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2026-06-08 · 13 company · 9 thematic

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will marshall

Co-founder and CEO of Planet, the satellite-imaging company that operates a large fleet of Earth-observation satellites.

john coogan

Co-host of TBPN, a live technology and business show focused on startups, venture capital and Silicon Valley.

dambisa moyo

Economist and author who writes and speaks on global macroeconomics, geopolitics, and capital markets. She has served on corporate boards across financial services and industrial sectors.

samuel hom

david kirtley

pete florence

Pete Florence is a former senior research scientist at Google DeepMind (4.5 years) and MIT PhD. He founded Generalist to build general foundation models for robotics, achieving scaling-law breakthroughs with Gen Zero (Nov) and Gen One (Apr) models showing 99%+ reliability on one hour of data.

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