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
Gary Vaynerchuk
CEO of VaynerMedia
Everette Taylor
CEO of Kickstarter
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.
