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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.
Mukundu Kumaran and the three-page plan
After years building advertising technology at Yahoo, Mukundu Kumaran co-founded C1X to make its complicated transactions easier to manage. His career keeps returning to a practical question: can the people using the software get the work done?
Jorge Zamora and the Value of a Small Shortcut
Before GoLinks, Jorge Zamora drew plans for physical infrastructure and taught himself to build a social network. His next idea came from noticing how much useful software stayed trapped inside big companies.
Rob Solomon and the trouble with getting bigger
From Yahoo and Groupon to GoFundMe, Kite and H55, Rob Solomon has spent his career working out what happens when an idea has to become an organization.
Jennifer Stephens Acree and the art of a useful conversation
She learned communications on Capitol Hill and at Yahoo, then built JSA+Partners around candid advice. After the Los Angeles fires, Jennifer Stephens Acree put those relationships to work for businesses trying to begin again.
Jerry Yang and the value of a good guide
He helped people find their way around the web. Three decades after Yahoo began, Jerry Yang is still making introductions - between founders and capital, Asia and America, and old ink and new audiences.
Nirav Tolia’s theory of the people next door
A Cowboys fan found his people on the early internet. Three startups and a return to Nextdoor later, Nirav Tolia is still working out how strangers become useful to one another.
Doug Hirsch keeps finding things that should be easier
From a teenage DJ booth to Yahoo, Facebook and GoodRx, Doug Hirsch has kept asking why ordinary tasks take so much effort. His next chapter brings him back to small teams, rough prototypes and the pleasure of making something useful.
Amr Awadallah and the question that keeps changing
He came from Cairo to Stanford expecting to become a professor. Three startups later, Amr Awadallah’s career traces a different education: how to turn information into something people can actually use.
Prashant Kirtane and the trip that never quite ends
After years building internet products and vacation rentals, Prashant Kirtane turned to the work that follows a work trip. His journey from Yahoo to WegoPro begins with a familiar nuisance: getting the expenses done.
Fouad ElNaggar and the trouble with a working hour
At CBS, Fouad ElNaggar saw people building the future with software from the past. After Sapho and its sale to Citrix, he took a larger question to Array: what does an hour of work actually tell us?
Jeff Zheng and the Importance of Being Nearby
After years teaching computers what people want to read, NewsBreak founder Jeff Zheng turned his attention to the neighborhood. A coffee shop in Mountain View helps explain where he wants to go next.
Yahoo’s next act is hiding in your daily habits
The old web portal is putting AI into the inboxes, stock watchlists and sports routines people already use. Its advantage is a familiar front door. The hard part is making it worth opening again.
The 'Miracle Worker' Behind ServiceNow's Brand Calendar
Before she managed the tempo around ServiceNow's brand leaders, Shawntae Tehrani-Austen spent years learning the unforgiving clock of digital advertising. Her career is a study in the operational work that makes creative ambition possible.
Arnab Bhattacharjee Has Spent a Career Finding the Signal
Before recruiting became an AI arms race, Arnab Bhattacharjee was building the machinery of web search. At Consider, he is applying the same patient obsession with relevance to a more human question: who should meet whom next?
Frank Weishaupt
Frank Weishaupt is the CEO of Owl Labs, the Boston company behind the Meeting Owl, a 360-degree video conferencing device built for hybrid meetings. He joined in 2018 after two decades in sales and operations leadership at CarGurus, Criteo, Jumptap and Yahoo, and has since made Owl Labs a widely cited voice on the future of work through its annual State of Hybrid Work Report.
Ohad Rozen
Ohad Rozen is the co-founder and CEO of Tymely, a New York and Israel based startup building an AI agent that resolves complex e-commerce customer service tickets end-to-end. A former NLP research scientist at Amazon and Yahoo with a PhD from Bar-Ilan University, Rozen previously ran the guided-onboarding startup Toonimo. Tymely has raised roughly $15.25M across seed and Series B rounds, backed by Hetz Ventures, DESCOvery (D.E. Shaw's venture studio), and 97212 Ventures.
Alvaro Morales
Alvaro Morales is the co-founder and CEO of Orb, the flexible billing engine behind companies like Vercel, Perplexity and Replit. Raised in Lima, Peru and trained as a computer scientist at MIT, he built products at Yahoo, Palantir and spent five years as an engineering leader at Asana, where he watched pricing changes that should have taken minutes drag on for months. In 2021 he and CTO Kshitij Grover founded Orb to let companies ship pricing as fast as they ship product. In June 2026, payments giant Adyen agreed to acquire Orb for $335 million.
Greg Cohn
Greg Cohn is the co-founder and CEO of Ad Hoc Labs, the Los Angeles product studio behind Burner, the app that pioneered disposable, on-demand phone numbers back in 2012. A former Yahoo product leader who spent his early career in book publishing and content strategy, Cohn built Burner after his first app failed, turning that stumble into a durable, privacy-focused business that has outlived most of its venture-funded peers. He is an advocate for building consumer apps that deliver lasting value over chasing hypergrowth.
Allie Janoch
Allie Janoch is the CEO and co-founder of Mapistry, a Berkeley-born software company that turns the soul-crushing paperwork of environmental compliance into maps, mobile inspections and automated alerts for industrial and manufacturing companies. A computer-vision engineer by training - MIT Lincoln Labs, IQ Engines, Yahoo's Flickr - she walked out of a comfortable Silicon Valley job in 2013 to build software for stormwater permits, of all things, alongside her husband and environmental-engineer co-founder Ryan Janoch. The bet: regulations don't have to be the enemy of either the economy or clean water.
Samuel Ethiopia
Samuel Ethiopia is the CEO and co-founder of DocSpera, a Silicon Valley surgical coordination platform used by thousands of surgeons and 300-plus health systems to synchronize the messy stretch between a surgical decision and a patient's recovery. A chemical engineer turned strategy consultant turned operator, he carried a Kellogg MMM dual degree and stints at Dow, Eli Lilly, PwC's Strategy&, and Yahoo into the operating room's back office, where he now bets that real-time, AI-driven data can make surgery run on time. He also co-founded The Par Fund to back underrepresented entrepreneurs.
Adam Hyder
Adam Hyder is the Chief Development Officer and EVP of Engineering at Juniper Square, the private-markets technology company building the operating system for fund administration, investor relations, and partnership enablement. A technology leader with more than two decades of experience, he has run engineering and product at Malwarebytes, BlueJeans Network, Jobvite, and Yahoo HotJobs, and started his career working on Java in its earliest days at Sun Microsystems. He is known for scaling distributed global teams, shipping large-scale SaaS, consumer, and enterprise products, and turning sprawling roadmaps into shipped software.
Ankarino Lara
Ankarino Lara is a product-minded entrepreneur who co-founded Thismoment, a San Francisco enterprise content-marketing platform that helped global brands collect, curate and publish user-generated content across social channels. A Harvard-trained archaeologist who once conserved Maya artifacts at the Peabody Museum, Lara moved from museums to the early consumer web, building products at CNET and Yahoo! before launching Thismoment in 2008 around the idea that the basic unit of human experience is the 'Moment.'
Tod Sacerdoti
Tod Sacerdoti is a two-time founder and prolific seed investor. He built BrightRoll into a video ad-tech powerhouse that Yahoo bought for $640 million in 2014, then reassembled the band to start Pipedream, a developer integration platform that Workday acquired in early 2026. As a general partner at Flex Capital he has backed 400-plus companies at the seed stage, including Chime, Vercel, Replit and Mercury.
Danielle McMeekin
Danielle McMeekin is Vice President and Head of Global Media Sales (also titled Head of Global Performance Sales) at Microsoft Advertising, where she leads the company's worldwide media and performance sales strategy. Based in Orlando, Florida, she brings over two decades of experience in digital advertising, having risen through sales leadership roles at Yahoo! before joining Microsoft. A recognized voice on the future of search and AI-powered advertising, she co-authors thought leadership on conversational search, multimodal discovery, and generative AI's transformation of performance marketing. She received Microsoft Advertising's Client Obsession FY25 Award for her work building powerful partnerships with clients and partners.
Jacqueline Reses
Jacqueline 'Jackie' Reses is the Chair and CEO of Lead Bank, a Kansas City-based chartered bank she acquired in 2022 and transformed into a banking-as-a-service powerhouse serving fintech builders. Previously, she built Square Capital from zero into a multi-billion dollar lending business at Square (now Block), served as a board member at Alibaba through its historic 2014 IPO, led 41 transactions as Yahoo's Chief Development Officer, and spent seven years at Goldman Sachs in M&A. A Wharton-trained economist from Atlantic City, she co-authored 'Self-Made Boss' and holds patents in payments, credit, and cryptocurrency. Lead Bank closed a $70M Series B in September 2025 at a $1.47B valuation backed by a16z, Ribbit Capital, Coatue, and Khosla Ventures.
Jeremy Baker
Jeremy Baker is the Co-Founder and CTO of Zipline, the enterprise SaaS platform that connects corporate retail strategy to the frontline store employees executing it. A self-taught developer who skipped university to build a web design company at 16, he previously co-founded MightyHive (acquired by S4 Capital for $150M) and spent five years as a Senior Prototyper at Yahoo. Based in West Vancouver, BC, he built Zipline alongside CEO Melissa Wong to serve over 170,000 retail employees across brands like Gap, LUSH, Sephora, and LEGO.
Naveen Gupta
Naveen Gupta is the co-founder and CEO of Birdeye, a Palo Alto-based AI-powered customer experience platform that serves over 100,000 businesses globally. Inspired by a personal struggle to find a quality surgeon for his mother at Stanford, Naveen and his brother Neeraj built Birdeye in 2012 to help businesses manage their online reputation and grow through customer feedback. Under his leadership, Birdeye crossed $100M ARR in 2023, raised over $93M in total funding, and pioneered what Naveen calls 'Experience Marketing' - the discipline of turning customer satisfaction into organic growth. A veteran of Yahoo and RingCentral, he brings deep product and operational expertise to one of SaaS's quietest success stories.
Ashish Aggarwal
Ashish Aggarwal is a General Partner at Chamaeleon, a San Francisco-based early-stage venture firm. He invests in seed and Series A consumer, vertical SaaS, AI, and crypto startups, drawing on 18+ years as an operator, two-time founder, and investor. A Kauffman Fellow (Class 24), he previously led investments at Grishin Robotics in companies like Ziva Dynamics (acquired by Unity), Taskade, ClubFeast, and Spin (acquired by Ford). Before VC, he ran M&A and corporate strategy at Opera Software, marketing analytics at Dell, and built ad infrastructure at Yahoo!.
Eric Ye
Eric Ye is a General Partner at Eastlink Capital, a Menlo Park-based early-stage VC firm backing AI and data infrastructure founders. A seasoned technologist turned investor, Eric spent over a decade at eBay as Director of Tech Platform and Principal Architect before serving as CTO, SVP of Technology, and Chief Scientist at Ctrip (NASDAQ: TCOM), the world's second-largest online travel agency, where he led 4,000+ engineers and architected the company's transformation into a cloud-native, mobile-first marketplace. Holder of 31 U.S. and China patents, winner of China's Best CTO Award, and a founding partner of Eminence Ventures, Eric now backs mission-driven founders at the seed-to-Series-B stage across AI/ML, distributed databases, cloud infrastructure, fintech, and enterprise software.