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Gary Garofalo
Gary Garofalo is the CEO and co-founder of LoudCrowd, an Austin-based software company that turns brand creators and influencers into measurable revenue channels. His platform builds native creator storefronts on a brand's own e-commerce site, aiming to make social commerce as mainstream as third-party tools like LTK or TikTok Shop. A former Deloitte consultant with an economics degree from Wesleyan, Garofalo has led LoudCrowd to work with brands including Gymshark, Boohoo, Kyte Baby and Dolce Vita.
Paul Archer
Paul Archer is the founder and CEO of Duel, a London-based brand advocacy SaaS platform that helps global brands like Charlotte Tilbury, Lush, ELEMIS, Victoria's Secret and Abercrombie & Fitch turn customers, creators and fans into a measurable growth channel. Before software, Archer drove a 1992 London black cab around the world, breaking two Guinness World Records and writing a best-selling book about it. He co-founded Duel in 2017 with viral games developer Naio Tsarouchis; the company raised a $16M Series A in September 2025 co-led by Molten Ventures and Bright Pixel.
Kennan Frost
Kennan Frost is the founder and CEO of Icon, a New York-based AI advertising company backed by Peter Thiel's Founders Fund. Previously he solo-founded Skio, a Shopify subscriptions startup that reached $32M ARR and a $105M cash exit. A former top-200 North American League of Legends player who dropped out of college at 19, he is one of the most outspoken solo-founder operators in consumer tech today.
Paul Benigeri
Paul Benigeri is the co-founder and CEO of Archive, an AI-powered influencer and user-generated-content marketing platform he launched with Geoffrey Woo in 2021. A Stanford computer-science graduate raised in Paris, he spent his early career writing code at First Round Capital and RockMelt before scaling growth and engineering at the nutrition company HVMN. Archive grew from a Shopify app that auto-captured Instagram Stories into a platform used by brands like Quest, Allbirds and Hexclad, raising roughly $12M-plus and reaching a reported $100M valuation in about 18 months while staying lean and remote-first.
Aoife Quinn
Aoife Quinn is the Co-Founder of Eco Lens Marketing, a Dubai-based social media agency that helps purpose-driven brands grow through strategic content and influencer marketing. A University of Limerick graduate who relocated from Ireland to the UAE, she has built a reputation for actionable marketing frameworks - from her 10-step TikTok Shop launch strategy to her content mix model - and was selected as a finalist for the EY Entrepreneur of the Year 2025 awards.
Graham Gaylor
Graham Gaylor is the co-founder and CEO of VRChat Inc., the social virtual reality platform he built from a single Reddit-recruited room in 2014 into a $500M company with millions of custom avatars and hundreds of thousands of user-created worlds. A Vanderbilt-trained mathematician and software engineer who backed the original Oculus Kickstarter, Gaylor has spent over a decade building the infrastructure for human connection in virtual space - a platform where avatars meet, worlds multiply, and the line between game and community blurs entirely.
Yash Kewalramani
Yash Kewalramani is the co-founder of Cherry App, a Bengaluru-based social commerce startup that pays Instagram creators cashback for shopping and sharing. Backed by All In Capital, Cherry lets users earn 30-70% cashback by posting about brands on social media - turning everyday shoppers into micro-marketers. A Swarthmore College mathematics and economics graduate, Yash previously worked as a product manager at Jupiter and at Adappt Intelligence before launching Cherry in 2024 with co-founders Sharnam Singhwal and Samarth Mahapatra.
Chad Hurley
Chad Meredith Hurley (born January 24, 1977, Reading, PA) is an American entrepreneur and tech visionary best known as the co-founder and first CEO of YouTube, which he built alongside Steve Chen and Jawed Karim in 2005 and sold to Google in October 2006 for $1.65 billion - just 18 months after launch. Armed with a Fine Arts degree from Indiana University of Pennsylvania rather than a computer science background, Hurley's design instincts shaped YouTube's iconic UI and pioneered the embeddable video player that fueled viral growth; he had previously designed the original PayPal logo during his job interview. After stepping down from YouTube in 2010, he co-founded AVOS Systems and MixBit, launched the sports gaming platform GreenPark Sports (which raised $53M+), and in 2023 founded EyeTell, an AI-powered video script generation startup. He holds minority ownership stakes in the Golden State Warriors (NBA), LA Football Club (MLS), and Leeds United (EPL), and received a Lifetime Achievement Emmy in 2019. Estimated at $700-800 million in net worth, Hurley remains a prolific investor and quiet force in Silicon Valley, famously reclusive despite his outsized impact on how the world creates and consumes video.