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

Bryan Johnson

CEO of Kernel

Mustafa Suleyman

CEO of Microsoft AI

Bob Muglia

ex - CEO of Snowflake

Gary Vaynerchuk

CEO of VaynerMedia

Clem Delangue

Co-founder & CEO of Hugging Face

Marina Mogilko

YouTuber 1.23M + followers

Arvind Jain

CEO of Glean

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

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. 

My Books

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How to be a VC

22 investors featured on Forbes Midas List shared how they get into Investing and how to make great investments.

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The Last key to Success

21 founders featured on Forbes 30 under 30 shared how to start a company

Podcast/ Programs I am featured on