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Scott Nolan is General Matter’s CEO, a former Founders Fund partner, and a propulsion engineer who began at SpaceX. His path connects capital allocation and manufacturing efficiency with the effort to rebuild American nuclear infrastructure.
Deven Parekh is an Insight Partners Managing Director who has led more than 140 software and internet investments, combining early stakes with in-house scaling teams and a practical focus on software economics across changing market cycles.
Richard “Rick” Ruback is a Harvard Business School professor who, with Royce Yudkoff, formalized entrepreneurship through acquisition: skipping the startup phase to source, value, buy, and operate established, profitable small businesses through disciplined ownership.
Royce Yudkoff is a Harvard Business School professor of management practice and ABRY Partners co-founder who champions entrepreneurship through acquisition, teaching individuals to evaluate, finance, buy, and manage profitable small businesses instead of launching startups.
Packy McCormick founded Not Boring, combining a newsletter and venture fund in a media-venture flywheel. He frames the internet as “The Great Online Game” while connecting optimism, online writing, vertical integration, and renewed investment in physical technology.
Josh Kushner founded Thrive Capital to operate more like a company for founders than a conventional venture fund, using concentrated early bets and lasting partnerships while examining capital allocation and the limits of artificial intelligence.
Anu Hariharan is an investor and Avra founder who translates network effects, demand-side scale, and unit economics into clear frameworks for founders sequencing pricing, hiring, and scaling from early product-market fit through late-stage growth.
Kat Cole rose from teenage Hooters hostess to President of Cinnabon and CEO of AG1, pairing operational discipline with the “Hot Shot Rule,” which counters complacency by viewing your job through a high-performing replacement’s eyes.