcount.
Jimmy Donaldson, known globally as MrBeast, is the most-subscribed individual on YouTube with 487+ million subscribers. At 27, he runs Beast Industries, a $5 billion media and consumer goods conglomerate, produces Amazon Prime Video's most-watched unscripted series Beast Games, and has donated tens of millions through initiatives like Team Trees and Team Seas. He reinvests virtually all revenue back into his productions, calling YouTube his true obsession.
Kurtis Conner is a Canadian comedian, YouTuber, and podcaster with over 5.6 million YouTube subscribers and 1.16 billion views. Known for deadpan social commentary, he parlayed a Vine following into a full-time comedy career, releasing multiple stand-up albums, hosting the Very Really Good podcast since 2017, and headlining his Goodfellow World Tour across North America, Australia, New Zealand, and Europe in 2024.
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.
Mike Majlak is a YouTube vlogger, podcaster, and USA Today bestselling author best known as co-host of the Impaulsive podcast alongside Logan Paul. After overcoming severe addiction in 2010, he rebuilt his life from scratch - going from homelessness to building a social media presence of over 6 million followers. A veteran of digital marketing and content creation, he is now Chief Creator in Residence at AI podcast startup Rebel Audio and an investor in RTHMS, a behavioral compatibility platform. His memoir 'The Fifth Vital' documents his harrowing journey through addiction and recovery.
Tyler 'Ninja' Blevins is the world's most recognized gaming streamer, having transformed competitive gaming into mainstream entertainment. Starting as a Halo pro in 2009, he became the face of Fortnite's cultural takeover - playing live with Drake to a record 628,000 concurrent viewers in 2018 - and parlayed that moment into a media empire spanning Twitch, YouTube, brand deals with Red Bull and Adidas, a Chief Innovation Officer role at GameSquare Holdings, and a co-founded cashew milk brand. With 19+ million Twitch followers and 23+ million YouTube subscribers, he continues to define what a professional streamer can become.
Amy Pritchard is the founder and CEO of ModSquad, a global leader in outsourced digital engagement services. A former commercial litigator, she launched the company in 2007 inside a virtual bar in Second Life with four colleagues - their first gig was guarding Newt Gingrich's avatar. Today ModSquad runs 10,000+ independent contractors across 70 countries, serving clients from the NFL to the U.S. Department of State with customer support, content moderation, trust and safety, and community management - blending agentic AI with high-EQ human expertise.
Katy Keim is the Chief Executive Officer of LeanData, the leading revenue orchestration platform trusted by over 1,000 B2B companies. A marketing and go-to-market veteran with 20+ years across enterprise SaaS, she previously served as CMO of Lithium Technologies and CEO of LQ Digital before joining LeanData's board in 2021 and stepping into the CEO role in July 2025. Katy holds degrees from the University of Virginia (History) and Northwestern's Kellogg School of Management (MBA, Marketing & Entrepreneurship), and has been recognized as an Inspirational Woman in Tech by We Are Tech Women.
Humza Rahat Siddiqui is a UK-based content development and marketing specialist currently working as Ticketing & Support at Virgin Atlantic's Heathrow Airport operations. With a cross-industry career spanning digital marketing, aviation, supply chain, and corporate communications, he has driven social media growth to over 200,000 Facebook followers, collaborated with aviation executives to build a new airline training academy in Pakistan, and contributed content for high-profile events including Pakistan Fashion Week and Unilever product launches. His academic background combines a BSc in International Business from Coventry University with an MSc in Supply Chain from the University of South Wales.
Nathan Sharp is the Co-Founder and CEO of Retro, a friends-only photo journal app built on the belief that social media can be better - more intimate, more honest, more for the people you actually care about. A Harvard grad and Dartmouth Tuck MBA, Sharp spent six years at Meta where he helped launch Instagram Stories in 2016 before leaving to build Retro with his co-founder Ryan Olson. Backed by Thrive Capital, Dylan Field, and a constellation of top-tier VCs, Retro hit #1 photo app in Canada and broke into the US top charts in 2025, proving that people still want a social app that actually feels like talking to friends.
Biz Stone is the co-founder and Creative Director of Twitter, the platform that redefined public discourse. Born Christopher Isaac Stone in Boston, he dropped out of college twice, designed book covers, and walked away from $2 million in unvested Google stock to help build what became one of the most influential communication platforms in history. Beyond Twitter, he co-founded Jelly Industries (acquired by Pinterest), The Obvious Corporation with Evan Williams, and in 2024 joined the board of Mastodon's U.S. nonprofit - a quiet statement about where social media should go next. His guiding philosophy: opportunity can be manufactured.
Ev Williams is the Nebraska farm boy who accidentally invented blogging, co-founded Twitter, built Medium, and is now trying to make social media actually social again with Mozi. A serial founder who has shaped how the world communicates - and who openly regrets some of what that meant - he remains one of tech's most quietly consequential figures, running Obvious Ventures, a B Corp impact fund with $585M in assets, while incubating his next idea from San Francisco.
Kevin Systrom co-founded Instagram in 2010 with Mike Krieger, transforming mobile photography into a global phenomenon with over 1 billion users before selling to Facebook for $1 billion in 2012. After leaving Instagram in 2018, he launched Artifact, an AI-powered news app, later acquired by Yahoo in 2024. A Stanford-educated engineer with a passion for photography and design, Systrom serves on the boards of Walmart and Snowflake while continuing to invest in and advise tech startups from San Francisco.
Michel Krieger is a Brazilian-American engineer and entrepreneur who co-founded Instagram in 2010 and scaled it from zero to 1 billion users as CTO before its $1 billion acquisition by Facebook. After leaving Instagram in 2018, he co-launched Rt.live (a COVID-19 tracker) and Artifact (an AI news app acquired by Yahoo), and now co-leads Anthropic Labs, where he's building experimental AI products at the frontier of Claude's capabilities.
Bobby Murphy is the co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of Snap Inc., the parent company of Snapchat. A mathematical and computational science graduate from Stanford, Murphy has led the engineering vision behind one of the world's most influential social media platforms since 2011. Known as Snapchat's 'quiet genius,' he pioneered ephemeral messaging and has been instrumental in developing Snap's augmented reality innovations, including Spectacles AR glasses. Named to Time's 100 Most Influential People in 2014, Murphy became one of the world's youngest billionaires and remains a driving force in Snap's transformation into a comprehensive AR and AI company.
Frank 'Reggie' Brown IV is the original co-founder of Snapchat who conceived the idea of disappearing photo messages in 2011 while a junior at Stanford University. He created the concept, named the app 'Picaboo,' designed the ghost logo, and served as CMO - before being locked out of accounts by Evan Spiegel and Bobby Murphy months after founding. His 2013 lawsuit settled for $157.5 million, exceeding the Winklevoss-Facebook settlement. He has since lived almost entirely out of public view.
Katie Jacobs Stanton is the Founder and General Partner of Moxxie Ventures, a San Francisco-based seed-stage venture firm managing $95M+ across three funds. A former VP of Global Media at Twitter, Director of Citizen Participation at the Obama White House, and State Department innovation advisor, she built her reputation deploying technology at the intersection of government, media, and social change - including spearheading the Haiti earthquake text-donation platform that raised $40M in days. Co-founder of #Angels, a collective that has placed capital in 120+ companies, she now backs outlier founders across enterprise software, climate tech, and vertical AI.
Claire Diaz-Ortiz is a venture capitalist, angel investor, bestselling author of 10 books, executive coach, and former Twitter Corporate Social Innovation Director - the early employee Wired dubbed 'The Woman Who Got the Pope on Twitter.' A Stanford and Oxford-educated polymath who co-founded a nonprofit in Kenya, live-tweeted the birth of her child, holds the prized @claire Twitter handle, and now runs The Angel Collective to fund female founders across Latin America while coaching Fortune 500 executives through 100 Coaches Agency.
Dick Costolo is a co-founder and General Partner at 01 Advisors, a $920M venture firm he built with former Twitter COO Adam Bain. Before that, he was the CEO of Twitter from 2010 to 2015 - the longest-tenured and most financially productive CEO in the company's history, growing revenue from zero to $1.5 billion and leading its 2013 IPO. He started his career as an improv comedian at Chicago's Second City (Steve Carell was in his cohort), built and sold three startups including FeedBurner to Google for ~$100M, and remains one of the most candid, self-deprecating, and operationally sharp executives in Silicon Valley.
Evan Spiegel is the co-founder and CEO of Snap Inc., the company behind Snapchat, Spectacles, and Bitmoji. He built one of the few social platforms to meaningfully challenge Facebook by betting on ephemeral messaging, augmented reality, and the camera as the primary interface of human communication. At 26, he became the youngest CEO of a newly public major U.S. tech company. He turned down $3 billion from Mark Zuckerberg at 23. He holds dual American and French citizenship, is married to supermodel Miranda Kerr, and completed his Stanford degree six years after dropping out.
Gary Vaynerchuk, known as GaryVee, is a Belarusian-American serial entrepreneur, CEO of VaynerMedia, Chairman of VaynerX, and founder of VeeFriends. He grew his family's $3M liquor store into a $60M e-commerce empire before building one of the most influential digital marketing agencies in the world. With 38+ million social media followers, 8 bestselling books, early angel investments in Facebook, Twitter, Uber, Venmo, and Coinbase, and a relentless content machine that runs 365 days a year, Gary Vee is one of the most recognizable voices in entrepreneurship, brand-building, and the creator economy.