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Chris is the head of Product and CEO/cofounder at Blackthorn.io, where they created multiple apps for the Salesforce.com platform. He develops high-level UX and technical approaches with their Product and Engineering teams. 

Cofounding the company in August of 2015, they've been through a lot. From nearly going bankrupt in 2018 to now 80 employees and 500+ customers, the ride has gone from stressful to now fun!

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Michael Hoffman is the Co-Founder and CEO of Gather Voices, a technology company that automates the creation, management, and publishing of video content. He is also the founder of See3 Communications, a digital marketing agency in Chicago. Hoffman teaches marketing at the University of Chicago and is an internationally sought-after speaker and trainer who is a trusted advisor to business leaders on engagement strategy.

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Ryan leads the engineering team and previously founded Peer with the COO of Salesforce; acquired by Twitter in 2016. He has over a decade of experience working at tech companies of all sizes, including both Twitter and Concur, 2 of the most successful consumer and enterprise SaaS companies in the world. Ryan has a degree in Biomedical Engineering and Computer Science from Cornell University.

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He is a 20 year old guy, just dropped out of college, and is founding Rock It. His passion in life is to design software that actually enhances individuals' lives. That's why he dropped out of college, and that's why he designed and am launching Rock It. He thinks there's a large split out there of people who don't like Big Tech. He thinks there's a lot of dissatisfaction with what's going on in Silicon Valley with them creating platforms that actually make our individual happiness and well-being worse off. But the split comes in that some people who say to just get off your phone, delete these toxic apps, and spend more time in the real world.

Well, he doesn't think that's the solution per se. Technology can never move backwards, and it's really misguided to think people can or will say no to technology. He thinks the solution, really, is learning from these companies that have created toxic products, and say How could we create something that is actually good? And that's what we're doing with Rock It. We've designed and are launching an app that's success metrics exactly correlate to our members happiness and well-being. So check out our website GoRockIt.com to sign up for the waiting list and in the meantime, get out there and go rock it!

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Jack is building companies that benefit the East African agricultural sector. With NINAYO, smallholder farmers are able to own their harvests as a digital asset. This enables the farmer to store their harvest in a USSD wallet, and sell when the price is right. Resultantly, more food to reach markets at better prices in some of the most food insecure regions on earth. NINAYO's worked with WFP, USAID and the UN, and is soon partnering with some major cryptocurrencies to expand their service through staking.

With Maua Mazuri, Jack is providing disease-free seedlings via a tissue culture laboratory, with a particular focus on the banana industry. Soon, via NINAYO, farmers will be able to get financing for their tissue culture seedling farms as well.

Jack started as a Peace Corps Volunteer in 2009, and has gotten stuck in Tanzania ever since. He's working to bridge the numerous gaps in market access, finance, data and agro input quality. 

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Matt is the CTO at Zippity, a SaaS startup that enables great day-of service experiences for the onsite service industry. Prior to Zippity, Matt led the Fulfillment Experience team for AmazonFresh.

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Aaron is the founder and CEO of Petabridge, a company dedicated to helping .NET developers build high-performance, large-scale, and real-time software systems, and founder of the Akka.NET project. Previously Aaron was the founder of MarkedUp - analytics and marketing automation services for software developers. Before that Aaron was the Startup Developer Evangelist for Microsoft. He is globally recognized as a top .NET developer and tech leader. 

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Neil Smith is the CEO and founder of Prolo.io, an internet infrastructure startup that provides edge computing and internet exchange solutions across the United States. Before Neil started Prolo, he spent the last five years working in cloud computing where he served as the Director of Security Assurance for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and Director of Red Teams for IBM Cloud. When not working on building a better internet, Neil spends his free time advocating for responsible public land management in his home state of Idaho. This will likely be a very technical conversation, as Neil is one of the smartest (and funniest) people I know. Join us!

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He is the founder of FixMyCar, the fastest and easiest way to get your car fixed anywhere. According to his interview, he got customers from Craigslist where he got the mechanics and he created a mobile auto repair business that way. Now he is running the business of a mobile auto repair service dedicating in fixing your car repair problems.

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