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Andrew Dudum founded Hims & Hers to normalize treatment for conditions such as hair loss and erectile dysfunction, bringing earlier venture-studio experience to the challenge of taking uncomfortable bets, earning consumer trust, and scaling healthcare businesses efficiently.
Andrew Bialecki co-founded Klaviyo, bootstrapped the marketing platform before taking it public, and leads with capital efficiency, learning capacity over polished résumés, and the conviction that a company is always “1% done,” connecting funding discipline with resilience.
Andre Agassi won eight Grand Slam titles while deeply resenting tennis, then turned toward charter schools for underserved children, offering a stark lens on elite competition’s isolation and the struggle to build an identity apart from public expectations.
Anca Dragan, a UC Berkeley professor and Google DeepMind’s head of AI Safety and Alignment, studies how robots and AI can assist people safely by distinguishing predictable from legible motion and treating alignment as a cooperative game.
Amy Howe moved from McKinsey partner to senior leadership at Ticketmaster and FanDuel, building experience scaling consumer technology companies in fast, heavily regulated markets and sharpening practical lessons on rapid growth, protected thinking time, and capable teams.
Amit Bendov, Gong’s co-founder and CEO, built revenue intelligence around actual customer interactions rather than subjective CRM entries, exposing how specialized AI can improve decisions while yielding broader lessons on startup scale and discovering what buyers truly want.
Amelia LeRutte, SaaStr’s Chief AI Officer, runs more than twenty AI agents in production and emphasizes the unglamorous discipline behind a functioning agent stack, making daily maintenance—not theoretical hype—the operating principle most worth close study.
Alice Bentinck is the CEO and co-founder of Entrepreneur First, which funds people before they have teams or ideas. She also co-founded Code First Girls and studies how founder potential can be cultivated.