Hugh Williams co-invented infinite scroll at Microsoft, holds 38 US patents with dozens more pending, and was named a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors; before moving into venture capital he was an information retrieval academic with a PhD, 115 published papers, and a programming book that sold over 100,000 copies, and he even played drums in the Australian band Snout. He also co-hosts a podcast that explains technology to non-engineers, co-founded a program that brought coding classes to 191,000 Australian students in 2025, and predicts that buying and selling will shift from simple transactions to conversations where AI handles the matching and payment.