Sam Blond is a go-to-market operator turned founder who built his reputation scaling startup sales teams. He was VP of Sales at Zenefits and Chief Revenue Officer at Brex, where he helped drive revenue from near zero to roughly $400M ARR. After an 18-month run as a partner at Founders Fund, he decided investing was not his fit and went back to operating. In 2026 he co-founded and now leads Monaco, an AI-native sales platform for startups, alongside his brother Brian Blond.
Shannon Goggin is the co-founder and CEO of Noyo, an API-first company building modern data infrastructure for the employee benefits industry. After watching benefits data break down behind the scenes at Zenefits, she and co-founder Dennis Lee launched Noyo in 2017 to fix the plumbing that connects insurance carriers, benefits platforms, and the people who depend on accurate coverage. She has raised more than $57 million for the company, was named to the Forbes 30 Under 30 list in 2020, and calls her approach 'collaborative disruption' - rebuilding an entrenched industry by understanding it rather than ignoring it.
David Sacks is a South African-born Silicon Valley operator turned venture capitalist and political power broker. He was PayPal's first product leader and COO, founded and sold Yammer to Microsoft for $1.2 billion, rescued Zenefits as interim CEO, and co-founded Craft Ventures, which manages billions in assets. He is a co-host of the chart-topping All-In podcast and served as the first White House AI and Crypto Czar in the second Trump administration before stepping aside in March 2026.

Parker Conrad is the co-founder and CEO of Rippling, a $16.8B HR and IT platform revolutionizing enterprise software. After being forced to resign from Zenefits in 2016 amid compliance scandals, he staged one of Silicon Valley's most dramatic comebacks, building Rippling into a unicorn that surpassed his previous company's peak valuation. Worth $2.3B, Conrad pioneered the controversial 'compound startup' philosophy - building multiple products in parallel rather than focusing narrowly - and is known for his impatient drive, contrarian thinking, and obsession with detail. From studying sea snail brains as a teenager to running payroll for 5,000 employees, he embodies the resilient, ambitious founder archetype.