Aravind Srinivas

Perplexity: $20B valuation, $500M+ ARR, 100M+ weekly queries

Co-founder and CEO of Perplexity AI — the AI answer engine that replaced traditional search for millions. Former researcher at OpenAI, Google DeepMind, and Google Brain. Grew Perplexity from $100M to $500M+ ARR in 2026 alone with a team of under 100 people.

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Austin Griffith@austingriffith

scaffold-eth: $5M+ in grants distributed via BuidlGuidl; 10k+ GitHub stars; 1,000+ builders funded

Ethereum Foundation member who gave an AI agent its own wallet and told it to build. Created CLAWD on Base — an autonomous agent that writes, deploys, and ships real onchain dApps with no human reviewing the code. Pioneer of the autonomous builder agent model.

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Amit Jain@gravicle

Luma AI: $4B+ valuation, $1.07B raised, Dream Machine used by millions

Co-founder and CEO of Luma AI — the AI video and world model company behind Dream Machine. Former Apple Vision Pro engineer. Raised $900M from Humain to build a 2GW compute cluster for next-gen world models.

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Miguel Morel@MiguelMorel

Deanonymized 97% of Saylor's BTC holdings

Founder and CEO of Arkham Intelligence — the leading onchain analytics platform identifying and cataloging owners of blockchain addresses. Raised $12M+ from Tim Draper, Sam Altman, Joe Lonsdale. Launched Arkham Exchange in 2025 as a CEX; pivoting to fully decentralized exchange model in February 2026 after volumes failed to compete with incumbents. ARKM token launched on Binance Launchpad 2023.

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