stand-up-comedy
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Ruchir Shah
Ruchir Shah is the founder and CEO of SkillCat, a mobile-first training platform that has taught more than 300,000 people to enter skilled trades like HVAC, plumbing, electrical, and appliance repair. A Rice-trained energy engineer with a Stanford MBA, he started building animated industrial simulations after researching the BP oil spill and concluding that bad training kills. His first company, LearnToDrill, trained 25,000 oil and gas workers for clients like Halliburton and BP. When COVID threw skilled workers out of jobs while contractors begged for help, Shah pivoted to SkillCat to bridge that gap with simulation-based, $10-a-month trade education. He also runs the GRIT Foundation to introduce trades careers to underserved youth, and once spent a summer doing stand-up comedy in New York.
Noel Miller
Noel Miller is a Canadian-American comedian, YouTuber, podcaster, rapper, and studio founder who built a media empire from a web development day job. Best known as co-founder of the Tiny Meat Gang (TMG) comedy-rap duo with Cody Ko, Miller now runs TMG Studios solo as its sole owner — a podcast network boasting 300M+ YouTube views and 175M+ audio downloads. With 3.8 million combined YouTube subscribers, a sold-out stand-up career, and a debut comedy special on YouTube, Miller has carved out a lane where internet culture commentary meets genuine artistic ambition.