
Ryan Breslow is the founder and CEO of Bolt, the one-click checkout company he built after dropping out of Stanford in 2014. Having once reached an $11 billion valuation and briefly becoming one of the world's youngest self-made billionaires, Breslow has led the company through a dramatic 97% valuation collapse and a gritty comeback - returning as CEO in 2025 in 'wartime' mode to rebuild Bolt as an AI-first payments SuperApp with roughly 100 employees.

John Lai is a Taiwanese-Australian entrepreneur and the Founder & CEO of MixerBox, a Palo Alto-based AI super-apps company backed by Y Combinator. A former competitive programmer who won the Australian Championship and a silver medal at the ICPC world finals, Lai parlayed his University of New South Wales computer engineering degree (with First Class Honours and the University Medal) and a Harvard master's degree into building MixerBox in 2012. The company's portfolio of daily-essential mobile apps has surpassed 300 million downloads worldwide, and MixerBox became the largest developer in the ChatGPT Plugin Store by plugin count. Investors include Y Combinator, Adam D'Angelo (Facebook's first CTO, Quora CEO), and Paul Buchheit (Gmail creator).