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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.
Eli Dourado
Eli Dourado is an economist and head of strategic investments at the Astera Institute, where he deploys capital to push frontier technologies in energy, aerospace, and other capital-intensive, heavily regulated sectors. He describes his work as a 'sacred quest to increase the pace of American economic growth,' which he argues has stagnated since around 1973. A former regulatory hacker at Boom Supersonic and director of the technology policy program at the Mercatus Center, he is known for influential essays on geothermal energy, supersonic flight, cargo airships, and ending the Great Stagnation.