Entities

New York attorney, angel investor, and founder of Cytowski & Partners. Advises startups, venture investors, and European founders entering the US market. An early investor in ElevenLabs.

Founder and CEO of Pershing Square, known for concentrated, research-driven investments and active engagement with portfolio companies. Previously co-founded Gotham Partners and worked in real-estate investment banking. Executive chairman of Howard Hughes Holdings and co-trustee of the Pershing Square Foundation, whose philanthropy includes health, medicine and neuroscience. Holds a Harvard MBA and undergraduate degree. In August 2026, announced plans for the Ackman Oxman Institute, focused on brain research, rehabilitation, BCI development and longevity, with venture funding for translating research into patient-facing technologies.

Chairman and CEO of Roubini Macro Associates and Professor Emeritus at NYU Stern. His official biography also lists roles as Senior Economic Strategist at Hudson Bay Capital and Chief Economist and Portfolio Manager at Atlas Capital Team. An economist focused on international finance, macroeconomic risk and geopolitics, he previously served at the White House Council of Economic Advisers and the US Treasury. Holds a Harvard PhD and has written extensively on financial crises and global economic risks.

OpenAI co-founder and Head of AI Resilience at the OpenAI Foundation, appointed in March 2026. Works on AI safety, alignment and society's preparedness for advanced AI. Previously led OpenAI teams working on robotics, code generation, language models and human data, with contributions to Codex, GPT-4 and reasoning models. Earned a PhD at NYU with Yann LeCun and Rob Fergus.

Independent AI researcher and educator producing technical and general-audience courses on neural networks and large language models. A founding member of OpenAI and former Director of AI at Tesla, where he led the Autopilot computer-vision team. Returned to OpenAI in 2023–2024 to build a team working on midtraining and synthetic data. Earned his Stanford PhD with Fei-Fei Li and designed and taught Stanford's CS231n deep-learning course.

Founder of DeepLearning.AI, Managing General Partner at AI Fund, Managing Partner at AI Aspire, Executive Chairman of LandingAI, and co-founder and chairman of Coursera. An adjunct professor at Stanford, he previously led Google Brain, served as Baidu's chief scientist, and directed the Stanford AI Lab. His work spans machine learning, online education and creating AI companies. Holds a UC Berkeley PhD in computer science.

Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Coinbase, the cryptocurrency platform serving consumers, institutions and developers. Leads the company's work on crypto adoption, economic freedom and financial infrastructure. Writes publicly about Coinbase's strategy, decentralization and building an AI-native company. A speaker in the Network State community. Distinct from Bryan Johnson, the Blueprint and Kernel founder.

Co-founder and partner at Gigafund; professionally known as Luke Nosek. Co-founded PayPal, where he was VP of Marketing and Strategy, and later co-founded Founders Fund with Peter Thiel and Ken Howery. Led Founders Fund's first SpaceX investment in 2008 and has served on SpaceX's board. Also associated with boards including Last Energy, ResearchGate and Luminous Computing. Focuses on backing ambitious companies over long horizons.

CEO and co-founder of Flourish, developing energy-efficient AI, and a venture partner at Lux Capital. A computational neuroscientist with a Columbia PhD, he co-founded CTRL-labs, acquired by Meta in 2019, and led research on non-invasive neuromotor interfaces using surface EMG. Earlier initiated Microsoft's Internet Explorer project and served as Openwave CTO. Co-author of the 2025 Nature paper on generic neuromotor interfaces for human-computer interaction; joined Columbia's board of trustees in September 2026.

Founder of Network School, author of The Network State and technology investor. Former CTO of Coinbase and former general partner at Andreessen Horowitz. Co-founded Earn.com, Counsyl, Teleport and Coin Center; his background combines entrepreneurship, crypto infrastructure and genomics research. Holds Stanford degrees including a PhD in electrical engineering. Hosts the Network State podcast, including an interview with Bryan Johnson.

Co-founder and CEO of Hugging Face, the platform and community for sharing and building machine-learning models, datasets and applications. Leads its work on open AI collaboration and commercial partnerships that make models and infrastructure accessible to researchers and developers. Publishes as Clem on Hugging Face, where his interests include multimodal models, time series, biology and chemistry.

Leads compute at Meta and is an early-stage technology investor, often alongside Nat Friedman through their NFDG partnership. Co-founded Safe Superintelligence and previously co-founded Cue, acquired by Apple in 2013. Ran AI and search projects at Apple from 2013 to 2017 and later served as a Y Combinator partner, starting its AI program. His investments span AI, developer infrastructure and enterprise software.

AI product leader at Meta and technology investor, known for co-founding NFDG with Daniel Gross. Previously CEO of GitHub from 2018 to 2021 and co-founder of Xamarin and Ximian. Supports scientific projects including the Vesuvius Challenge to read ancient Herculaneum scrolls and PlasticList's testing of chemicals in food. Serves on the Arc Institute board.

Co-founder of Square (now Block), co-founder and General Partner at FINTOP Capital, and founder of FastTrials, which works to streamline clinical trials. Serves on the boards of Block and Emerson Electric. Previously founded LaunchCode, Invisibly and Third Degree Glass Factory. An entrepreneur, inventor and glass artist, he wrote The Innovation Stack about building businesses through interlocking innovations.

Technology entrepreneur and investor who runs Gil & Co, a multi-stage investment firm. Co-founded Color Health and Mixer Labs, which was acquired by Twitter, where he became a vice president; previously worked on AI and mobile at Google. An early investor in numerous AI and infrastructure companies, he co-hosts No Priors and wrote High Growth Handbook. Holds an MIT PhD and has supported longevity research and companies.

Programmer, essayist and investor who co-founded Y Combinator with Jessica Livingston, Robert Morris and Trevor Blackwell. Previously co-founded Viaweb, acquired by Yahoo in 1998. Writes extensively about startups, entrepreneurship and programming at paulgraham.com; author of Hackers & Painters and books on Lisp, and creator of the Bel programming language. Holds a Harvard PhD in computer science.

Chief Executive Officer and co-founder of OpenAI, leading the company developing ChatGPT, frontier AI models and the infrastructure supporting them. Previously president of Y Combinator and co-founder of Loopt. An entrepreneur and technology investor, he writes about startups, economic growth and the long-term implications of AI on his personal blog.

Co-founder of Discovery Loop, launched in 2026 with Sanjay Ghemawat, Quoc Le and Oriol Vinyals to automate machine-learning research and scientific experimentation. Previously Google's Chief Scientist for Google Research and DeepMind and a co-founder of Google Brain, with decades of work on large-scale computing and AI infrastructure. His career includes contributions to MapReduce and Google's machine-learning systems. The current company site and August 2026 founding announcement supersede older Google biographies.

Co-founder of World Labs, developing spatial intelligence and world models, and Sequoia Professor of Computer Science at Stanford. Founding co-director of Stanford's Human-Centered AI Institute; previously directed Stanford's AI Lab and served as Google Cloud's chief scientist for AI/ML during a sabbatical. Known for creating ImageNet and the ImageNet Challenge. Her research spans computer vision, machine learning and cognitive neuroscience.

Consumer technology and AI investor who announced his departure from Andreessen Horowitz in 2026 to start his own fund. Previously a16z partner, with investments including ElevenLabs, Function Health, Partiful and Slingshot AI. Earlier worked on growth at Snap and served as CFO at Bungalow. Writes about consumer AI, distribution, engagement and monetization. His own writing identifies @kirbyman01 as his X account.

President and co-founder of OpenAI, working on frontier AI systems, engineering and company strategy. Previously CTO of Stripe, helping grow its engineering organization from an early startup. His projects include OpenAI Gym, OpenAI Five, the OpenAI API and large-scale model training. Writes about software engineering and technology at gregbrockman.com and his personal blog.

Entrepreneur behind Blueprint and the Don't Die community, focused on longevity and health measurement. Founder of Kernel, developing non-invasive brain measurement technology, and OS Fund, which backs science-based companies. His work connects consumer health, neurotechnology and investment in scientific engineering. Appeared at the Network State Conference and on Balaji Srinivasan's Network State podcast. Distinct from Coinbase co-founder Brian Armstrong.