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Van Vu
Van Vu is the founder and CEO of Basis Surf, a New York-based company that makes a dry-land paddle trainer for surfers, and the host of the Basis Surf Podcast, which The Inertia voted the best overall surf podcast. He grew up surfing in Orange County, California, spent three years and countless late nights engineering a device that replicates the resistance of paddling a surfboard, and turned his own obsessive frustration - living an hour from a break that is flat 90% of the time - into a product and a body of coaching interviews with roughly 100 top surfers, shapers, and coaches.
Eliot Peper
Eliot Peper is the bestselling author of twelve speculative thrillers — including Ensorcelled, Foundry, Reap3r, and the Analog trilogy — that explore the collision of technology, power, and culture. Based in Pacifica, CA, he serves as Head of Story at Portola, where he builds the lore and personality behind Tolan, an AI companion startup that went from $1M to $4M ARR in four weeks. A former entrepreneur-in-residence at a VC firm, Latin translator, dengue fever survivor, and avid surfer, Peper writes the books he wants to read — and has earned praise from Seth Godin, Kim Stanley Robinson, Cory Doctorow, Kevin Kelly, and Tim O'Reilly along the way.