Awesome People I Met
Super inspired and fortunate to meet and learn from some of the most influential founders, tech leaders and investors.

Reed Hastings
CEO of Netflix

Jeff Weiner
ex-CEO of LinkedIn

Brian Chesky
CEO of Airbnb

Marrisa Mayer
ex CEO of Yahoo

Dick Costolo
ex CEO of Twitter

Ashton Kutcher
Actor and investor

Reid Hoffman
Founder of Linkedin

Bill Marriot
Chairman of the Board of Marriott International

Matt Groening
Creator of the Simpsons

Marc Benioff
Founder + CEO of
Salesforce

Steve Huffman
Founder + CEO of Reddit

Aaron Levie
Founder + CEO of Box

Jan Koum
Founder + CEO of WhatsApp

Emmett Shear
Founder + CEO of Twitch.tv

Patrick Collison
Founder + CEO of Stripe

Alex Schultz
CMO@Facebook

Sam Altman
CEO of OpenAI

Mrs. Sarah Mower
Chief Critic of Vogue

Andrew Ng
Founder of Coursera, AI expert at Baidu, Google, Stanford

Adam D'angelo
Founder + CEO of Quora

Tim Ferriss
#1New York Times bestselling author

Paul Madera @co-founder Meritech Capital
Portfolio including Facebook, Salesforce, Yammer

Ann Miura-Ko @co-founderFloodgate
Portfolio including Lyft, Refinery 29, TaskRabbit

Asheem Chandna @Greylock
Portfolio including Rubrik, AppDynamics, Palo Alto Networks

Mike Maples, Jr. co founder@Floodgate
Portfolio including Twitter, Twitch.tv, Weebly

Sandy Miller @IVP
Portfolio including Zynga, Supercell

Promod Haque @NVP
Portfolio including Apigee, FireEye, Skybox Imaging

Ross Jaffe, MD co founder @Versant Ventures
Portfolio including Insulet, Acclarent, St. Francis Medical Technology

Bing Gordon @KPCB
Portfolio including Audible, Katango, Ngmoco

Mitch Lasky @ Benchmark
Portfolio including Snapchat, Riot Games, Discord

Dick Kramlich @co-founder @NEA
Portfolio including Apple, Powerpoint, Juniper Networks

Rich Levandov @Avalon Ventures
Portfolio including Zynga, Phoenix Technologies, Tacoda

Charles Moldow @Foundation Capital
Lending Club, Lending Home, AdRoll

Jim Robinson co-founder of RRE ventures
RRE Ventures' portfolio: Buzzfeed, Markerbot, Venmo

Robert Nelsen co founder@ ARCH Venture Partners
Portfolio including GRAIL, Juno Therapeutics, Denali Therapeutics

David Cowan @ Bessemer Venture Partners
Portfolio including LinkedIn, Smule, Twitch

Feifei Li
Co-Director of the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence

Nicholas Thompson
Editor in Chief WIRED Magazine

Kai-Fu Lee
Influencial Chinese Venture Capitalist

Michael Moritz
Partner @ Sequoia

Gary Rieschel Founder @Qiming Venture Partners
Qiming’s portfolio companies including Xiaomi小米, Zhihu知乎, bilibili

Dong-su Kim
CEO of LG Technology Ventures

Matt Cohler + Mitch Lasky
Partners @ Benchmark

Jim Boettcher Co-founder of Focus Ventures
portfolio including Apigee, P.A. Semi, Pure Digital Technologies

Justin Kan
co- founder of Twitch

Tim Chang Partner @mayfield
Mayfield's portfolio includes Lyft, SolarCity, Poshmark

Reid Hoffman
co- founder of LinkedIn

3Blue1Brown
Grant Sanderson 3.83M on YouTube

Quentin Tarantino
American film director

Justin Osofsky
Head of Online Sales, Operations and Partnerships at Meta, Former COO of Instagram

Matt Madrigal
CTO of Pinterest

Bryan Johnson
CEO of Kernel

Mustafa Suleyman
CEO of Microsoft AI

Bob Muglia
ex - CEO of Snowflake

Jihong Kim
Managing Director at Samsung Ventures America

Gary Vaynerchuk
CEO of VaynerMedia

Clem Delangue
Co-founder & CEO of Hugging Face

Marina Mogilko
YouTuber 1.23M + followers

Arvind Jain
CEO of Glean

Sam Yagan
Founder of OkCupid

Megh Gautam
Chief Product Officer at Crunchbase

Sokwoo Rhee
EVP at LG Electronics

Howie Liu
CEO of Airtable

Everette Taylor
CEO of Kickstarter

Mike Knoop
Co-founder of Zapier

Brad Gerstner
Founder and CEO of Altimeter Capital

Matt McIlwain
Managing Director of Madrona Venture Group

David Glick
SVP of Walmart

Norman Winarsky
Founder of Apple Siri

Drew Houston
CEO of Dropbox

About Me
Grace Gong worked in VC and PE firms focusing on consumer tech and real estate investment. Passionate about entrepreneurship, she is eager to learn from the world’s top talents. Grace shared how American entrepreneurs created their companies in her first book, The Last Key To Success, with 21 founders featured on Forbes 30 under 30 in 2016. In 2017, she interviewed 22 investors who were featured on the Forbes Midas List for her second book How To Be A VC (Amazon No.1 New Release in Venture Capital Category) on how they invested in companies like Facebook, Apple, Twitter, LinkedIn etc. She is passionate about learning and sharing knowledges she learned from top founders and investors in Silicon Valley.
