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Tom Rinks went from a commission only furniture showroom to designing the Taco Bell chihuahua and co founding Sun Bum. He built a $400 million sunscreen brand by applying midwestern retail lessons to packaging and guerrilla marketing.
Clay Bavor spent 18 years at Google, where he led products ranging from Workspace to Google Labs, before leaving to co found the enterprise AI company Sierra.
Antonio Swad built Pizza Patrón and Wingstop by pairing stripped down menus with specific, underserved audiences. He tailored pizza directly to Hispanic neighborhoods and proved chicken wings could carry an entire menu instead of just serving as a bar snack.
Neil Chilson is a lawyer, computer scientist, and the Head of AI Policy at the Abundance Institute. Drawing on his time as the FTC's Chief Technologist, he approaches tech regulation by watching how complex systems actually react to top down rules.
Oliver Tuszik is Cisco’s Executive Vice President and Chief Sales Officer, with a career rooted in technology sales and channel strategy. He has pushed the company toward partner led managed services to ready enterprise infrastructure for AI and digital sovereignty.
Justin Gold started making nut butters in his home food processor simply because the grocery store selection was too limited.
Jeremy Allaire is the co founder and CEO of Circle, the company behind the USDC stablecoin. After decades building internet software and video platforms, he turned to upgrading the plumbing of the global financial system.
Sergey Edunov is a physicist turned software engineer who led large scale model training at Meta for Llama 2 and machine translation.