Aravind Srinivas is the CEO of Perplexity, the conversational "answer engine" that provides precise, user-focused answers to queries — with in-line citations. Aravind co-founded the company in 2022 after working as a research scientist at OpenAI, Google, and DeepMind. To date, Perplexity has raised over $165 million from investors including Jeff Bezos, Nat Friedman, Elad Gil, NVIDIA, and the late Susan Wojciki. He has a PhD in computer science from UC Berkeley and a Bachelors and Masters in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras. You can find him on Twitter/X and LinkedIn.

Steve Jang is the Founder and Managing Partner of Kindred Ventures, a seed-stage venture capital fund with over $600M in assets under management. Named to the Forbes Midas List in 2023 and 2024 as one of the world’s top 50 venture capital investors, Steve has invested in over 100 startups as a VC and angel investor across AI, frontier tech, and crypto. His portfolio includes early investments in Coinbase, Fal, Perplexity, Tonal, Uber, and Zora, and has resulted in eight unicorns with two IPOs.

Before founding Kindred Ventures, Steve co-founded several consumer technology startups, including Bitski (a digital wallet platform acquired by Phantom), and SoundTracking (acquired by Rhapsody). Earlier, he co-created imeem, the very first licensed on-demand music streaming service, which reached over 100 million users before its acquisition by MySpace.

He also supports filmmakers and produces films such as Nam June Paik: Moon is the Oldest TV, a Sundance-premiered documentary now on Netflix, and Vitalik, a documentary about Ethereum founder, Vitalik Buterin.