Merrie Williamson is a technology leader with over 20 years of experience building strategic programs, multifaceted organizations, corporate partnerships and delivering revenue. She's currently Vice President of Azure Apps and Infrastructure at Microsoft. Prior to that she worked at Intel Corporation.

Lisa Reeves started her career in technology in the early 90s. She's currently Senior Vice President of Product at Zenefits. For over 14 years she worked at SAP, a company that builds enterprise software since the 1970s. Lisa's interest in emerging technologies and innovation evolved into a career in venture capital, both in corporate Venture Capital and traditional Venture Capital.

Shannon Rugani was a member of the San Francisco Ballet for over 11 years. She has worked with world renowned Choreographers and has danced all over the world including France, Iceland, China, Denmark, England and the United States. Shannon left SFBallet in 2015 to join the original cast of Tony Award winning An American In Paris on Broadway.

Shannon is also an accomplished composer on the piano and has written music for a short film called Freefall directed by Luke Willis in 2012 among other projects. She is currently focused on her music career as a singer/songwriter performing under the stage name EMPRESS.

Angela Guzman is a designer and entrepreneur based out of Silicon Valley. She co-designed the original set of Apple's emoji back in 2008. Over the last decade, Angela has worked for Google, Airbnb, and Apple in user experience, interaction, and visual design. She studied Industrial and Graphic Design from 2002–2009 at the Rhode Island School of Design. Angela is currently the founder and CEO of her new startup Tijiko.

Kelsey is a Staff Developer Advocate at Google. Kelsey has worn every hat possible throughout his career in tech, and enjoys leadership roles focused on making things happen and shipping software. Kelsey is a strong open source advocate focused on building simple tools that make people smile. When he is not slinging Go code, you can catch him giving technical workshops covering everything from programming to system administration.

Leslie Lamport is an American computer scientist. Lamport is best known for his seminal work in distributed systems and as the initial developer of the document preparation system LaTeX. Leslie Lamport was the winner of the 2013 Turing Award for imposing clear, well-defined coherence on the seemingly chaotic behavior of distributed computing systems, in which several autonomous computers communicate with each other by passing messages. He devised important algorithms and developed formal modeling and verification protocols that improve the quality of real distributed systems. These contributions have resulted in improved correctness, performance, and reliability of computer systems.

Kelley Rivoire is an Engineering Manager at Stripe, an American technology company valued at 22 billion in 2019. Kelley worked on building the company's first real-time Machine Learning model for evaluation of user risk. Prior to that, Kelley studied Physics at MIT and a PhD in Electrical Engineering at Stanford University.

Brendan Burns is a Co-Founder of the open source Kubernetes project and a Distinguished Engineer at Microsoft. He works on various technologies like: DevOps, containers, and open source.

Seth Godin, founder of the altMBA, author and entrepreneur, gives advice about habits.

In addition to launching one of the most popular blogs in the world, he has written 18 best-selling books, including The Dip, Linchpin, Purple Cow, Tribes, and What To Do When It's Your Turn (And It's Always Your Turn).

Miriam came to the United States when she was very young and spoke very little English. She went on to study Computer Science at MIT and work at various companies. In this episode, she gives advice on getting a job promotion.