Speakers

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  Stacey Abrams

  Fair Fight Action

  Board Chair

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  Biz Stone

  Twitter + Future Positive

  Co-Founder

  See Bio
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  Tamar Yehoshua

  Slack

  Chief Product Officer

  See Bio
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  Geoff Ralston

  Y Combinator

  President

  See Bio
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  Jeff Lawson

  Twilio

  Founder + CEO

  See Bio
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  Michelle Zatlyn

  Cloudflare

  Co-founder, President + COO

  See Bio
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  Henry Ward

  Carta

  CEO

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  Benoit Dageville

  Snowflake

  Co-founder + President of Product

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  Lucy Liu

  Airwallex

  Co-Founder + President

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  Parker Conrad

  Rippling

  Co-Founder + CEO

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  Melissa Alvarado

  Chime

  CMO

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  Markus Villig

  Bolt

  Founder + CEO

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  Noah Kerner

  Acorns

  CEO

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  Hayley Barna

  First Round Capital + Birchbox

  Partner + Co-Founder

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  Harry Stebbings

  The Twenty Minute VC

  Founder

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  Eren Bali

  Carbon Health

  Co-Founder + CEO

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  Sriram Krishnan

  Andreessen Horowitz

  General Partner

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  Hernan Kazah

  Kaszek Ventures

  Co-Founder + Managing Partner

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  Alda Leu Dennis

  Initialized Capital

  General Partner

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  George Arison

  Shift

  Co-Founder + Co-CEO

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Stacey Abrams

Fair Fight Action

Stacey Abrams is the two-time New York Times bestselling author of Our Time is Now and Lead from the Outside, an entrepreneur, and political leader. A tax attorney by training, she served eleven years in the Georgia House of Representatives, seven as Minority Leader, and became the 2018 Democratic nominee for governor of Georgia. She has launched multiple organizations devoted to voting rights, training and hiring young people of color, and tackling social issues at the state, national, and international levels. 

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Biz Stone

Twitter + Future Positive

Biz is a co-founder of Twitter, Medium, and Jelly. A progenitor of social media, and early Google employee, Biz has long been developing large scale systems that serve the global conversation. As an investor, Biz has backed notable startups such as Square, Slack, and Beyond Meat. In 2017, Pinterest acquired Jelly. As of late he's spent much of his time mentoring and investing in startups in the health, future of work, and sustainability through his new fund, Future Positive. Biz has been recognized as one of TIME's 100 Most Influential People and is a Fellow at the University of Oxford.

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Tamar Yehoshua

Slack

Tamar Yehoshua oversees product strategy and development, design, and research at Slack.Previously, Tamar was a Vice President at Google holding product and engineering leadership roles on Google’s most important products, including Search, Identity and Privacy. Prior to that, she was the Vice President of Advertising Technologies at Amazon’s A9.Tamar has a BA in Mathematics from the University of Pennsylvania and an MSc in Computer Science from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

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Geoff Ralston

Y Combinator

Geoff Ralston is the President of Y Combinator and has been with YC since 2011. Prior to YC, he built one of the first web mail services, RocketMail, which became Yahoo Mail in 1997. While at Yahoo, Geoff worked in engineering and ran a business unit before becoming Chief Product Officer. After Yahoo, he was the CEO of Lala, which was acquired in 2009 by Apple. In 2011, he cofounded Imagine K12, the first Ed Tech accelerator, which funded companies like ClassDojo and Remind, and merged with YC in 2016. He has an AB in Computer Science from Dartmouth, an MS in Computer Science from Stanford, and an MBA from INSEAD.

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Jeff Lawson

Twilio

Jeff Lawson is the founder and CEO of Twilio. A serial entrepreneur and a software developer, Jeff co-founded Twilio in 2008 to bring communications into the world of software. He is also the author of Ask Your Developer, a new playbook for unleashing the full potential of software developers in any organization, showing management how to unleash this workforce to enable growth, solve a wide range of business problems and drive digital transformation. Prior to Twilio, Jeff was co-founder & CTO of NineStar, founding CTO of Stubhub.com, and one of the first product managers for Amazon Web Services.

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Michelle Zatlyn

Cloudflare

Michelle Zatlyn is co-founder, President and COO of Cloudflare, the Internet security, performance, and reliability company on a mission to help build a better Internet. Cloudflare is a publicly traded company on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: NET). Prior to co-founding Cloudflare, Michelle held positions at Google and Toshiba and launched two successful startups. Michelle sits on the World Economic Forum Young Global Leaders Foundation Board. Michelle has been named to Fortune’s 40 Under 40 list and was part of Marie Claire’s 7th Annual New Guard. She holds a B.S. degree, with distinction, from McGill University, and an MBA from Harvard Business School, where she was awarded the Dubilier Prize for Entrepreneurship.

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Henry Ward

Carta

Henry Ward is the CEO and co-founder of Carta, a company that continues to revolutionize the way founders, investors, and employees manage equity and ownership. Since founding Carta in 2012, Carta has grown to manage hundreds of billions of dollars in equity. Companies including Robinhood, Tilray, and Union Square Ventures trust Carta to provide things like fund administration, 409A valuations, cap table management and scenario modeling. Carta has been included on the Forbes “World’s Best Cloud Companies”, Fast Company's Most Innovative list, and Inc.’s Fastest Growing Private Companies. Prior to Carta, Henry was founder and CEO of Secondsight, a portfolio optimization platform for retail investors. He also held leadership positions at software companies including Reddwerks Inc. and BetweenMarkets. Henry graduated from University of Michigan with a BGS in Mathematics and Computer Science and holds a MSC in Market Finance from EDHEC Business School.

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Benoit Dageville

Snowflake

Benoit co-founded Snowflake and currently serves as President of the Product division. Benoit is a leading expert in parallel execution and self-tuning database systems. Prior to founding Snowflake, Benoit was with Oracle for over 10 years as a lead architect for parallel execution in Oracle RAC and a key architect in the SQL Manageability group. Prior to Oracle, Benoit worked at Bull Information Systems. He helped define the architecture and lead database performance efforts for Bull’s parallel systems. Benoit has a PhD in Computer Science with a focus in Parallel Database Systems and holds more than 80 patents.

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Lucy Liu

Airwallex

Lucy Liu is President and Co-founder at Airwallex. She is responsible for the company’s branding and operations. Before establishing Airwallex in 2015 with her co-founders, Lucy was an investment consultant in CICC (China International Capital Corporation) and served as a board director of Hong Stone Investment Development Limited, a Hong Kong based investment company.Lucy has won a series of awards for her outstanding entrepreneurial achievements including Forbes “Asia’s Top 25 Power Businesswomen” 2020, Ernst & Young ""Top 22 Entrepreneurial Winning Women in APAC” (2020), Fintech Australia Female Leader of the Year (2018) and Forbes “30 Young Entrepreneurs in Asia” (2017).

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Parker Conrad

Rippling

Parker Conrad believes that sometimes you’re the fire hydrant, sometimes you’re the dog. He speaks from experience -- he graduated from Harvard after flunking out, beat testicular cancer at 24, founded three companies, and left two of them. In 2013, he launched Zenefits, the first all-in-one HR platform that allowed businesses to sign up and manage payroll and benefits online. Today he leads Rippling, the only platform that unifies every employee system across departments to truly automate administrative work.

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Melissa Alvarado

Chime

Melissa serves as chief marketing officer of Chime, overseeing analytics, brand and growth marketing. Prior to joining Chime, Melissa held senior-level roles at mobile banking app PageOnce (now part of Intuit), and advertising technology firm Adchemy. Melissa began her career at Capital One as an analyst for the risk group. A native of Honduras, Melissa holds a BS in industrial engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology, and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. She is an accomplished triathlete and has completed five full Ironman triathlons.

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Markus Villig

Bolt

Bolt is the leading European mobility platform that’s focused on making urban travel more affordable, convenient and responsible. The company’s services range from ride-hailing to micromobility with e-scooters and electric bikes to food and package delivery.Markus teamed up with his brother Martin, ex-Skype, to build the first version of Bolt in 2013 when he was 19 years old. Markus has been featured as the youngest tech CEO in Forbes Europe 30 under 30 list and is the youngest founder of a billion-dollar company in Europe.

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Noah Kerner

Acorns

Born in New York City’s east village, Noah Kerner is the CEO of the micro-investing app Acorns and co-founder of the shareholder rights startup Say. His background is colorful: 4X entrepreneur, Co-author of "Chasing Cool” with the former CEO of Barneys, and former DJ for Jennifer Lopez. In his 20s, Noah built the leading creative agency for the young adult market, Noise. Before being acquired by Engine, Noise developed hundreds of products and marketing campaigns for this generation including Facebook’s first application, the first credit card to reward responsibility rather than spending for Chase, Vice's music site Noisey, and the top branded game in the App Store. Noah has been recognized as one of Billboard Magazine’s “Top 30 Under 30,” AdWeek’s “Top 20 Under 40,” Fast Company’s “Innovation Agents” and “Impact Council” members, and as a judge for the Webby Awards. He has also advised and invested in a variety of fast-growing startups, including WeWork, where he served as the first Chief Strategy & Marketing Officer from 2013-2014. Passionate about educating today’s youth, Noah has lectured on entrepreneurialism, fintech, and media at NYU, UCLA, Stanford, and Columbia and currently serves on the Board of VH1's Save The Music Foundation. Noah is a graduate of Cornell University where he studied Psychology and Economics.

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Hayley Barna

First Round Capital + Birchbox

Hayley Barna is a Partner at First Round Capital based in New York. Prior to joining First Round she co-founded and scaled Birchbox, the leading beauty and grooming retailer seed funded by First Round in 2010. Since joining First Round in 2016, Hayley has led investments across many industries and business models including healthcare, consumer, tech-enabled hardware and marketplaces among others.

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Harry Stebbings

The Twenty Minute VC

Harry Stebbings is the Founder of The Twenty Minute VC, the world's largest media asset in Venture Capital with over 16m downloads per month, partnerships with Mattermark and ProductHunt and guests from over 2,500 leading VC’s including Sequoia, Founders Fund, Y Combinator, Benchmark, Accel and Index. Harry currently invests with Jason Lemkin out of SaaStr, San Francisco's pre-eminent SaaS fund. Previously, Harry has worked with Atomico (the UK’s largest venture capital fund) as an EiR where he worked to establish Atomico's west coast presence and provide follow-on funding options to the current European portfolio. Harry has also been featured in the likes of WIRED, TechCrunch and Business Insider. 

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Eren Bali

Carbon Health

Eren Bali is the CEO and co-founder of Carbon Health. Eren leads the Carbon team towards his vision to democratize healthcare and make quality care accessible for everyone. Previously, Eren paved the way to make education accessible by founding Udemy, the world's largest marketplace for online courses, with more than 10 million students worldwide. In his youth, Eren was a star mathematician, winning awards in mathematics, physics, computer science and chess including the International Mathematical Olympiads. He still loves chess today and plays to unwind after a long day at the office.

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Sriram Krishnan

Andreessen Horowitz

Sriram Krishnan is a general partner at Andreessen Horowitz where he invests in early stage consumer startups. Today, Sriram serves on the boards of Bitski, Hopin, and Polywork.

Prior to joining a16z, Sriram held numerous senior product roles. Most recently, he led core consumer teams at Twitter where he was responsible for products including the home timeline, new user experience, search, discovery, and audience growth. Before this, Sriram created and oversaw various mobile ad products for both Snap and Facebook, including Snap’s Direct Response ads business and the Facebook Audience Network, one of the largest networks in display advertising.

Sriram started his career at Microsoft where he touched numerous projects related to Windows Azure. He is the author of "Programming Windows Azure" published by O'Reilly.

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Hernan Kazah

Kaszek Ventures

Hernan Kazah is a Managing Partner and cofounder of Kaszek Ventures, the largest early stage venture capital firm in Latin America, having raised over $1B in five different funds. The firm was launched in mid 2011 and has invested in more than 70 startups throughout the region. Some of its portfolio companies are NuBank, QuintoAndar, Creditas, GymPass, MadeiraMadeira, Loggi, Konfio, Kavak, NotCo.Before Kaszek Ventures, Hernan cofounded MercadoLibre in 1999 where he worked until mid 2011, the first 9 years as its COO and then as its CFO.Prior to this, he worked as Brand Manager at Procter & Gamble, and was a finance analyst at the United Nations Development Program and the Ministry of Economy of Argentina.He received an MBA from Stanford University, and graduated magna cum laude in Economics from the University of Buenos Aires.Mr. Kazah was also selected Endeavor Entrepreneur in 1999, awarded “The Outstanding Young Persons of Argentina” recognition by the Junior Chamber International in 2004, chosen Established Endeavor Entrepreneur in 2009, and selected Entrepreneur Master of the Year 2018 by Ernst & Young Argentina.

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Alda Leu Dennis

Initialized Capital

Alda brings over a decade of investing and legal experience to Initialized Capital. Prior to Initialized, she was a managing partner at 137 Ventures where she led investments in Planet Labs, Wish, Coupang, CourseHero, and Work Market. Additionally, she made personal early-stage investments in companies such as Maven, Common Networks, Legalzoom, SpaceX, and Osaro. Previously she was COO at Airtime, General Counsel at Founders Fund, Assistant General Counsel at Peter Thiel’s Clarium Capital Management, and practiced as a litigator for IP disputes at WSGR. She graduated from Stanford with BAs in economics and political science, and a JD from UCLA.

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George Arison

Shift

George Arison is the Co-founder and Co-CEO of Shift, an online marketplace innovating the car sales industry. Previously, he co-founded Taxi Magic (now known as Curb), the first on-demand mobile transportation booking technology, and worked at Google and BCG. A Georgian immigrant, he was also the first student from the Soviet Union allowed to attend a private U.S. high school without a government sponsorship. He holds a BA in Political Science from Middlebury College.