joe ben bevirtJoeBen Bevirt founded Joby Aviation and has led it for over a decade through design, FAA certification, and into manufacturing scale-up. He previously founded Velocity11 and other robotics companies. He is driving the electric aviation transition with hydrogen propulsion, autonomy, and vertical integration.
joe lonsdaleJoe Lonsdale hosts American Optimists. He co-founded Palantir Technologies and founded venture firm 8VC. He previously hired Scott Wu at an early company and references his experience building Palantir's forward-deployed engineer model and government technology partnerships.
scottCo-founder of Cognition, an AI coding agent company. Former founder hired by Joe Lonsdale in a previous venture. Leads a team of 20+ Olympiad gold medalists building autonomous software engineering agents.
jackPartner at 8VC. Leads the public markets discussion, citing Micron's valuation metrics and historical industrial revolution capex comparisons to argue AI is not in a bubble.