Vaughn Paladin is the Co-Founder and CEO of Arcsona, a Salesforce consulting and IT services firm headquartered in Campbell, California. He co-founded Arcsona in 2010 alongside Stephan Thomsen, drawing on 15 years of consulting experience at Ernst & Young and as CEO of FocusFrame. Under his leadership, Arcsona has grown to 83 employees across three continents, completed over 200 Salesforce implementations, and shipped Spark - a no-code tool for Salesforce Experience Cloud - on the AppExchange.
Matan Grinberg is the CEO and Co-Founder of Factory, an AI platform that deploys autonomous agents called Droids to automate the entire software development lifecycle. A theoretical physicist who dropped out of his UC Berkeley PhD program in 2023 after a fateful three-hour walk with Sequoia partner Shaun Maguire, Grinberg built Factory from a 72-hour hackathon demo into a $1.5B unicorn backed by Khosla Ventures, Sequoia, Blackstone, and Insight Partners. Named to Forbes 30 Under 30 AI in 2025, he is one of the defining voices in the agent-native development movement.