Bill Gross is the Founder and Chairman of Idealab Studio in Pasadena, CA. Bill has helped launch over 150+ companies and raise $3.5B+ in venture capital. Bill most recently helped take Heliogen and Energy Vault IPO in 2022.

Howard is Chairman of B Capital venture capital group. Howard is also the Founder of First Round Capital (Uber, Roblox, etc.). Outside of his professional work, Howard sits across the boards of several philanthropic organizations, and is a Trustee at Cornell University in New York.

John Castaldo has over a decade of experience building advanced models in data science for various startups. Johnny and Josh Schachter last worked together at BCG Digital Ventures where they helped the 2nd largest US BPO provider build an NLP system to detect the nature inbound customer conversations.

Steve (Slava) is the CEO of the Nimble group, an advanced technology outsourcing firm. Slava is a former Founder-in-Residence for Idealab Studio. He has helped launch dozens of companies in over twenty years working in software development.