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Vinoth Chandar and the cost of starting over
He helped build Uber’s data infrastructure, then watched other engineers wrestle with the same problems. At Onehouse, Vinoth Chandar is trying to make that repetition unnecessary.
Veeraj Chugh and the trouble with everyday things
A disappointing webcam sent Veeraj Chugh from Uber into consumer hardware. At Opal Electronics, his ambitions now reach beyond the little camera that started it.
Siadhal Magos and the things an interview forgets
At Uber, Siadhal Magos learned how much a company depends on its next hire. With Metaview, he is trying to give that decision a better memory.
Mike Kadin knows what a voice is worth
A physics teacher, musician and former Uber engineer built RedCircle around a stubborn question: how can independent podcasters get paid without losing the voice that made people listen?
Claudia Laurie and the business of coming back
A fashion internship led Claudia Laurie toward software. After co-founding Prive and selling it to Recurly, she is still working on the same question: what makes a customer return?
Alex Craciun and the business of coming back
Before co-founding Prive, Alex Craciun delivered groceries and worked on subscriptions at Uber. After selling the company to Recurly, he returned to building merchant software at DoorDash.
Prithvi Rai and the things a company forgets
At Yahoo, Facebook and Uber, Prithvi Rai worked on the machinery of trust. With Borneo, he turned a familiar problem - keeping track of sensitive data as a business grows - into a company of his own.
Anand Tumuluru and the Arithmetic of Dinner
He built business systems at Flipkart, worked at Uber and opened a restaurant with friends. At Loop AI, Anand Tumuluru is bringing those experiences to a question every delivery order leaves behind: what did the restaurant actually earn?
Ovais Tariq and the art of making storage uneventful
After nearly six years building storage at Uber, Ovais Tariq co-founded Tigris Data. His next challenge is to make global storage feel simple, even when the work underneath reaches all the way down to the hardware.
Pandu Adi Laras and the price of standing still
After years at Uber, Gojek and GoFleet, Pandu Adi Laras turned his attention to Indonesia’s used-car dealers. At broom.id, his starting point is the money tied up in the cars they already own.
Mark Lawrence and the art of staying put
A pile of Chicago parking tickets gave Mark Lawrence a problem to solve. Building SpotHero meant learning when to move, when to wait, and whose advice to leave at the curb.
Alan Jiang and the business of going almost nowhere
After helping Uber expand across Asia, Alan Jiang co-founded Beam to make short journeys work on smaller wheels. His route has taken him from city launches to parking rules, a regulatory reckoning and a merger with a familiar rival.
Trasy Lou Walsh and the business of waiting
She helped people book rides, order dinner and pay later. With Fluid, Trasy Lou Walsh is tackling the time between a business making a sale and actually getting paid.
Charles Soll and the business of getting things there
After product work at Uber, Charles Soll co-founded Moab to connect the daily workings of equipment rental businesses. His story unfolds in customer meetings, dispatch decisions, and the unglamorous details that keep a fleet moving.
Thomas Ranese Is Marketing the Useful Side of AI
From his father's Long Island pasta shop to Google, Uber, Chobani and Intuit, Thomas Ranese has kept returning to one practical question: what does this product do for a real person?
Luke Fischer
Luke Fischer is the co-founder and CEO of SkyFi, an Austin-based Earth intelligence platform that lets businesses and governments order satellite imagery and analytics on demand, the way you'd hail an Uber. A former U.S. Army Special Operations aviator with 16 years on active duty, Fischer went on to lead flight operations at Uber and government operations at Joby Aviation before becoming an entrepreneur-in-residence at Shield Capital. He teamed up with investor Bill Perkins, who was frustrated that buying satellite imagery could take three to six months, and together they built a marketplace connecting more than 50 imagery providers. In January 2026 SkyFi raised an oversubscribed $12.7 million Series A to push deeper into AI-driven analytics.
Kevin Tian
Kevin Tian is the co-founder and CEO of Doppel, an AI-native social engineering defense platform that scans the internet for impersonation campaigns and shuts them down automatically. A Georgetown grad who built dispatch systems and flying-car software at Uber and Lyft, he started Doppel in 2022 after spotting social engineering becoming the top source of breaches and cyber-insurance claims. Doppel raised a $70M Series C in November 2025 at a $600M+ valuation, backed by Bessemer, a16z, CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz, and a bench of WNBA stars.
Peter McKee
Peter McKee is the co-founder and CEO of Aeqium, a San Francisco compensation-management platform that pulls HR and finance teams out of spreadsheet chaos and into a controlled, data-driven system for planning salaries, bonuses, equity, and benefits. An MIT-trained engineer who led self-driving rider experience at Uber and was an early backend engineering manager at Braze, McKee also served as a US Army officer running battalion combat-engineer operations in Afghanistan. He started Aeqium in late 2020 to make pay fairer, faster, and less of a fire drill.
Yuxin Zhu
Yuxin Zhu is the co-founder and CEO of Replo, a San Francisco low-code platform that lets ecommerce brands build high-converting Shopify landing pages without writing code. A UC Berkeley computer scientist, he first made his name building Berkeleytime, a course-scheduling tool that grew to over a million annual sessions and was acquired by the University of California. After six years engineering and managing product teams at Uber through its IPO, he reunited with college friend Noah Gilmore to launch Replo in Y Combinator's Summer 2021 batch. The company has raised over $8 million and onboarded thousands of brands, much of it on word-of-mouth growth.
Meghan Joyce
Meghan Verena Joyce is the co-founder and CEO of Duckbill, a Boston startup that pairs AI with human experts to act as an executive assistant for your personal life - booking appointments, filing claims, and clearing the to-do list. Before founding Duckbill in 2022, she ran Uber's biggest East Coast markets, served as COO and EVP of Platform at Oscar Health, and advised the U.S. Treasury during the recession. She has raised $33 million for Duckbill, led by Forerunner Ventures, and sits on the boards of The Boston Beer Company and Guardant Health.
Dara Khosrowshahi
Dara Khosrowshahi is the CEO of Uber, the global ride-hailing and delivery platform he has led since September 2017. An Iranian-American who fled Tehran as a child during the Revolution, he spent 12 years building Expedia into a travel giant before inheriting Uber at its most turbulent moment. Under his leadership, Uber went public in 2019, achieved sustained profitability, and expanded into a multi-service platform operating across 70+ countries with $193+ billion in annual gross bookings. A self-described gamer, sci-fi geek, and cycling enthusiast who once wore a Slayer T-shirt to his wedding, Khosrowshahi has rebuilt Uber's culture around a simple principle: 'We do the right thing. Period.'
Anish Dhar
Anish Dhar is the Cofounder and CEO of Cortex, a San Francisco-based internal developer portal company he co-founded in 2019 after spending nearly five years as an engineer at Uber. Watching Uber's microservices sprawl into chaos—thousands of undocumented services named after video games, ownership lost every time someone quit—he rented an Airbnb for a weekend hackathon with two friends and built the first version of what would become a $470M company backed by Sequoia, Scale Venture Partners, IVP, and the Collison brothers. Cortex raised $60M in Series C funding in September 2024 and is used by engineering teams at Adobe, Grammarly, Xero, TripAdvisor, and Canva to catalog, score, and continuously improve their software services.
Bernardo Garcia
Bernardo Garcia is the Co-Founder and COO of Félix Pago, a Miami-based fintech startup that lets Latino immigrants in the US send money home via WhatsApp in roughly 40 seconds. Born in Guadalajara, Mexico, Garcia built his career across consulting and Uber before earning his MBA at Wharton, where he met co-founder Manuel Godoy. Together they launched Félix in 2020, growing it to process over $1 billion in remittances in 2024 and raising a $75 million Series B in April 2025 led by QED Investors.
Zahid Shaikh
Zahid Shaikh is the Co-Founder and Head of Risk Products at Sardine, an AI-powered fraud and compliance platform that has raised $145.6M in total funding. Previously a top inventor at PayPal where his device intelligence product saved the company $40M+ annually in fraud losses, Zahid then led risk and security product teams at Uber and Revolut before co-founding Sardine in April 2020 alongside Soups Ranjan and Aditya Goel. Sardine now profiles 2.2+ billion devices and achieved 130% YoY ARR growth in 2024.
Frédérique Dame
Frédérique Dame is a General Partner at GV (Google Ventures), where she leads investments in consumer technology, life sciences, and AI. A French immigrant who moved to Silicon Valley at 24, she built her career as a product and engineering leader at Yahoo!, Photobucket, SmugMug, and Uber — where she helped scale the company from 80 employees to 7,000+ across 68 countries. At GV she co-leads the Women's Health investment team and has backed companies including Midi Health, Found, Allara, Oula Health, and TMRW. She serves on the board of Les Mills International and previously on Ubisoft's board, and was named to Rock Health's Top 50 in Digital Health.
Mini Suri
Mini Suri is the Co-Founder and CEO of VELMENI, a Silicon Valley-based FDA-cleared dental AI company that analyzes 2D and 3D dental X-rays to detect pathologies that even experienced dentists miss. Drawing on 20+ years at Citi, a stint building intelligent automation at Uber, and an MBA from MIT Sloan, she pivoted to healthtech after a personal brush with the cost of missed diagnoses. Under her leadership, VELMENI has grown to serve 500+ dental offices across 50+ countries with AI-powered tools for panoramic, bitewing, periapical, and CBCT imaging - aiming to bring affordable, high-quality dental diagnostics to one billion patients worldwide.
Annie Case
Annie Case is a Partner (and current Advisor) at Kleiner Perkins, one of Silicon Valley's most storied venture firms, where she backs early-stage founders building in consumer tech, digital health, and enterprise AI. A Stanford-educated defender who won the 2011 NCAA soccer championship, she traded cleats for cap tables after stints at Bain & Company and Uber — where she helped scale UberEats internationally — and has since built a portfolio spanning mental health (Modern Health), AI healthcare infrastructure (Ambience), fitness coaching (Future), and next-generation shopping (Phia). Known for investing at the intersection of human behavior and technology, Case brings rare operator empathy to the boardroom.
Rob Hayes
Rob Hayes is a Board Partner at First Round Capital, the seed-stage venture firm famous for backing companies before anyone else dares. Over 12 years as a full partner beginning in 2006, Hayes made some of the most consequential bets in tech history - writing the first institutional check into Uber when it was worth $4 million, backing Square before payments were cool, and leading investments in Mint.com, eero, Planet Labs, and Gnip. A former Palm product manager turned Omidyar Network pioneer turned VC legend, Hayes built First Round's San Francisco office from scratch and helped define what 'founder support' actually means in venture capital.
Samson Wu
Samson Wu is a Recruiting Operations Partner at Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), one of Silicon Valley's most influential venture capital firms. With roots in economics from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo and formative stints at AIESEC, Uber, and CloudKitchens, he has become a key architect of how a16z and its portfolio companies find and hire world-class talent. He supports the firm's New Media team as an HR Business Partner and brings operational rigor to recruiting functions that span early-stage startups to growth-stage companies across the a16z portfolio.
Shari Doherty
Shari Doherty is the Marketing Partner for Crypto at Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), where she leads brand and marketing for one of the most influential crypto investment firms on the planet. With two decades of marketing and communications experience spanning Danger Inc., Google Android, Uber, Atomico, Essential, and Amazon Smart Home, she has helped define how some of tech's most iconic products tell their stories. At a16z crypto, she's doing it again - this time for the next internet.