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Tristan Pollock

VC 500 Startups | Forbes 30 under 30 | Community Builder   ·  San Francisco

Tristan Pollock is a combination of a business entrepreneur and startup investor, writer, and mystery designer.

He helped to grow a Fortune 100 company, started and sold 2 startups, and invested $30M into over 200 startups as a VC at 500 Startups.

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Mike Merrill

WORLD'S FIRST
PUBLICLY TRADED PERSON   ·  Los Angeles

Mike Merrill took crowdfunding to a new level when in 2008 he divided his ‘self’ into 100,000 shares and sold them at an initial public offering price of $1 a share.

Mr. Merrill was featured in Wired, Forbes, CNBC, Yahoo Finance, The Hustlle and other largest media as the World's first publicly traded person.

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Odunayo Eweniyi

Forbes 30 under 30  ·  Nigeria

Odunayo is a co-founder of PiggyVest and pushcv.com, one of the largest job sites in Africa with the largest database of prescreened candidates.

Odunayo is the youngest Nigerian on Forbes Africa list of 20 New Wealth Creators in Africa 2019.

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Sanjay Nediyara

Tech Entrepreneur | Developer   ·  India

Sanjay is a founder of Sieve, Inc. and StartGlobal helping businesses go Global.

He lost 80% of hearing in 2010; got a job paying $120 a month; was invited to work in Facebook but rejected to continue with his startup, which was later backed by Twitter co-founder Biz Stone.

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Bret Lockett

Partner M2Jets | Newport Ventures | Former NFL Player  ·  Los Angeles

Bret is a serial entrepreneur, leading business consultant, international speaker, and a former NFL American football safety.

Bret has been an investor and a member of the executive team for several companies, including his partnership with private aviation company “M2Jets” and Newport Ventures.

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Antanas Benatonis

Student | Business Development Executive
  ·  Lithuania

Antanas Benatonis is a 22-years old head of business development at Montonio Finance and business school student at Vilnius University.

Antanas worked with companies in various fields as well as with the events and projects for youth empowerment in the countryside.

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Kym Jackson

Actress | Author | Founder   ·  Los Angeles

Aussie working actress living in Hollywood with over 50 credits in film and TV.

Kym wrote the book 'The Hollywood Survival Guide For Actors' and she is also a co-founder of Secret Actor Society - a website and app that helps actors get started in their career.

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Christopher Fong

Xoogler.co Founder  ·  San Francisco

Chris is a founder of Xoogler.co - group of Google alumni and current Googlers in the startup ecosystem who are startup founders, early team members, angel investors, VCs, and mentors.

Currently is advising and launching companies in the online education space.

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Luc Bossi

Film producer at Brio Films   ·  Paris / NY

Luc is a film producer based in New York and Paris. The films of his company Brio Films have been released internationally in more than a hundred countries.

He has worked with unique talent with global recognition such as French director Michel Gondry, Audrey Tautou, Ken Scott, Dhanush and Bérénice Béjo.

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Juliet Kasko

Global Talent Builder  ·  Singapore

Juliet helping to connect startups with top talent, partners and investors.

After finishing Executive Master in Consulting and Coaching for Change at INSEAD, Juliet continues leading successful organizational and personal transformations.

Juliet is running PitchLab – a studio for entrepreneurs to train their pitching skills and get a valuable feedback.

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David Kofoed Wind

Co-founder of Peergrade (YC S17),
VC at Pioneer Fund  ·  Denmark

David is a co-founder and CEO of Peergrade (YC S17) and a venture partner at Pioneer Fund.

He holds Ph.D. and co-authored 6 scientific publications on abstract math, algorithms and network analysis, and has competed in a series of competitions on innovation.

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AYA

Founder, Fashion Designer   ·  New York

Aya is an entrepreneur and fashion designer. In her 20s, she successfully ran her spa business in SoHo, New York.

Aya was one of the first who implemented the online booking system for spa business what helped her to grow her business.

After exit from previous business she started her fashion brand "The Off Label".

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Andrej Rusakov

Seed Investor, Entrepreneur  ·  New York

Andrej is a co-founding partner at Data Capital Management - a systematic hedge fund built on real-time data feeds and AI.

Mr. Rusakov previously founded Open Capital and worked for Apax Partners and Morgan Stanley where he was involved in $1 billion worth of buy-outs worldwide.

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Scott Amyx

VC | TEDxWallStreet | Forbes Business Council  ·  New York

Scott is an internationally recognized thought leader, VC, speaker, and author on smart cities, exponential technologies, and the Fourth Industrial Revolution.

Mr. Amyx is a Partner at Loyal VC, Amyx Ventures, Singularity University Mentor, Organizer of TEDxWallStreet.

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Artem Goldman

Forbes 30 under 30  ·  Los Angeles

Artem is a tech entrepreneur and angel investor. In 2016 he co-founded Visabot - an AI platform for U.S. visa process, which was featured as the best solution by Bloomberg magazine.

Artem is a member of the Stanford CodeX community, 500 startups, Adam Draper's Boost.vc, and Founder Institute.

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Jill Salzman

Founder | TEDx Speaker | Author  ·  Chicago

Jill Salzman is currently growing her third entrepreneurial venture, The Founding Moms, the #1 platform for mom entrepreneurs to build better businesses.

She’s also the author of The Best Business Book In The World and the best-seller and the host of the top-rated entertaining business podcast.

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John Wensveen, Ph.D.

Chief Innovation Officer, Futurist, Author, Speaker   ·  Fort Lauderdale, FL

Dr. Wensveen is CIO and Executive Director of the NSU Broward Center of Innovation at NSU responsible for overseeing a multi-million dollar public private partnerships to support the growing entrepreneurial ecosystem.

Prior to this role, Dr. Wensveen was the Vice Provost of Academic Schools at Miami Dade College.

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Michael Amar

Serial Entrepreneur, Investor
  ·  France

Michael is an entrepreneur with expertise across the worldwide marketplace including US, France, Israel, and Japan.

Sold 4 companies in the (e-commerce, digital marketing and blockchain space). Investor and advisor in 10+ funds and startups.

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Daria Davidova

Opera Singer, Soprano  ·  Moscow

Ms Davidova is a professional opera singer, soprano. She started her career from the Bolshoi theatre debut as an inviteé soloist during her study at Convervatory. The most recent engagements were in the USA, Japan, France, Austria, China, South Africa, and most of the EU countries.

Ms Davidova is also a professional model and a cover girl featured at Tatler Magazine and others.

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Sergey Fradkov

Investor, Entrepreneur   ·  Israel

In 90’s, Sergey founded a pioneering mobile platform and one of the largest BlackBerry ISV companies with no outside investment, which was later sold to Google and incorporated into Google Drive.

In 2013 founded a startup accelerator ranked #3 in Europe, served as technology visionary and advisor to the portfolio companies.

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Bence Nagy

Engineering Experience & Culture Coach  ·  Digital Nomad

One of the first 5% of engineers at Kiwi.com, scaled the team and tech as monthly turnover grew by 12x and had a successful exit.

Bence also is a digital nomad and CEO of Under where he is helping engineers and business create better software, faster.

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Ilya Flaks

Entrepreneur, VR/Gaming  ·  Worldwide

Started his first business at school. In 2014 founded Fibrum — producer of VR/AR software and hardware for Steam, Oculus and Viveport with 65M+ users worldwide.

In September 2019 Mr. Flaks together with LANIT started R&D center to develop VR/AR technology for Enterprise.

In 2019 Ilya joined DEAL app as Advisor/CVO together with Natalia Vodianova and Matthew Freud.

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Brian Swichkow

Artist, Entrepreneur  ·  Los Angeles

Swichkow is a serial entrepreneur, labeled as a 'Reddit Marketing Expert' by Forbes, AdWeek, Observer, etc.

Went viral in 2014 after pranking his roommate with Facebook ads, earned 7M impressions and 30K backlinks.

Augmented himself with AI and became Brian+ (Brian.bot); enhanced community building, agency sales, storytelling, etc.