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#161 Acrew Capital's Founding Partner Lauren Kolodny, Alumni Ventures Independent Board Director

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#160 StepStone Group Partner Seyonne Kang

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#159 Olaplex Inc. (Nasdaq: OLPX)'s ex- President and CEO, Moroccanoil's ex - Global CEO, JuE Wong

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#158 Cisco's EVP & Chief Product Officer, Box's ex-CPO & CSO, JLL & Equinix Board Member, Jeetu Patel

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#157 Intuit Ventures' Managing Director, ex- M12 Microsoft's Venture Fund Partner Adam Coccari

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Sponsor spotlight: LG Electronics' EVP, Sokwoo Rhee

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#156 Intel Capital's Senior Managing Director Mark Rostick

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#155 True Ventures' Partner Puneet Agarwal

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#154 Greycroft's Co-Founder and Managing Partner, Ian Sigalow

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#153 Slipstream Investors' Founder and GP, QED Investors' former COO & General Counsel Alex Edelson

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#152 Trust Fund's Managing Partner, Nasty Gal's founder, Sophia Amoruso

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#151 Orangetheory Fitness CEO and Co-Founder Dave Long

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#150 Ballistic Ventures' General Partner, former Managing Director at Lightspeed, Jake Seid

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#149 Roble Ventures' Founding Partner, Sergio Monsalve

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#148 Maverick Ventures' Managing Director, Ambar Bhattacharyya

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#147 Afore Capital's Managing Partner Gaurav Jain

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#146 Canvas Ventures's Co-Founder and General Partner, Rebecca Lynn

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#145 OkCupid's Co-Founder, ex-The Match Group's CEO, Corazon Capital's Managing Director, Sam Yagan

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#144 MasterClass' CEO David Rogier

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#143 Norwest Venture Partners' General Partner, Dave Zilberman (Portfolio: Slack, DocuSign)

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#142 M13's Managing Partner, Karl Alomar, ex-COO of DigitalOcean (NYSE: DOCN)

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#141 Lead Edge Capital's Founder & Managing Partner, Mitchell Green (Portfolio: Alibaba, Spotify)

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#140 Kindred Ventures' Founder & Managing Partner, Investor of Uber, Coinbase, Postmates, Steve Jang

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Sponsor Spotlight: ft. Alumni Ventures' CEO Mike Collins | How to invest in startups as individual investors?

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#139 Science's CEO, investor, and board member of Liquid Death, Dollar Shave Club, Michael Jones

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#138 Google's Vice President and General Manager of Merchant Shopping Matt Madrigal

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#137 Wing Venture Capital's Founding Partner, Peter Wagner

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#136 Precursor Ventures' Managing Partner Charles Hudson

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#135 Lerer Hippeau's Managing Partner, Ben Lerer

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#134 Cruise's Co-Founder & Chief Product Officer, Daniel Kan

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#133 Pear VC's Founding Managing Partner, investor of DoorDash, Mar Hershenson

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#132 Founders Fund's Partner, Brex's ex - CRO, Sam Blond

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#131 PayPal's VP, ex- CMO of REVOLVE, Co-Founder of Happy Returns, David Sobie

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#130 Coatue's General Partner, Atlassian's ex-CTO, Sri Viswanath

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#129 Tome, AI Storytelling Tool Backed by Lightspeed, Coatue, Greylock Co-Founder & CEO Keith Peiris

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#128 3 Million+ TikTok followers, Casey Rosenberg, Lawyer, Part 2 | How to negotiate a brand deal

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#127 3 Million+ TikTok followers, Casey Rosenberg, Lawyer, Part 1 | How to go viral on TikTok

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#126 1 Million+ TikTok followers, Noah Jennings, Founder of Compound Creative

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#125 Chapter One's Managing Partner, ex-VP of Tinder, investor in Dapper Labs, Jeff Morris Jr.

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#124 NextVeiw Ventures Co-founder & Partner investor of thredUP, Attentive, TripleLift David Beisel

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#123 General Catalyst's Managing Director, Investor of Discord, Snap, Audius, Niko Bonatsos

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#122 MasterClass's Investor Board Member Managing Director at Javelin Venture Partners Alex Gurevich

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#121 Substack(valued $600M+)'s Co-founder, Hamish McKenzie

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#120 M13's General Partner and Investor, Latif Peracha and Mark Grace

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#119 Austin Evans, 5.34M+ subscribers and 1.26B+ views on Youtube (Creator Special)

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#118 Kong Pham, 2.4M + on Youtube, Jumpcut (YC backed) & Blu Yam's CEO & founder (Creator Special)

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#117 Polo Ralph Lauren's ex-VP, Melissa Cohen

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#116 SignalFire Partner, ex-Google, McKinsey, KPCB, Wayne Hu

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#115 Sino Global Capital's Founder and CEO Matthew Graham

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#114 Index Ventures's Partner Rex Woodbury

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#113 Vayner3's President Avery Akkineni

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#112 Convivialite Ventures Partner, Brandon Yahn, Pernod Ricard portfolio: Absolut, Jameson, Glenlivet

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#111 Alo Yoga's VP, ex - Stitch Fix, Sephora, LVMH, Dolby Laboratories, Angelic Vendette

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#110 Pepsi's CMO, Todd Kaplan

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#109 BITKRAFT Ventures Partner, Goldman Sachs's ex-VP, Moritz Baier-Lentz

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#108 Cooper Turley, Music NFT Collector, investor in Sound, Catalog, Royal, advisor at Audius

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#107 CoinFund founder & CEO, investor of CoinList, Dapper, Republic, Polkadot, Jake Brukhman

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#106 Rally, Forte, Kabam's founding CEO, SuperLayer (Venture Studio) Managing Partner Kevin Chou

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#105 Magic Eden's (Valued at $1.6B) Co-founders, CEO and COO, Jack Lu and Zhuoxun Yin

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#104 Partner at Decibel VC, investor in Databricks, Sumo Logic, Dan Nguyen-Huu

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#103 VP of OpenSea, ex VP of Meta & Spotify, product at YouTube Shiva Rajaraman

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#102 Sky Mavis (Axie Infinity)'s Co-Founder & Growth Lead Jiho Jeffrey Zirlin

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#101 LaurDIY (Lauren Riihimaki) 8.5M followers on YouTube, 21M+ followers over social media

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#100 Notion's CRO, ex-COO of Dropbox, ex-VP at Google, ex-Partner at McKinsey, Olivia Nottebohm

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#99 VidCon's ex-CEO & GM, Viacom's ex-SVP, Jim Louderback

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#97 eToro's founder & CEO, Yoni Assia

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#96 Abra's founder & CEO, Bill Barhydt

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#95 Alliance DAO's founder, CEO (Core Contributor), Imran Khan

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#94 Editor in Chief, VP of LinkedIn, Dan Roth

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#93 Partner at #Hashed, investor in Terra Money, Axie Infinity, DYDX, ZKSync, Baek Kim

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#92 AB InBev's VP (Budweiser, Corona, Stella Artois, Michelob Ultra, beer.eth, etc) Richard Oppy

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#91 Tinder's ex - CPO, Co-Founder & CEO of Scale Higher Ravi Mehta

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#90 ex-VP @Amazon, ex-TA (Chief of Staff) to Jeff Bezos, Co-Author of Working Backwards, Colin Bryar

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#89 Sephora's SVP & General Manager of Sephora @Kohl's Amy Kelly Lauer

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#88 Co-CEO & Founder of Bubble ($106.3M+ Raised) Emmanuel Straschnov

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#87 Dapper Labs' Dapper Collectives CEO Founder of Brud & Friends with Benefits DAO Trevor McFedries

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#86 AT&T Business' Chief Product & Platform Officer Rasesh Patel

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#85 Adidas's SVP of Data & Analytics, ex-SVP at Salesforce, ex- CTO of Disney, David Sobeski

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#84 CSO & Co-Founder of Health-Ade Kombucha, Vanessa Dew

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#83 Partner @ IVP, investor in Attentive, Brex, Discord, Harness, Jason Kong

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#82 Kevin Rose Partner at True Ventures exGP at Google Ventures Founder of Digg Investor of Twitter

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#81 Instagram COO Justin Osofsky

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#80 OpenSea (NFT marketplace Valued at $1.5B) Co-founder & CEO, Devin Finzer

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#79 ex-SVP Creative Development at Conde Nast Entertainment, VOGUE 73 questions, Joe Sabia

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#77 CMO of Deloitte, Suzanne Kounkel

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#76 3Blue1Brown (4.11M subscribers on YouTube) Grant Sanderson

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#75 CEO of The Atlantic, former Editor in Chief of Wired, Nicholas Thompson

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#74 Chris Voss, ex-F.B.I. hostage negotiator, WSJ Bestselling Author of Never Split The Difference

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#73 Co-Founder & CEO of Clearco ($2+Billion invested), Andrew D'Souza

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#72 VP & Chief Privacy Officer, Public Policy at Facebook Erin Egan

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#71 Co-Founder & CEO of Republic, ex-General Counsel at AngelList, Kendrick Nguyen

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#70 Co-founder & CTO of Loom (Valued at $1.53Billion), Vinay Hiremath

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#69 Chief Digital Officer at E.L.F. Beauty, Ekta Chopra

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#68 CTO of Reddit Chris Slowe

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#67 VP of Coinbase ex-General Manager of Airbnb, ex- Product at Instagram & Facebook Sanchan Saxena

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#66 VP of SAP (SAP.iO Foundries North America), Vanessa Liu

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#65 CEO of Skillshare, ex-VP of Upwork, ex-CEO of Visually Matt Cooper

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#64 Managing Partner at Uncork Capital, Investor of Postmates, Poshmark, Fitbit, Jeff Clavier

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#63 CMO at Matterport ex-CMO at WeWork ex- marketing leader @ LinkedIn Salesforce Box Robin Daniels

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#62 Founder of Craigslist & Craig Newmark Foundation, Philanthropist Craig Newmark