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Michael Barko is CEO at Startmate, Australia's top startup accelerator. He started his career in corporate (Finance @ American Express, consulting @ PwC/KPMG) before he joined two of the largest Australian marketplaces MadPaws, a marketplace for pet sitters, and Expert360.

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Ryan Hoover is the founder of Product Hunt, a popular website where you can find the latest products for just about any need or want in your life. He is also working on YourStack, a community platform to find the best apps, products, and tips recommended by people you know. Prior, he created Startup Edition and was Director of Product at PlayHaven. Ryan was the contributing writer to the international bestseller, Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products by Nir Eyal, and has written essays featured in TechCrunch, Forbes, Pando, Fast Company, and The Next Web. Fun fact: he doesn't eat pancakes.

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Patrick O’Shaughnessy is the Chief Executive Officer at O’Shaughnessy Asset Management (OSAM). He is the author of Millennial Money: How Young Investors can Build a Fortune, published by Palgrave Macmillan, and a contributing author to the Fourth Edition of What Works on Wall Street. Patrick’s podcast “Invest Like the Best,” which is a series of conversations with leading investors across asset classes, recently passed 7 million listeners.

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Cynthia Johnson is an American entrepreneur, marketing professional, SEO specialist, social media influencer, author and keynote speaker. She is a Co-founder of Ipseity Media and previously served as the director of brand development of American Addiction Centers.

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Brad Feld is an American entrepreneur, author, blogger, and venture capitalist at Foundry Group in Boulder, Colorado, a firm he started with partners Seth Levine, Ryan McIntyre, and Jason Mendelson. Feld began financing technology startups in the early 1990s, first as an angel and later an institutional investor.

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Bill Gates is an American business magnate, software developer, investor, and philanthropist. He is best known as the co-founder of Microsoft Corporation.

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Balaji S. Srinivasan is an angel investor and entrepreneur. Formerly the CTO of Coinbase and General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz, he was also the cofounder of Earn.com (acquired by Coinbase), Counsyl (acquired by Myriad), Teleport (acquired by Topia), and Coin Center.

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb is a Lebanese-American essayist, scholar, statistician, and former option trader and risk analyst, whose work concerns problems of randomness, probability, and uncertainty.

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Naval Ravikant (born in 1974) is an Indian born American Entrepreneur, Angel Investor, Founder, and CEO from New York. He is best known as AngelList's Founder. In addition, he is presently serving as the Chief Executive Officer, Chairman, and owner of AngelList Company.

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Jocko Willink is an American retired officer of the United States Navy, who served in the Navy SEAL teams. He is also a podcaster and author. His military service saw combat actions in the war in Iraq, where he eventually commanded the SEAL Team 3's Task Unit Bruiser that fought in the bloody battle

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