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The Fans Were the Missing Broadcast
Ripple Analytics began by finding stolen video. Then sports leagues discovered a larger blind spot: the millions of fans carrying their stories farther than official accounts ever could.
Upwell gave the ocean a PR department. Who would pay for it?
A small San Francisco nonprofit turned online listening into shared campaigns for the sea. Its experiments outlived the organization - and left a difficult question about who funds work that benefits everyone.
Taplio Wants Your LinkedIn Habit, Not Just Your Posts
Taplio turns the weekly LinkedIn scramble into a repeatable system for ideas, writing, scheduling, engagement, and leads. The catch is simple: its best value appears only when posting is already part of your job.
JH Kim Built a Marketing Company by Listening to What Gamers Actually Say
The GGContent founder turned a game-sourcing hunch into a cross-border marketing system - then built ContentFlux to analyze the streams no human team could watch.
Ricky Yean
Ricky Yean is the co-founder and CEO of Flow Club, a virtual coworking and body-doubling community where remote, independent, and neurodiverse workers join live focus sessions to get things done together. A Taiwanese immigrant who arrived in the US at eleven and attended Stanford on a full endowment scholarship, he is a three-time startup founder and two-time Y Combinator alum (S10, S21). Before Flow Club he built Crowdbooster, one of the most popular early Twitter and Facebook analytics tools used by brands from Nike to the United Nations, and Upbeat, a tech-enabled PR service. He writes a weekly newsletter on startups, Asian America, and life, and does standup comedy on the side.
Quid
Quid is an AI-powered consumer and market intelligence platform that reads billions of structured and unstructured data points - news, social posts, reviews, patents, forums - and turns them into business outcomes. Born from the 2020 merger of NetBase (social listening) and Quid Inc. (AI text analytics and network visualization), the company now sells a workflow platform (Q Platform) and a library of AI agents (Q Agents) so brands can see what's coming and decide what to do about it before competitors do.
Anthony Lye
Anthony Lye is Chairman and CEO of Quid, the AI-powered consumer and market intelligence platform based in Santa Clara, California. A Silicon Valley veteran with over 25 years in enterprise software, he previously served as CEO of Amplience, Global Head of Apollo at Palantir Technologies, and EVP & GM of NetApp's Public Cloud Business Unit — which he grew from $500K to $550 million over five years. He is also an Operating Advisor at Bessemer Venture Partners, a Board of Trustees member at the University of Bath, and an active angel investor.