nico wettenbornFormer investor at Point Nine (early Zendesk, Loom) and Insight Partners (consumer mobile); founded Adjacent in 2019 as solo GP, now investing Fund IV; backed Aura, Speechify, RevenueCat, Popcorn, Inversion Space, Tractive (sold to Bending Spoons).
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.
benCo-host of the Acquired podcast with David, which analyzes business histories and strategies. They interviewed Andrew Ross Sorkin about his media career and productivity.
farajali40-year semiconductor veteran; founded two public semiconductor companies (DSL and 10G data center chips); now building AI for chip design (ACI) to collapse design cycles using proprietary dataset and physicist-designer pairing.