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Corey Hoffstein is the co-founder and CIO of Newfound Research, translating quantitative research into investable portfolios through ideas such as Return Stacking and Liquidity Cascades, with an emphasis on capital efficiency and portfolios investors can endure through drawdowns.
Alex Gurevich is a mathematician and global macro investor whose “magic sword of necessity” framework favors trades built around conditions that must eventually hold, offering a rigorous lens on construction, risk management, and the mechanical realities of global markets.
Tido Carriero is an engineering and product executive who scaled technical organizations before co-founding Koala, advocating hiring for the “slope” of potential and practical frameworks that align engineering with go-to-market teams during rapid startup growth.
Snir Kodesh is an engineering executive and founder whose career spans Hitch, Lyft, Retool, and Petual, combining practical frameworks for scaling software organizations and planning development with technical analysis of multi-factor authentication flaws.
Sidharth Kakkar built Freckle and later launched Subscript, running companies through a strict zero-meeting, asynchronous culture where written documentation replaces calendar syncs and autonomy supports product iteration, hiring, and the demands of early-stage growth.
Shannon Brayton spent two decades leading communications before becoming Bessemer Venture Partners’ first CMO, guided by the practical belief that good PR often means quietly killing bad stories rather than chasing vanity headlines, especially through media volatility and transitions.
Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins moved from labor organizing, anti-poverty coalitions, and negotiating for Prince into technology as a co-founder of Promise, showing how reducing administrative friction in public utility debt collection can coexist with respect for financially distressed people.
Oliver Jay was Asana’s first Chief Revenue Officer and led Dropbox’s international expansion during rapid growth, later helping product-led SaaS companies build enterprise sales and global teams while diagnosing failures in hiring, upmarket strategy, and go-to-market execution.