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Adrian Aon is the founder & CEO of Forward. They've raised more than $225mil from the world's leading VCs to "build an insurance-free healthcare system from the ground-up”.
Before that, he was the Director of Special Projects for Google's CEO & founder of Sidewalk Labs, the startup at Google tasked with re-inventing cities & sold Wavii to Google for $30mil.
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Tiago Forte is the creator of Building a Second Brain.
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Sam Corcos is the co-founder & CEO of Levels Health
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Colin Sapire is the founder of Beast Health & Nutribullet.
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Ramon is a Dutch immigrant who dropped out of high school before finding an entrepreneurial path.
Most recently he acquired a DTC dog ramp business (Alpha Paw) for $300k + which he's grown to $35mil+ in sales.
Previously, he grew a soap opera blog to 30mil+ monthly pageviews before selling it for $9mil.
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Bilal breaks down the secret sauce that makes Google + YouTube two of the greatest businesses of all time.
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Noah Kagan is the founder of AppSumo, an 8-figure business bringing in an estimated $70mil+ in 2021.
He was employee #30 at Facebook, #4 at Mint.com and his popular YouTube channel has over 140k subscribers.
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Alex Lieberman is the co-founder & CEO of Morning Brew. They're a leading new media startup with over 2.7mil newsletter subscribers, making them one of the largest daily newsletters around.
Alex & his co-founder sold a majority stake in the business to Insider Inc for a reported $75mil in Oct 2020.
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Dru Riley is the founder of Trends.vc, a community + newsletter that helps 35,000 entrepreneurs discover new markets + ideas.
Trends makes tens of thousands of dollars/month in subscription revenue + was ranked "Product of The Month" on Product Hunt.
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Lexi Lewtan the founder of Centered, where she's building the Masterclass for Mental Health.
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Jake Gibson is the co-founder of NerdWallet & Founding Partner at Better Tomorrow Ventures, a $75mil venture fund, investing in the future of Fintech alongside Sheel Mohnot.
He's been involved in fintech for over a decade. Prior to NerdWallet, he studied math and quantitative finance at MIT and traded interest rate derivatives at JPMorgan.
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Ana Lorena Fabrega is an EDUpreneur and former teacher known by little ones as Ms. Fab.
She's currently the Chief Evangelist of Synthesis School, an innovative online enrichment club started by the director of Elon Musk’s experimental school at Space X.
Synthesis helps students build decision-making & problem-solving skills through games.
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Nick Huber is a real estate entrepreneur, self-storage owner & operator.
His commercial real estate portfolio is approaching $30mil in assets (as of 2021) & he's built a name for himself by championing "sweaty startups" aka unsexy businesses.
Nick has built a 100k following on Twitter by transparently sharing the lessons learned from his time in business & by simplifying concepts in the real estate game.
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