Marc Andreessen is a cofounder and general partner at the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz. He is an innovator and creator, one of the few to pioneer a software category used by more than a billion people and one of the few to establish multiple billion-dollar companies.

Marc co-created the highly influential Mosaic internet browser and co-founded Netscape, which later sold to AOL for $4.2 billion. He also co-founded Loudcloud, which as Opsware, sold to Hewlett-Packard for $1.6 billion. He later served on the board of Hewlett-Packard from 2008 to 2018.

Marc holds a BS in computer science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Marc serves on the board of the following Andreessen Horowitz portfolio companies: Applied Intuition, Carta, Coinbase, Dialpad, Flow, Golden, Honor, OpenGov, Samsara, Simple Things, and TipTop Labs. He is also on the board of Meta.

Gavin Baker is the Managing Partner and Chief Investment Officer of Atreides Management, LP. In addition to overseeing investments and research at Atreides, he is responsible for the firm’s day-to-day portfolio management. Prior to founding Atreides in 2019, Gavin was at Fidelity Investments from 1999 to 2017, most recently as the portfolio manager of the Fidelity OTC Portfolio from 2009 to 2017. He also helped spearhead Fidelity’s venture capital investing from 2013 to 2017. Prior to managing the Fidelity OTC Portfolio, he was a portfolio manager of the Fidelity Select Wireless Portfolio from 2007 to 2011, the Fidelity Select Telecommunications Portfolio from 2007 to 2009 and the Fidelity Select Pharmaceuticals Portfolio from 2002 to 2005. Gavin started his career at Fidelity as an analyst, and focused on semiconductors, pharmaceuticals, retail, consumer packaged goods and telecommunications. Gavin earned an AB in economics and history from Dartmouth College.

Matt Garman is the CEO of Amazon Web Services (AWS), the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud. Since joining AWS in 2006, Garman has been an integral part of AWS, having built and launched many of the company’s foundational pioneering cloud services. Matt was instrumental in scaling AWS from a startup into its current $100 billion run rate, and most recently served as Senior Vice President, AWS Sales, Marketing, and Global Services. He has also held a variety of leadership positions in AWS, including responsibility for product management, engineering, and operations for some of the most important services at the company including Amazon EC2, AWS’s custom silicon program, and Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS).

Outside of work, Garman is actively involved in several charitable organizations helping to ensure equality around education and leadership opportunities. He serves on the advisory board of First Tee, a youth development organization that uses golf to teach life skills. Additionally, he supports Rainier Scholars, which helps low-income students of color access educational opportunities, and One Acre Fund, which supplies smallholder farmers with the tools, financing and education they need to become self-sufficient.

Garman holds a BS and MS in Industrial Engineering from Stanford University and an MBA from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management.

Ben Horowitz is a cofounder and general partner at the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz. He is the author of the New York Times bestsellers, The Hard Thing About Hard Things and What You Do Is Who You Are. He also created the a16z Cultural Leadership Fund to connect the greatest cultural leaders to the best new technology companies, and enable more young African Americans to enter the technology industry.

Prior to a16z, Ben was cofounder and CEO of Opsware (formerly Loudcloud), which was acquired by Hewlett-Packard for $1.6 billion in 2007, and was appointed vice president and general manager of Business Technology Optimization for Software at HP. Earlier, he was vice president and general manager of America Online’s E-commerce Platform division, where he oversaw development of the company’s flagship Shop@AOL service. Previously, Ben ran several product divisions at Netscape Communications. He also served as vice president of Netscape’s widely acclaimed Directory and Security product line. Before joining Netscape in July 1995, he held various senior product marketing positions at Lotus Development Corporation.

Ben has an MS and a BA in computer science from UCLA and Columbia University, respectively.

Ben serves on the board of Anyscale, Databricks, Mayvenn, NationBuilder, Navan, Okta ($OKTA), and UnitedMasters.

Mira Murati is the cofounder and CEO of Thinking Machines Lab, a new frontier AI research and product company dedicated to making AI broadly useful and understandable.

Prior to launching Thinking Machines in December 2024, Mira served as Chief Technology Officer at OpenAI. As CTO, Mira oversaw OpenAI’s research, product, and safety teams and helped transform the company from a research lab to a global AI leader. She led the development and commercialization of category-defining products including ChatGPT, DALL-E, GPT-4, Codex, Sora, and the o-series of reasoning models that redefined how humans interact with artificial intelligence. ChatGPT became the fastest-growing internet application in history, reaching 100 million users in just two months.

Before joining OpenAI, Mira led the product and engineering teams at Leap Motion, pioneering human-computer interaction through virtual and augmented reality. She also contributed to breakthrough products at Tesla, including the Model X and early Autopilot systems.

Born in Albania, Mira has been recognized by TIME, Fortune, and the Financial Times as one of the most influential people in the world in AI and business. She served on the United Nations’ High-Level Advisory Body on Artificial Intelligence.

Mira holds an engineering degree from Dartmouth’s Thayer School of Engineering and a bachelor of arts degree from Colby College. In 2024, she received an honorary doctorate from Dartmouth for her contributions to democratizing technology and advancing a safer world.

Mati Staniszewski is the cofounder and CEO of ElevenLabs, a research and deployment company building audio AI tools with a mission to make information accessible in any language and voice. ElevenLabs’ technology creates lifelike speech and sound effects in 32 languages, serving industries like publishing, entertainment, education, accessibility, and conversational AI. Before starting ElevenLabs, Mati worked as a Deployment Strategist at Palantir, overseeing large-scale implementations of its products across public and private sectors. Earlier, at BlackRock, he helped develop product models and launch the Aladdin Wealth platform. He began his career at Opera Software.

Michael Truell is the cofounder and CEO of Cursor.