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Scott Holden Keeps Leaving the Comfortable Job
After banking, logistics, Salesforce, ThoughtSpot, Brex and Vanta, Scott Holden's career keeps returning to one choice: leave scale behind, find the unfinished story, and build again. In August 2026, that instinct took him to SpaceX AI by way of a first-day twist at Cursor.
Christina Cacioppo
Christina Cacioppo is the co-founder and CEO of Vanta, the agentic trust management platform that has become the default infrastructure for security compliance among modern tech companies. After stints at Union Square Ventures and Dropbox Paper, she built Vanta from a spreadsheet prototype into a $4.15 billion company serving 12,000+ organizations across 58 countries, raising $504 million in total funding. She is one of America's self-made female billionaires, known for applying rigorous first-principles thinking to the usually-dull world of corporate security.
Anarghya Vardhana
Anarghya Vardhana is a venture partner at Maveron, the consumer-only VC firm co-founded by Howard Schultz, where she has spent nearly a decade backing iconic consumer brands in health, wellness, and social tech. A Stanford grad who published a math theorem at 17, she moved from Sandia National Labs nuclear research to Google international ops to the boardrooms of startups like Co-Star, Bend Health, and Alife. Forbes named her a 30 Under 30 in VC and their First Diversity Champion across the entire class. Simultaneously serving as Investor in Residence at Vanta, she is one of the few investors who credibly bridges deep technical rigor with consumer intuition - and who also runs trail marathons and dances Bharatanatyam.
Andrew Reed
Andrew Reed is a Partner on Sequoia Capital's growth team - possibly the youngest junior partner in Sequoia's history when he joined at 23 from Goldman Sachs in 2014. Over a decade, he's built one of the most impressive growth-stage portfolios in venture capital, with board seats at Figma, Klarna, Bolt, Vanta, Strava, Warp, and Harmonic, and investments in Robinhood, ElevenLabs, Zapier, Phantom, and Sourcegraph. A childhood stutter made him a listener first, which turned into his greatest edge in founder assessment.