Speakers
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Real Stories and Hard-Won Lessons from Tech's Most Successful Entrepreneurs
Jim Benton
Former CEO of Chorus.ai and Apollo.io, Alignment @ Stanford StartX
Bob Baxley
Executive Design Advisor, ex-Apple, Pinterest, Yahoo!, ThoughtSpot
Yi Shi
CEO of FlashIntel. 3 startups: 1 IPO, 1 unicorn, 1 acquired($350m)
Xiaoliang Qi
Professor at Stanford University. Co-founder of Path Integral Technology.
Marianne Bekker
Investor & Managing Partner at Founders Bay | Founder at Women Founders Bay
Vlada Bortnik
Co-founder & CEO, Marco Polo
Le Cong
Associate Professor at Stanford University School of Medicine
Xiaoyin Qu
Founder of heyBoss.ai and former CEO of Run The World
Honglei Liu
Co-Founder & CTO of Tofu
Ellie Chio
Senior Director of Engineering @ Turing, ex-Google (Brain + Research)
Jaclyn Zhuang
VP Product & GM | Ex-Meta, Google, Zoom, Twitch | Xoogler startup mentor
Soohyun Bae
Founder/CEO Podonos | YC alum | ML PhD Georgia Tech
Bruce Wang
Director Of Engineering @ Netflix, Investor / Advisor / Mentor for startups
Chang Chen
Growth Advisor | 3X exits | Ex-Otter.ai, Bardeen.ai, Heygen, Microsoft
Nancy Zheng
Founder & CEO Gensona, Former Engineering Director, Stripe & Google
Gaurav Aggarwal
CEO & Co-founder of Truva AI, Forbes 30U30
Aditya Bhatia
Growth @ Toolhouse, Serial Founder, Forbes 30U30
Anita Wang
Product Leader @ Meta, Consumer AI Agents
Bethany Wang
Staff Software Engineer & Manager @ Google
Bob Zhang
Google Gemini TLM
Bolbi Liu
Founder of AdsGency AI, Ex-DDI/AWS/Intel
Brad Bebee
General Manager, Amazon Neptune & Timestream
Coco Mao
CEO & Co-Founder of OpenArt.ai (16M ARR with 10 person team)
David Hefter
BlackRock AI Investment
Erika Bahr
Founder & CEO of Daxe
Kisson Lin
CEO of Tanka AI
Rachel Hu
CEO@CambioML | Forbes 30U30 | YC, Hub71, YUE, Berkeley Alum | ex-AWS
Russell Palmer
Co-Founder @ CyberFilm AI | ex-Microsoft, Samsung, JPMorgan
Sophia He
Founder of Story Engine, AI storytelling startup
Yinan (Steven) Na
CEO @ Creatify, The AI Video Ad Maker | Ex Snap & Meta
Emmie Chang
Founder, Yuzu Labs | YC W14, Serial Entrepreneur
Mahi De Silva
Co-Founder & CSO, Higgsfield AI($100m ARR)
Rissa Cao
Co-Founder & CEO @ Fish Audio & 39 AI
Anna Goldie
Google DeepMind , AlphaChip co-lead, ex-Anthropic | MIT | Stanford
Alice Ou
Founder & CEO at Silicon Valley Circle (SVC) || Forbes U30, Adjunct Lecturer
Andrew Lee Miller
15+ year startup marketing guy | Drove 3 exits (total $200m)
Ang Li
CEO & Co-Founder at Simular, Ex-Google DeepMind Research
Angelina Yang
Founder @ Transform AI Studio | Host @ YouTube channel TwoSetAI
Arvin Sun
CEO & Founder @ Traini, Built world's first GenAI for pets
Bei Zhang
VP of Growth at Tanka AI, Ex-Grammarly
Catherine Kurt
Co-founder @ AQ22 | AI Agents for Credit Intelligence
Catherine Liu
Partner at MagStone Law, LLP
Dr. Xuan Zhao
CEO & Co-Founder @ Flourish Science | Behavioral Scientist @ Stanford
Holly Chen
VP Growth Marketing at Samsara | Ex-Slack, Google, Loom, Miro, ServiceNow
Jay Wu
Co-Founder @ OpusClip, Cofounder & CTO | ex-Airbnb, ex-Linkedin
Jie Zhu
International Tax Partner - PP&Co | Advisor
Junyu Huang
COO @ Novita AI | YC alum, ex-Scale AI
Justin Gerrard
Former Founder | 3 Exits | Alum: Discord, Twitch, Microsoft
Nazrul Islam
Founder & CEO at CloudAEye | TechCrunch Battlefield 200
Ning Gao
Cofounder@Linkloud, ex VC@Hillhouse Capital
Priyaa K
CEO & Co-Founder of Lica World, Ex-Waymo, Snap, Microsoft
Roger Luo
Founder & Managing Partner @ Embedding VC
Samer Masterson
Staff Software Engineer at Harvey, ex-Google and Dropbox.
Shawn Pang
Co-Founder @ HashMatrix, leading growth marketing agency for AI
Susan Linwood
CEO of ChargePodX
Vish Vadlamani
Co-founder of Stealth Mode, Co-Founder of BHuman.ai
Yijia Shao
Phd Student at Stanford CS
YJ Guo
CGO @ Mathos AI (1M MAU) | Serial Founder | Growth & Monetization in AI
Yue (Lawrence) Xu
CEO @ TrustAI – Serial Entrepreneur, AI Safety Advocate, ex-Alibaba
Zecheng Zhang
Cofounder & CTO @ TraceRoot.AI (YC S25), Kumo.AI | Stanford CS MS