Month: October 2023

Venus Williams is a noted American professional tennis player who is a former world No. 1 in both singles and doubles. Venus has won seven Grand Slam singles titles, five at Wimbledon and two at the US Open. She is famous for being the younger sister, of Serena Williams who was coached by her parents Oracene Price and Richard Williams.

Alexis Olympia Ohanian Jr is a popular American Instagram Star who is the proud co-owner of the Los Angeles Golf Club alongside her parents legendary tennis player Serena Williams and Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian. Olympia’s parents have managed a verified Instagram account for her, olympiaohanian, which has earned more than 650,000 followers. Olympia’s parents became engaged in December 2016. They then reported they were pregnant with her in an April 2017 Snapchat post.

Alexis Ohanian ( Full Name: Alexis Kerry Ohanian) is a popular American internet entrepreneur and investor who is the founder of 776 Fund which invests in seed-stage start-up companies including cyber security, cloud infrastructure, data analytics, and enterprise SaaS. He founded 776 Fund in 2020. Alexis is also known as the co-founder and former executive chairman of the social media site Reddit together with Steve Huffman and Aaron Swartz. Alexis also co-founded the early-stage venture capital firm Initialized Capital, helped launch the travel search website Hipmunk, and began the social enterprise Breadpig. He also worked as a partner at Y Combinator.

Steph Korey is a noted American Entrepreneur and Investor. She co-founded the travel brand, Away with Jen Rubio where she was CEO from 2015 to 2020. In 2018 and 2019, she was honored as one of Goldman Sachs’ 100 Builders + Innovators. In 2022, she is an Investment Partner at XFactor Ventures.  Before starting Away, Korey was Head of the Supply Chain at Warby Parker.

Lidiane Jones is a noted American business executive. She is currently the CEO of Slack Technologies after succeeding Stewart Butterfield. Before that, she worked as executive vice president and general manager at the parent company Salesforce. During her tenure, she oversaw Commerce Cloud, Experience Cloud, and Marketing Cloud divisions. Previously, she spent 13 years at Microsoft as a software engineer serving on the Excel product and oversaw several of its post-acquisition integration efforts.

Jen Rubio ( Full Name: Jennifer Rubio) is a popular American businesswoman who is the co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Away, a luggage manufacturer and retailer. She founded Away with Steph Korey on November 9, 2015. She was President and Chief Brand Officer of Away from 2015 to 2020. From 2011 to 2013, Jen  also worked as head of social media at Warby Parker. From 2013 to 2014, she served as a global director of innovation at the fashion company AllSaints.

Justin Kan is a well-known American internet entrepreneur and investor. He is the co-founder of live video platforms Justin.tv and Twitch. Kan also co-founded the mobile social video application Socialcam. Moreover, he also co-founded and was the former CEO of the law-tech company Atrium. In addition, he was formerly a partner at Silicon Valley incubator Y Combinator.

Cal Henderson ( Full Name: Callum James Henderson-Begg) is a popular British computer programmer and author based in San Francisco. Currently, Cal works as the co-founder and CTO of Slack a cloud-based freemium cross-platform instant messaging service. Slack was launched to the public in August 2013. Cal oversees Slack’s world-class engineering team and sets the technical vision for the company. In 2019, Cal was named a Fortune 40 Under 40 honoree and recognized by the World Economic Forum as a Young Global Leader.