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Jason Chicola
Jason Chicola is the founder and CEO of Rev, the Austin-based speech-to-text company that pairs 50,000 freelance transcriptionists with best-in-class AI to turn spoken words into searchable text. An MIT-trained engineer who became the third employee at oDesk (now Upwork), he built Rev on a simple bet: people will pay for curated quality, and people everywhere want to work from home. Today Rev serves over 100,000 clients including 60% of the Fortune 500, and Chicola is steering the company toward AI tools for the legal system, where accuracy is not optional.
Nathan Xu
Nathan Xu (also known as Xu Gao) is the co-founder and CEO of Plaud AI, the company behind the world's best-selling AI voice recorder and notetaker. A serial entrepreneur who failed three times before hitting gold, Xu bootstrapped Plaud from a Kickstarter campaign in 2023 to $180M+ ARR by 2025 - without a single dollar of venture capital. His credit-card-sized Plaud Note and wearable NotePin devices, which transcribe, summarize, and analyze conversations in 112 languages, have shipped to over 1.5 million users in 170+ countries. Based in San Francisco with roots in Wuhan, China, Xu represents a new breed of transpacific founder betting that the next great hardware platform fits in your pocket - or around your neck.