Andrew Chen is a venture investor with growth-scientist experience who led Uber's Rider Growth through hypergrowth, built experiment-driven systems, and authored The Cold Start Problem—a standard playbook on network effects.

Sarah Tavel is a former Pinterest product lead and investor with product-growth expertise in consumer marketplaces, author of Hierarchy of Marketplaces and Happy GMV, and proponent of social-first consumer AI.

Sarah Guo became a GP in her twenties, early AI believer who hosts No Priors, champions practical AI infrastructure over flashy consumer apps, and publicly gives hands-on advice to founders.

Bill Trenchard is a founder-turned-VC who scaled LiveOps to $100M, sold Jump Networks to Microsoft, and teaches a process-driven fundraising playbook (Pitch Assist, 10/90 rule) to spot category-defining startups early.

Ann Miura-Ko, with a PhD in computer security modeling, uses a full-stack power framework to assess team strength, secrets and category potential, co-founding a firm to hunt thunder lizard companies.

Mike Maples Jr. seeks founders who live in the future—acting as if another world exists—and favors founder–future fit over early product, noting ~80% of exit profits arose from major pivots.

Brian O'Malley has 20+ years exclusively in consumer and commerce at three top-tier firms, using end-user primary research and backing software and marketplaces that empower small merchants and independent professionals.

Pascal Levy-Garboua, operator-turned-investor who co-founded and scaled AI customer-support SaaS VirtuOz, led Silicon Valley expansion and fundraising, and uses a French–Silicon Valley perspective to help European founders enter the U.S.

Cyan Banister, a self-taught engineer who entered Silicon Valley without traditional credentials, makes extremely early, conviction-driven bets on underestimated founders and magically weird projects while integrating spirituality and human potential.

Lee Jacobs, a repeat founder who co-founded a venture firm, leverages his entrepreneurial experience to early-back unconventional, technically complex software and capital-intensive founders outside Silicon Valley and welcomes direct pitches.

Mark Sugarman turned a scrappy unpaid-intern start into an eight-year concentrated angel practice, serving as lead investor and board member to one–two startups annually, with some founders becoming LPs.

James Currier, a four-time founder turned investor, is an expert on network effects who uses systematic, named frameworks to help founders design defensible growth and optimize details like company names.

Ted Maidenberg co-founded back-to-back venture firms and advanced a data-science-led model, combining Asia‑Pacific media and content-distribution experience at Time Warner and Warner Bros. with operator-like IP monetization expertise.