Growing up, V watched his older brother suffer an accident and struggle to access the intensive physical therapy he needed to recover. V has since dedicated his career to solving pain for the 2 billion people around the globe who suffer each year. In 2015, he started Sword Health to free the world from pain and has helped thousands of people along the way. Sword's digital therapist is proven to outperform traditional physical therapy and reduces surgery by 60%. V shares how he made the transition from PhD to CEO, why Sword's success is built on a combination of AI and human-led therapies, and why getting rejected is imported to success.

Melinda is the Founder of Pivotal Ventures in addition to co-chairing the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. She has spent much of her life dedicated to promoting gender equality, having invested, donated, and committed $1B to just this cause. Already, she has invested over $65 million in comprehensive federal paid family and medical leave, and they have launched a Future of Longevity Accelerator bringing innovative solutions to elder care. Melinda shares the four key industries that can change society, how her parents taught her to live out her values, and why she found success as a manager by living authentically.

As a serial tech entrepreneur, Greg Jackson entered a new arena in his career in 2016. He decided to shift his focus to the green energy revolution, pursuing a lifelong passion of his to protect the planet. The London-based founder started Octopus Energy Group, which has become the second largest energy supplier in the UK and has expanded operations to 14 countries and 5.1 million customers globally. Greg shares how he's using technology to help tackle climate change, why he's optimistic about the path to renewable energy, and why Al Gore becoming an investor was such a pinch-me moment.

At some point in every tech employee's career, one likely comes into contact with an Atlassian product, from Jira to Confluence to Trello. Scott co-founded Atlassian back in 2001 along with his university friend, Mike Cannon-Brookes, to help unleash the potential of every team. The iconic collaboration company now has over 240,000 customers around the globe and a market value over $40 billion. Scott shares why insatiable curiosity was key to their success, how Atlassian has helped the Australian tech community thrive, and why they've adopted a work-from-anywhere policy and use offices solely for intentional togetherness.

Vikram has spent much of his career as an engineer, managing database storage at Oracle and earning several patents. But in 2015, he officially took on the title of cofounder, starting Lacework to build the security layer for the cloud. The company's thesis hinges on the idea that security problems can be solved through the right datasets. In 2021, Lacework raised a $1.3B Series D round, the largest funding round for any cybersecurity company. Vikram shares why they approach security as a data problem, how they are able to onboard customers within an hour, and why solving the biggest challenges you can is what creates the best company IP and value.

For decades, Kurt House, a Ph.D. in Earth and Planetary Science, has been at the forefront of climate tech. He decided to dedicate his career to helping transition the energy economy into a renewable one—and realized that a critical material shortfall would be one of the biggest hurdles in electric vehicle adoption. So in 2018, he co-founded KoBold, an AI-driven mineral exploration company. KoBold has launched 50 projects on 3 continents, partnered with major mining companies, and is now valued at over $1B. Kurt shares how KoBold's data helps identify locations with anomalously high concentrations of particular elements, why their team combines experienced explorers with technologists, and why failing fast is critical to their business model.

In 2006, Julia Hartz and her cofounders launched Eventbrite, the global self-service ticketing platform for live experiences. Since its start, the company has empowered event creators with seamless technology to bring more events to life. Last year alone, Eventbrite was home to 1.7 million paid events generating $3.3 billion in gross ticket sales. Julia shares how an early focus on self-service helped the company succeed, why she drew on her maternal instinct to guide Eventbrite though the pandemic, and how an early job on the set of TV hit Friends gave her a fear of phone calls. 

In 2019, serial founders Leif Abraham and Jannick Malling came together to launch Public.com, the popular investing platform that allows everyone to invest in stocks, ETFs, crypto, and alternative assets. They set out to build a community around the stock market, and in just a few years, they've scaled to 3 million members. Leif started as a fintech outsider, but took his entrepreneurial experience and accolades—a double Cannes Lions Grand Prix winner who was named one of the Top 10 Minds in Digital by Adweek—to create a fintech platform that members love. Leif shares how they work to build an emotional connection with users, why it's important to have a "black swan" playbook to prepare for major market events, and why he believes in playing the long game with business relationships.

Do you know your neighbors? When Nextdoor was founded in 2008, 50% of Americans knew one or none of their neighbors. Fast-forward and Nextdoor now connects 81 million neighbors across 11 countries, building both digital and real-world connections. Sarah Friar joined Nextdoor as CEO in 2018 and took the company public in 2021 under the ticker symbol KIND. Sarah shares how her childhood in Northern Ireland during The Troubles gave her a lifelong belief in the local power of community, how Nextdoor leverages AI to encourage kindness on the platform, and why one of the company's biggest moments to date was bringing together 18 million people in person around the Queen's Jubilee.