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(3)Taso Du Val
Taso Du Val is the co-founder and CEO of Toptal, the global on-demand talent network he started in 2010. A high school dropout from Western Massachusetts who tried music before code, he built one of the largest profitable bootstrapped marketplaces in the world while refusing the Silicon Valley playbook of raising round after round.
Kyle Harrison
Kyle Harrison is a General Partner at Contrary, the talent- and research-driven venture capital firm based in San Francisco. He joined in 2022 to co-found the firm's later-stage investment practice, bringing nearly a decade of experience from Index Ventures, Coatue Management, and TCV, where he backed companies including Ramp, Pave, Anduril, GitLab, Databricks, Snowflake, Figma, and Robinhood. Beyond deploying capital, Harrison built Contrary Research - one of the largest private market research platforms in the world, with 100,000+ subscribers and 500+ published reports. He also publishes the Investing 101 newsletter on Substack (26,000+ subscribers) and co-authored 'The Anduril Thesis,' a 300-page deep dive that took two years and 500+ sources to produce. Married to Camden, father of four, and a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.
Matt Oberhardt
Matt Oberhardt is a Partner on the Talent Network team at Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), where he has led executive hiring and talent strategy since 2012. Armed with a BS in Chemical Engineering from MIT and an MBA from Wharton, he spent six years at Korn/Ferry International before joining a16z to help portfolio founders recruit and retain world-class C-suite talent. Beyond executive search, he is a board member of The COMMIT Foundation and champions the transition of military veterans into technology careers, partnering with organizations like BreakLine, Honor Foundation, and shift.org. He lives in Truckee, California (near Lake Tahoe), shares his home with a pair of golden retrievers, and is a devoted - if historically pained - Philadelphia sports fan.