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Ari Evans
Ari Evans is the founder and CEO of Maestro, the Los Angeles-based white-label live streaming and interactive video platform he started in 2015. He built Maestro on a simple conviction: creators and rights holders should own their audiences and data instead of renting them from algorithm-driven giants. The platform powers interactive streams, monetization and analytics for clients ranging from Billie Eilish and Post Malone to Epic Games, PlayStation and ViacomCBS, and counts Sony Music among its investors. A former Zynga product manager who ran CityVille at its peak, Evans frames the creator economy as the biggest job-creation engine since the Industrial Revolution.
Roman Giverts
Roman Giverts is the CEO and founder of VuMedi, the largest video education network for healthcare professionals, which he built from his UC Berkeley college apartment after watching his girlfriend's father — an orthopedic surgeon — prep for surgery by watching technique DVDs. Founded in 2008, VuMedi has grown to serve 600,000+ healthcare professionals across 25+ medical specialties, with a library of 100,000+ videos from institutions like the Cleveland Clinic and Mayo Clinic. In May 2025, VuMedi raised an $80M Series B, bringing total funding to $82.1M, with annual revenue of $45.5M and 260+ employees across Oakland, Minneapolis, and Zagreb, Croatia.
Susan Wojcicki
Susan Wojcicki was one of Silicon Valley's most influential leaders, serving as CEO of YouTube from 2014 to 2023 and Google's 16th employee. She rented her garage to Larry Page and Sergey Brin in 1998, joined Google as its first marketing manager, created AdWords and AdSense, and convinced Google to acquire YouTube for $1.65 billion. Under her leadership, YouTube grew to 2 billion logged-in users monthly and paid out over $30 billion to creators. A pioneering advocate for women in technology and paid parental leave, she was named one of Time's 100 most influential people and the most powerful woman on the internet. She passed away in August 2024 at age 56 after a two-year battle with lung cancer.