Leonid Radvinsky, entrepreneur and owner of Fenix International, transformed OnlyFans into one of the most profitable creator platforms in the digital economy. With a background in building subscription-based and user-generated content businesses, Radvinsky acquired OnlyFans in 2018 and oversaw its explosive growth, turning it into a multibillion-dollar marketplace where creators directly monetize their audiences. His strategy centered on frictionless payments, global accessibility, and empowering creators with high revenue shares. Despite maintaining an extremely low public profile, Radvinsky remains a pivotal figure in the creator economy, shaping how digital content is produced, distributed, and monetized.

Kevin Systrom, cofounder of Instagram, helped build one of the most influential social platforms of the modern era by combining minimalist design, mobile photography, and frictionless sharing. After early career stints at Google and Nextstop, he launched Instagram with Mike Krieger in 2010, growing it to millions of users in months and selling the company to Facebook for $1 billion in 2012 while continuing to expand it into a global cultural phenomenon. Known for his product craftsmanship and creator-focused approach, Systrom has since turned his attention to algorithmic news and discovery through his startup Artifact, while remaining a major voice in technology and entrepreneurship.

Julio Mario Santo Domingo III, heir to the Santo Domingo brewing and investment fortune, represents the third generation of one of Latin America’s most influential business families. With family wealth built on Bavaria, Colombia’s largest brewer, and later expanded through a landmark merger with SABMiller and its acquisition by AB InBev, he now oversees a wide-ranging international portfolio alongside his relatives. Known for his discretion, cultural interests, and cosmopolitan lifestyle, Santo Domingo III is also involved in philanthropic and creative projects, helping sustain the family’s legacy across business, the arts, and global investment markets.

Josh Kushner, founder and managing partner of Thrive Capital, is one of the most influential venture investors of his generation, backing category-defining companies across fintech, healthcare, and consumer technology. Since launching Thrive in 2009, he has led early or transformative investments in firms such as Instagram, Stripe, Spotify, GitHub, and OpenAI, building Thrive into a multi-billion-dollar venture platform known for disciplined underwriting and long-horizon conviction. Kushner is also the cofounder of Oscar Health, a technology-driven insurer reshaping the U.S. healthcare landscape. With a rare combination of entrepreneurial experience, investment acumen, and strategic clarity, he has become a central force in shaping the next era of digital innovation.

Joe Lau, cofounder and CTO of Alchemy, is one of the central technical architects behind the Web3 infrastructure powering thousands of blockchain applications. After graduating from Stanford, Lau teamed up with Nikil Viswanathan to launch Alchemy in 2017, building the backend platform that supports developers across Ethereum, Polygon, and other leading chains. Under his engineering leadership, Alchemy has become the “AWS of blockchain,” enabling billions of monthly transactions for companies ranging from DeFi protocols to NFT marketplaces and gaming studios. Known for his deep technical rigor, product discipline, and ability to translate complex infrastructure into accessible tools, Lau is a defining force in the maturation of Web3.

John Bicket, co-founder and CTO of Samsara, turned a PhD-level tech project at MIT into a multibillion-dollar industrial Internet-of-Things company. After earlier selling his first startup, Meraki, to Cisco for $1.2 billion, Bicket teamed up with Sanjit Biswas in 2015 to build Samsara—fusing sensors, AI, and cloud software to monitor fleets, equipment, and field operations across thousands of enterprises. With stakes valued at around $3 billion each post-IPO, Bicket reflects the rare path from academic research to top-tier tech billionaire, while steering product strategy, engineering culture, and long-term innovation at the heart of the connected-operations era.

Joe Gebbia, cofounder of Airbnb, helped transform a simple idea—renting air mattresses in a San Francisco apartment—into one of the world’s most influential travel and hospitality platforms. As the company’s design visionary, he shaped Airbnb’s user experience, trust systems, and brand identity, guiding its growth from a scrappy startup to a multibillion-dollar public company operating in more than 190 countries. Beyond Airbnb, Gebbia founded Samara, a design lab focused on housing innovation, and became a major philanthropist supporting refugees, homelessness initiatives, and global social causes. His blend of creativity, product instinct, and mission-driven leadership has made him a defining figure in modern tech.

Jared Isaacman, entrepreneur and pilot, is the founder and CEO of Shift4, the payment processing company he launched as a teenager and later scaled into a multibillion-dollar publicly traded enterprise serving restaurants, hotels, stadiums, and major global brands. A skilled aviator with thousands of flight hours, Isaacman gained worldwide attention as commander of Inspiration4—the first all-civilian orbital space mission—funded largely by his own philanthropy in support of St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. Combining bold entrepreneurial vision with a passion for aerospace and charitable impact, he has emerged as one of the most dynamic business leaders of his generation.

Fred Ehrsam, cofounder of cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase, played a pivotal role in bringing digital assets into the financial mainstream. A former Goldman Sachs trader, he launched Coinbase in 2012 with Brian Armstrong, helping it grow into one of the world’s largest crypto platforms. After stepping back from day-to-day operations in 2017, Ehrsam cofounded Paradigm, a leading crypto-focused investment firm backing blockchain startups and decentralized finance projects. Known for his early conviction in Bitcoin and blockchain technology, he remains a prominent voice shaping the future of digital finance.

Evan Sharp is the American entrepreneur and design visionary who co‑founded Pinterest in 2010 alongside Ben Silbermann and Paul Sciarra. An architecture graduate from the University of Chicago and Columbia GSAPP alumnus, Sharp led the product’s signature grid design and served as Chief Design & Creative Officer. Known for infusing visual simplicity into engineering, he helped Pinterest evolve from a side project into a global platform with hundreds of millions of users.

Ernest C. “Ernie” Garcia, III is the American tech‑entrepreneurial executive behind Carvana, the disruptive used‑car retail marketplace he co‑founded in 2012. A Stanford alumnus in Management Science & Engineering, he previously worked at DriveTime and RBS Greenwich Capital. Under his leadership, Carvana went public in 2017 and became a Fortune 500 company. Despite market volatility, Garcia continues to steer its turnaround as CEO and Chairman.

Ed Hallen is the co‑founder and Chief Product Officer (later Chief Strategy Officer) of Klaviyo, the Boston-based SaaS platform powering email/SMS marketing and customer data for over 100,000 brands, including Unilever and Citizen Watches  . A systems engineering graduate from UVA and MIT Sloan MBA, he previously led product at Applied Predictive Technologies and held roles at Google before launching Team Engine in 2018.

Daniel Ek is the Swedish-born co-founder, Chairman & CEO of Spotify, the global streaming platform launched in 2006. A tech prodigy who sold his first startup at age 23, Ek scaled Spotify to over 276 million premium subscribers and 696 million total users by mid‑2025. He also chairs Neko Health and leads European moonshot investments through Prima Materia. 

Chris Wanstrath is an American technology entrepreneur and co‑founder and former CEO of GitHub, the world’s leading software collaboration platform launched in 2008. Self‑taught and briefly enrolled at the University of Cincinnati, he grew GitHub from a side project to a global developer hub with millions of users, eventually selling it to Microsoft in 2018 for $7.5 billion. He later founded Null Games in 2023 and co-launched the non‑profit Ladybird Browser Initiative in 2024

Tyler Winklevoss is an American entrepreneur, investor, and former Olympic rower. A Harvard economics graduate and Oxford MBA, he co‑founded ConnectU and then downplayed his Facebook settlement to become one of the first Bitcoin billionaires. In 2014, he launched Gemini—now a leading regulated U.S. crypto exchange—and Winklevoss Capital, investing early in Bitcoin and backing tech startups. Notably, he is now exploring an IPO for Gemini. 

Cameron Winklevoss is an American entrepreneur, former Olympic rower, and co‑founder & President of Gemini—the regulated cryptocurrency exchange he launched with his twin brother Tyler in 2014. After co‑founding social network ConnectU and settling a high‑profile lawsuit with Facebook, the Winklevoss twins invested early in Bitcoin—owning about 1 % of all BTC by 2013—and became among the first Bitcoin billionaires. Today, they control Gemini and Winklevoss Capital Management, investing in startups and crypto innovation while maintaining a quiet, highly disciplined presence.

Brian Chesky is the American industrial designer and co‑founder & CEO of Airbnb, the pioneering platform that transformed home-sharing into a global force. A Rhode Island School of Design graduate, Chesky built Airbnb from a San Francisco loft startup in 2008 into a marketplace serving over 2 billion guests across 240+ countries. Known for his design-driven leadership and ‘founder mode’ management style, he’s also a prominent philanthropist and a signatory of the Giving Pledge.

Brian Armstrong is the co-founder and CEO of Coinbase Global, the largest cryptocurrency exchange in the U.S. With bachelor’s and master’s degrees in computer science and economics from Rice University, he previously worked at Airbnb, Deloitte, and IBM before launching Coinbase in 2012. Under his leadership, Coinbase expanded to over 100 million users, went public in 2021, and achieved profitability while advocating for crypto regulation and financial freedom.

Bobby Murphy is the co-founder and CTO of Snap Inc., the company behind Snapchat. A Stanford-trained engineer, he architected the platform’s core messaging tech and helped pioneer augmented-reality features like Lenses, Filters, and Spectacles. A low-profile billionaire, Murphy focuses on product, infrastructure, and long-horizon AR bets shaping the future of social communication.

Bill Liu (Chinese: 刘自鸿; also known as Liu Zihong) is a Chinese‑American tech entrepreneur and pioneer in flexible-display technology, best known as the founder, Chairman, and CEO of Royole Corporation. A Stanford PhD and Tsinghua alumnus, he led Royole to global recognition with the world’s first commercial foldable smartphone, the FlexPai, and innovative ultra-thin OLED and flexible sensors—before the company faced financial struggles and bankruptcy proceedings in 2024.