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Chris Knape
Chris Knape is the CEO and co-founder of Rare Candy, a marketplace and toolkit for trading card collectors that has scanned more than five million cards. He spent a decade inside marketplaces and platforms - YouTube, Google Play, Thumbtack, Tempo - before turning a pandemic-era return to childhood card collecting into a venture-backed company built alongside Pokemon YouTuber Leonhart. Raised on a sailboat in the US Virgin Islands and trained at Dartmouth, BCG, and the youngest-manager ranks of early YouTube, he now spends his days authenticating, auctioning, and tracking the cards that nerds love.
Nikki Pechet
Nikki Pechet is the Co-Founder and CEO of Homebound, a tech-enabled homebuilder she launched in 2018 after wildfires devastated thousands of homes in Northern California. A veteran of Bain & Company and Thumbtack, she has built Homebound into a platform that digitizes every step of construction — from custom home design to permitting to build tracking — and has raised over $400 million in equity and real estate capital. She closed her Series A days after giving birth to her third child and has expanded Homebound across California, Colorado, Texas, and Florida, with aspirations to become the Amazon of homes.
Bryan Schreier
Bryan Schreier is a partner on Sequoia Capital's seed and early-stage team, where he's spent nearly two decades building category-defining companies from their earliest days. After launching Google's European headquarters and serving as interim President of Sales in China, he joined Sequoia in 2008 and became the first institutional investor in companies like Dropbox, Qualtrics, and Thumbtack. Known for hands-on board work and detailed founder playbooks, he specializes in marketplace and services infrastructure businesses that transform how work gets done, often partnering with bootstrapped or non-Bay Area founders to help them use data to find product-market fit and scale into category leaders.