Star Treatment
Does prominence change the questions? Every guest, plotted: their public prominence (rated 1–10 by an LLM, methodology below) against the host pushback they met, measured from every diarized word of their episodes.
An aggregate AI reading of public interviews: pushback per exchange, plotted against guest prominence. It describes questioning patterns across the whole catalogue, not any single guest, and every point opens to its episode. full disclaimer →
+0.16pushback per +1 prominence
2.2/10host pushback, prominence 8–10
0.6/10host pushback, prominence 1–4
360guests measured
dot size = rated episodes · gold line = average per prominence level · every dot links to the person
All guests, by prominence
| Guest | Prominence | Host pushback | Guest pushback | Eps |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Marc Benioff Chair, CEO & Co-Founder, Salesforce | 9 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Stewart Butterfield Co-founder & Former CEO, Slack | 8 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Matt Mullenweg Founder & CEO, Automattic | 8 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| David Sacks Founding General Partner, Craft Ventures | 8 | 2.5 | 1.5/10 | 2 |
| Aaron Levie Co-Founder & CEO, Box | 8 | 3.3 | 2.3/10 | 4 |
| Scott Belsky Partner, A24 | 7 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Michael Seibel Partner Emeritus & General Partner, Y Combinator | 7 | 0 | 4/10 | 2 |
| Ali Ghodsi CEO & Co-Founder, Databricks | 7 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Ryan Petersen Founder & CEO, Flexport | 7 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Sridhar Ramaswamy CEO, Snowflake | 7 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Brian Halligan Co-Founder & Executive Chairperson, HubSpot | 7 | 2 | 2.2/10 | 5 |
| Aileen Lee Founder and Managing Partner, Cowboy Ventures | 7 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Jeff Lawson CEO, Inertia | 7 | 2.5 | 2/10 | 2 |
| Dharmesh Shah Co-Founder and CTO, HubSpot | 7 | 2.7 | 2/10 | 3 |
| Harry Stebbings Founder & Host, 20VC | 7 | 2.9 | 2/10 | 8 |
| Amjad Masad Co-founder & CEO, Replit | 7 | 3 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Ryan Smith Executive Chairman & Co-Founder, Qualtrics | 7 | 3 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Girish Mathrubootham Co-founder & Managing Partner, Together Fund | 6 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Anu Hariharan Founder & Managing Partner, Avra | 6 | 0 | 1.5/10 | 2 |
| Dave McJannet Co-founder & CEO, Dome Systems | 6 | 0 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Akshay Kothari Co-Founder and COO, Notion | 6 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Andrey Husid Founder & CEO, Miro | 6 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Sid Sijbrandij Co-founder & Executive Chair, GitLab Inc. | 6 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Jennifer Tejada Executive Chair, PagerDuty | 6 | 0 | 1/10 | 2 |
| Jyoti Bansal Co-Founder & CEO, Harness | 6 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Aydin Senkut Founder & Managing Partner, Felicis | 6 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Henrique Dubugras Co-Founder & Board Chair, Brex | 6 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Mikkel Svane Founder & CEO, Zendesk | 6 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Byron Deeter Partner, Bessemer Venture PartnersBytes | 6 | 0.3 | 0.5/10 | 6 |
| Tope Awotona Founder & CEO, Calendly | 6 | 0.5 | 1/10 | 2 |
| Nick Mehta Board Member & Special Advisor, Gainsight | 6 | 0.9 | 0.6/10 | 8 |
| Wade Foster Co-founder & CEO, Zapier | 6 | 1 | 0.5/10 | 2 |
| Sanjit Biswas Founder & CEO, Samsara | 6 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Yamini Rangan CEO, HubSpot | 6 | 1.3 | 2.3/10 | 3 |
| Tomasz Tunguz Founder & General Partner, Theory Ventures | 6 | 1.5 | 0.8/10 | 4 |
| René Lacerte CEO & Founder, BILL | 6 | 1.5 | 0.5/10 | 2 |
| Andrew Bialecki Co-Founder and Co-CEO, Klaviyo | 6 | 2 | 1.5/10 | 2 |
| Todd McKinnon Co-Founder and CEO, Okta | 6 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Jenny Lee Managing Partner, GGV Capital | 6 | 2 | 4/10 | 1 |
| Mathilde Collin Co-Founder & Executive Chair, Front | 6 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Henry Schuck Founder & CEO, ZoomInfo | 6 | 2.3 | 1.7/10 | 3 |
| Ben Chestnut Co-founder & Former CEO, Mailchimp | 6 | 2.5 | 2/10 | 2 |
| Parker Conrad Co-founder & CEO, Rippling | 6 | 3 | 6/10 | 1 |
| Zach Perret | 6 | 4 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Rory O'Driscoll General Partner, Scale Venture Partners | 5 | 0 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Sameer Dholakia Partner, Bessemer Venture Partners | 5 | 0 | 1/10 | 2 |
| Christoph Janz Co-Founder & Partner, Point Nine | 5 | 0 | 0/10 | 5 |
| Spenser Skates CEO and Co-Founder, Amplitude | 5 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Jack Altman General Partner, Benchmark | 5 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Spencer Kimball Co-Founder & CEO, Cockroach Labs | 5 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Hande Cilingir Co-Founder and CEO, Insider One | 5 | 0 | 0.5/10 | 2 |
| Bill Magnuson Co-Founder & CEO, Braze | 5 | 0 | 1.5/10 | 2 |
| Josh Reeves Co-Founder and CEO, Gusto | 5 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Shoaib Makani Co-Founder and CEO, Motive | 5 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Eléonore Crespo Co-Founder and Co-CEO, Pigment | 5 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Matt Jacobson General Partner, ICONIQ Growth | 5 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Hayden Brown CEO, Upwork | 5 | 0 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Abhinav Asthana Co-founder & CEO, Postman | 5 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Mårten Mickos Board Chairman, Enfuce Financial Services | 5 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Erica Brescia | 5 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Doug Song Co-founder & CEO, Song United | 5 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Leah Busque General Partner, Fuel Capital | 5 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Ophelia Brown Founder & Managing Partner, Blossom Capital | 5 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Jason Cohen Founder & Chief Innovation Officer, WP Engine | 5 | 0 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Satya Patel Co-Founder & Partner, Homebrew | 5 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Iman Abuzaid | 5 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Joshua Browder | 5 | 0 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Mark Roberge Co-Founder & Managing Director, Stage 2 Capital | 5 | 0.3 | 1.7/10 | 6 |
| Howard Lerman Founder & CEO, Roam | 5 | 0.5 | 5/10 | 2 |
| Elena Verna Head of Growth, Lovable | 5 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Philippe Botteri Partner, Accel | 5 | 1 | 2/10 | 3 |
| Ben Mann Co-Founder, Anthropic | 5 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Daniel Dines Founder & CEO, UiPath | 5 | 1 | 4/10 | 1 |
| Howie Liu Co-Founder & CEO, Airtable | 5 | 1 | 1.3/10 | 3 |
| Kyle Porter Founder & Chairman, Salesloft | 5 | 1 | 1/10 | 2 |
| Therese Tucker Founder and Board Member, BlackLine | 5 | 1 | 2.5/10 | 2 |
| Sanjay Beri Co-founder & CEO, Netskope | 5 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Dan Siroker | 5 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Guillaume Cabane Co-Founder & General Partner, HyperGrowth Partners | 5 | 1.5 | 0.8/10 | 4 |
| Jeremy Burton GM, Observability Business Unit, Snowflake | 5 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Tooey Courtemanche Founder & Chairman of the Board, Procore | 5 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| David Frankel Co-Founder & Managing Partner, Founder Collective | 5 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Edith Harbaugh CEO & Co-founder, LaunchDarkly | 5 | 2 | 4/10 | 2 |
| David Barrett Founder & CEO, Expensify | 5 | 2 | 5.5/10 | 2 |
| Rob Bernshteyn General Partner, ICONIQ Growth | 5 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Eric Gunderson CEO, Mapbox | 5 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Eran Zinman Co-Founder & Co-CEO, monday.com | 5 | 2.3 | 1.7/10 | 3 |
| Doug Pepper General Partner, ICONIQ Growth | 5 | 2.3 | 1.7/10 | 3 |
| Victor Riparbelli Co-Founder & CEO, Synthesia | 5 | 2.5 | 1.5/10 | 2 |
| Arsalan Tavakoli Co-Founder & SVP Field Engineering, Databricks | 5 | 3 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Amit Bendov CEO and Co-Founder, Gong | 5 | 3 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Roy Mann Co-Founder and Co-CEO, monday.com | 5 | 3 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Michael Pryor Board Member, Watsi | 5 | 3 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Robert Vis Founder and CEO, Bird | 5 | 3 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Shishir Mehrotra Chief Executive Officer, Superhuman | 5 | 4 | 8/10 | 1 |
| Paul Adams Chief Product Officer, Intercom | 4 | 0 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Brett Queener Partner, Bonfire Ventures | 4 | 0 | 4/10 | 1 |
| Chris Degnan Former Chief Revenue Officer, Snowflake | 4 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Arvind Nithrakashyap Co-founder & CTO, Rubrik | 4 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Dmitry Shevelenko Chief Business Officer, Perplexity | 4 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Alex Clayton General Partner, Meritech Capital | 4 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Jeanne DeWitt Grosser COO, Vercel | 4 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Hubert Palan Founder and CEO, Productboard | 4 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Jason Boehmig Product Lead, OpenAI | 4 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Seema Amble Partner, Andreessen Horowitz | 4 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Timothy Young CEO, Jasper | 4 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| TJ Nahigian Co-founder and Managing Partner, Base10 Partners | 4 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Rajeev Dham Partner, Sapphire Ventures | 4 | 0 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Janelle Teng Partner, Bessemer Venture Partners | 4 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Mary D'Onofrio Partner, Crosslink Capital | 4 | 0 | 0/10 | 3 |
| Dan Robinson Advisor & Former CTO, Heap | 4 | 0 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Ben Braverman Co-Founder and Managing Partner, Saga Ventures | 4 | 0 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Brad Hoover CEO | 4 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Erica Schultz President of Field Operations, Confluent | 4 | 0 | 0/10 | 2 |
| Harry Briggs Founder Turned VC | 4 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Irina Haivas Partner, Atomico | 4 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Zach Coelius Managing Partner, Coelius Capital | 4 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Pieterjan Bouten CEO, Showpad | 4 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Yancey Spruill Executive, DigitalOcean and SendGridYancey Spruill is an executive known for helping scale startups like SendGrid and DigitalOcean during critical growth stages. He shares insights on overcoming hurdles and common founder mistakes. | 4 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Archana Agrawal President, Intercom | 4 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Emil Eifrem Co-Founder & CEO, Neo4j | 4 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Karen Peacock CEO, Intercom | 4 | 0 | 0/10 | 2 |
| Nithya Ruff Head of Open Source, Comcast | 4 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Steve Sloan VP of AWS Marketing, Amazon | 4 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Elliott Robinson Partner, Bessemer Venture Partners | 4 | 0 | 0/10 | 2 |
| Auren Hoffman General Partner, Flex Capital | 4 | 0 | 5/10 | 1 |
| Patrick Campbell Founder & CEO, ProfitWell | 4 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Farhan Thawar VP & Head of Engineering, Shopify | 4 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Lexi Reese COO, Gusto | 4 | 0 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Julian Lemoine Co-Founder and CTO, Algolia | 4 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| David Cummings Co-Founder, Atlanta Tech Village | 4 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Alex Ferrara Partner, Bessemer Venture Partners | 4 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Eric Rea Co-founder & CEO, Podium | 4 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Andrew Filev Founder & CEO, Zencoder | 4 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Andrei Brasoveanu Partner, Accel | 4 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Karl Sun | 4 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Roelant Prins (Roland Prince) Chief Commercial Officer, Adyen | 4 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Leila Seka Advisor and Board Member | 4 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Tom Hale CEO, ŌURA | 4 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Merci Grace Co-Founder & CEO, Panobi | 4 | 0 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Maria Pergolino CMO & Senior VP, SPS Commerce | 4 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Devdutt Yellurkar General Partner, CRV | 4 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Josh Stein Co-Founder and Managing Partner, Threshold Ventures | 4 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Denise Persson Chief Marketing Officer, Snowflake | 4 | 0.3 | 0/10 | 3 |
| Joe Thomas Co-Founder and CEO, Loom | 4 | 0.5 | 0.5/10 | 2 |
| Cameron Deatsch Partner, BOND | 4 | 0.5 | 0.5/10 | 2 |
| Dani Grant | 4 | 1 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Dave Kellogg Executive in Residence, Balderton Capital | 4 | 1 | 2.7/10 | 7 |
| Adam Gross Board Director, Vimeo | 4 | 1 | 2.5/10 | 2 |
| Morgan Brown Chief Growth Officer, Opendoor | 4 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Martin Gontovnikas (Gonto) Co-Founder & General Partner, Hypergrowth Partners | 4 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Douwe Kiela Research Scientist Director, Google DeepMind | 4 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Sharon Zhou VP of AI, AMD | 4 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Jordan Tigani Co-Founder and CEO, MotherDuck | 4 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Caryn Marooney General Partner, Coatue | 4 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Vas Natarajan Partner, Accel | 4 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Ajay Agarwal Partner, Bain Capital Ventures | 4 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Sam Blond Co-Founder and CEO, Monaco | 4 | 1.3 | 1.3/10 | 34 |
| Ron Gabrisko Chief Revenue Officer, Databricks | 4 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Kareem Amin Co-founder & CEO, Clay | 4 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Rudina Seseri Founder & Managing Partner, Glasswing Ventures | 4 | 2 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Firmin Zocchetto Co-founder & CEO, PayFit | 4 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Daryna Kulya Co-Founder & COO, OpenPhone | 4 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Katie Burke COO, Harvey | 4 | 2 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Keri Gohman CEO, PatientNow | 4 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Jacob Jackson Machine Learning Engineer, Cursor | 4 | 3 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Kyle Parrish Partner, Craft Ventures | 4 | 4 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Arun Matthew Partner, Accel | 4 | 4 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Jay Simons General Partner, BOND | 4 | 4 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Raaz Herzberg | 4 | 4 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Robert Lacher Founding Partner, Visionaries Club | 4 | 5 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Jacob Effron Managing Director, Redpoint Ventures | 3 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Christina Shen Co-Founder and Managing Partner, Chemistry | 3 | 0 | 0.4/10 | 5 |
| Rob Giglio Chief Customer Officer, Canva | 3 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Erica Anderson Chief Revenue Officer, Notion | 3 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Lindsey Scrase COO, Checkr | 3 | 0 | 0/10 | 2 |
| Mahesh Ram Executive Director, Founders FUNDA | 3 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Rachel Wolan CPO, Webflow | 3 | 0 | 0.5/10 | 2 |
| Michelle Benfer Managing Operating Partner, Francisco Partners Consulting | 3 | 0 | 0/10 | 2 |
| Anu Muralidharan COO, Expensify | 3 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Alex Rosemblat CMO, Datadog | 3 | 0 | 1/10 | 2 |
| Peter Specht Partner, Creandum | 3 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Ed Lenta VP, APJ, ClickHouse | 3 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Gabe Monroy Chief Technology Officer, Workday | 3 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Sarah Patterson CMO, Samsara | 3 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Kady Srinivasan Chief Marketing Officer, Freshworks | 3 | 0 | 0/10 | 2 |
| Vinay Bhagat Founder and CEO, TrustRadius | 3 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Bernadette Nixon CEO, NetBrain Technologies | 3 | 0 | 1/10 | 2 |
| Sean Jacobsohn Partner, Norwest Venture Partners | 3 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Scott Beechuk Partner, Norwest Venture Partners | 3 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Veronika Riederle Co-founder & CEO, Demodesk | 3 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Alfonso de la Nuez Board Member, UserTesting | 3 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Bill Binch Partner, Battery Ventures | 3 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Molly Alter Partner, Index Ventures | 3 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Noreen Allen | 3 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Kiren Sekar Chief Product Officer, Samsara | 3 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Tom Clayton CRO, Bill.com | 3 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Katrina Wong Chief Marketing Officer, New Relic | 3 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Romain Lapeyre CEO, Gorgias | 3 | 0 | 0.5/10 | 2 |
| Zach Kitschke Chief Marketing Officer, Canva | 3 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Anna Baird Operating Partner, Madrona Venture Group | 3 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Kazuki Ohta | 3 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Amanda Malko Chief Revenue Officer, Thinkific | 3 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Vidya Peters CEO, DataSnipper | 3 | 0 | 0.5/10 | 2 |
| Olivia Nottebohm COO, Box | 3 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Tim Kopp CEO & Executive Chairman, Terminus | 3 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Sahir Azam Chief Product Officer, MongoDB | 3 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Andy Wilson Co-founder & Former CEO, Logikcull | 3 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Mehul Patel Former CEO, Hired | 3 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Ashley Smith Venture Partner, OpenView | 3 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Rajesh Ram | 3 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Kevin Egan Chief Revenue Officer, ClickHouse | 3 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Leela Srinivasan CEO, Parity | 3 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Guillaume Princen Head of France & Southern Europe, Stripe | 3 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Bob Marsh Chief Development Officer, ImpactEleven | 3 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Russ Fraden CEO, DynamicSignal | 3 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Ciara Peter SVP of Product, Robin | 3 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Emilia D'Anzica Founder & Managing Partner, Growth Molecules | 3 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Catherine Blackmore GVP Customer Success & Renewals, Oracle | 3 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Michelle Law COO, Venture Fund, Andreessen Horowitz | 3 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Leo Widrich Co-founder, Wild Life | 3 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Danny Herzberg | 3 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Sydney Sloan Chief Marketing Officer, G2 | 3 | 0.5 | 0/10 | 2 |
| Kathy Lord Chief Revenue Officer, Zensai | 3 | 0.5 | 0.5/10 | 2 |
| Brendon Cassidy Co-Founder, CoSell | 3 | 0.8 | 1.3/10 | 4 |
| Grant Lee Co-founder & CEO, Gamma | 3 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Maggie Hott GTM Leader, OpenAI | 3 | 1 | 1.3/10 | 3 |
| Chris Dean Executive, Treasury Prime | 3 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Mario Rodriguez Chief Product Officer, GitHub | 3 | 1 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Dane Knecht CTO, Cloudflare | 3 | 1 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Rick Schultz CMO, Databricks | 3 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Janine Pelosi CEO, Neat | 3 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Dini Mehta Operating Partner, Operator Collective | 3 | 1 | 1/10 | 2 |
| Sterling Snow Co-Founder & CEO, Redo | 3 | 1 | 0.5/10 | 2 |
| Colin Zima Co-Founder & CEO, Omni | 3 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Colin Jones CRO, Wiz | 3 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Lars Nilsson Founder & CEO, SalesSource | 3 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Latané Conant Chief Marketing Officer, Parloa | 3 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Stacy Epstein Chief Executive Officer, Structured | 3 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Kevin Dorsey CRO, Finally | 3 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Ryan Bonnici Chief Marketing Officer, Whereby | 3 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Darrell Benatar Co-Founder, UserTesting | 3 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Eleanor Dorfman Head of Industries, Anthropic | 3 | 2 | 0.5/10 | 2 |
| Varun Anand Co-founder & Head of Operations, Clay | 3 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Loren Padelford President, Consumer Energy, Palmetto | 3 | 2 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Mike Tamir SVP of ML/AI Engineering, Tubi | 3 | 2 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Arnaud Bonzom Founder & Managing Director, Black Mangroves | 3 | 2 | 2.5/10 | 2 |
| Piruze Sabuncu Partner, Square Peg | 3 | 2 | 4/10 | 1 |
| Carmen Yuen Former General Partner, Vertex Ventures Southeast Asia & India | 3 | 2 | 4/10 | 1 |
| Chris Merritt Operating Partner, Peak XV Partners | 3 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Brian Murray Partner & COO, Craft Ventures | 3 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Julio Avalos Co-CEO, Observable | 3 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Matt Rissell CEO, Tsheets.com | 3 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Alex Fala CFO, Tend Health | 3 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Alex Mashrabov Co-founder & CEO, Higgsfield AI | 3 | 3 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Sarah Kennedy VP, Google Cloud Marketing | 3 | 3 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Alex Kayyal | 3 | 4 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Chief Product Officer, Rubrik Chief Product Officer, Rubrik | 3 | 5 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Ryan Anderson Co-Founder & CEO, Filevine | 2 | 0 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Philippe Lacour Chief Revenue Officer, Personio | 2 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Abbas Haider Ali Chief Customer Officer, Atlassian | 2 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Rami Karabibar Co-founder & CEO, EvenUp | 2 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Jane Lee Partner, Shopify Ventures | 2 | 0 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Kieran Saker Chief Product Officer, Samsara | 2 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Christine Edmonds GP & Head of Analytics, ICONIQ Growth | 2 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| OpenAI's Head of Sales Head of Sales, OpenAI | 2 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Merve Nazlioglu CMO, Insider | 2 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Cherishma Shah VP, GTM Strategy & Operations, Box | 2 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Chris Perrine VP & MD, Asia Pacific, G2 | 2 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Tara Robertson | 2 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Mark Velthuis Founder and CEO, blankKANVAS | 2 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Damien Tampling Head of Agent Strategy, APAC, Sierra | 2 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Scott Pugh | 2 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Lucas Fox Founding Partner, Avra | 2 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Cliff Bockard Global VP of Sales, Duda | 2 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Cynthia Gumbert Chief Marketing Officer, Litera | 2 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Michelle Adams President of Field Operations, Algolia | 2 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Hillary Ball Partner, Atomico | 2 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Lauren Wright VP of Sales, Net Purpose | 2 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Sophie Chesters Chief Marketing Officer, HiBob | 2 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Holly Firestone | 2 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Poorvi Shrivastav GM & VP, Products, HubSpot | 2 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Maya Colato VP of Customer Experience, Mapistry | 2 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Asawari Samant VP of Marketing, Hasura | 2 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Melissa Murray Bailey CRO, Hootsuite | 2 | 0 | 4/10 | 1 |
| Dorian Stone Head of Organizations Revenue, Grammarly | 2 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Amy Appleyard SVP of Sales, North America, Mimecast | 2 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Pablo Dominguez Operating Partner, Insight Partners | 2 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Andrea Webb Former Chief Customer Officer, SolarWinds | 2 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Javier Molina Head of Revenue, Nominal | 2 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Hilary Headley Operating Partner, Insight Partners | 2 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Jane Kim VP of Revenue, CircleCI | 2 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Agnes Bazin Board Member, Explain | 2 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Roger Scott EVP & Chief Customer Officer, New Relic | 2 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Theresa O'Neil | 2 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Pat Poels Chief Technology Officer, Built Technologies | 2 | 0 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Matt Schatz SVP of Sales, WPEngine | 2 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Molly Ford VP, Talent Connection & Engagement, Salesforce | 2 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Alex Western Managing Director, Think3 | 2 | 0 | 4/10 | 1 |
| Dimitri Stanimiroff CEO & Co-Founder, Heresy | 2 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Scott Schnarz Founder, Yirla | 2 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Russell Smith Co-founder & CEO, 9 Mothers | 2 | 0 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Kyle Norton Chief Revenue Officer, Owner.com | 2 | 0.7 | 1.3/10 | 3 |
| Amelia Ibarra Co-Host, The Agents | 2 | 0.9 | 0.9/10 | 10 |
| Amelia Salyers Head of Storytelling, Notion | 2 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Ashley Wilson Co-Founder and COO, Momentum | 2 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Diego Zaks VP of Design, Ramp | 2 | 1 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Vincent van der Meulen Design Engineer, Figma | 2 | 1 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Gail Moody-Byrd Founder & CEO, Distill.Works | 2 | 1 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Matt Plank Chief Revenue Officer, Rippling | 2 | 1 | 1.5/10 | 2 |
| Ashley Kelly VP of Global Sales Development, Rippling | 2 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Hannah Wilson Chief Revenue Officer, Nooks | 2 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Jameson Yung SVP of International Sales, Rippling | 2 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Carlos Delatorre Chief Revenue Officer, Harness | 2 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Sarah Varney Chief Marketing Officer, Datadog | 2 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Jen Knight Co-founder and CTO, AgentSync | 2 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Mark Wayland Former Chief Revenue Officer, Box | 2 | 3 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Justin Bedecarre CEO and Co-founder, Raise Commercial Real Estate | 2 | 5 | 4/10 | 1 |
| Chief Product Officer, Glean Chief Product Officer, Glean | 2 | 5 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Anique Drumright Chief Product Officer, Harvey | 2 | 5 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Ross Beesman CRO, ServiceTitan | 1 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Graham Moreno Head of GTM, Parallel Web Systems | 1 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Kathy Choi Partner, Meritech Capital | 1 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Elizabeth Pemeril Chief Revenue Officer, GitHub | 1 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Akshay Sharma Co-founder and Head of Product, Morph Systems | 1 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Karsten Holm VP of Pricing and Monetization, Splunk | 1 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Janie Lee VP of Product, Abridge | 1 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Allison Harmon Head of Growth, OpenAI | 1 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Pia Heilman | 1 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Lucy Fonseca | 1 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Curran Singh VP of GTM Strategy, LaunchDarkly | 1 | 0 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Giancarlo Leonetti (GC) Chief Commercial Officer, OpenAI | 1 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Jonathan Vassell CRO, Toast | 1 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Robert Lopez CEO, accessiBe | 1 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Justin Betakure CEO and Co-founder, Raise Commercial Real Estate | 1 | 0 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Jeff (Yosh) Co-Founder & Chief Growth Officer, AnyTeam | 1 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Heather Equibo VP of Sales | 1 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Tony Benvenuto SVP of Sales, Seismic | 1 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Naomi Rozenfeld VP of Revenue, Wix Answers | 1 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Miki Alon Co-Founder and CEO, Foldspace AI | 1 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Gordana "G" Vukovic Chief Revenue Officer, Alokai | 1 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Tim Willey SVP of Commercial Strategy & Operations, ForgeRock | 1 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Menlo Ventures Investor | 1 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Jennifer Lawrence Chief Revenue Officer, Redpanda | 1 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Jon Stewart CEO, MapAnything | 1 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Zach Smucha | 1 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| John Strauss Advisor and Co-founder, Greenhouse Software | 1 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Marchelle Mooney VP of Sales, Mangomint | 1 | 0.7 | 2.3/10 | 3 |
| Emilio Barut | 1 | 1 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Nicole Baer CMO, Carta | 1 | 1 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Axel Kebaili Senior Director of Growth Operations, Gorgias | 1 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Kate Allering VP, Sales Solutions North America, LinkedIn | 1 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Mark Whalen Co-Founder and CEO, Paz | 1 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Christian Smith CRO, Splunk (former CRO, Brex) max 8 words -> CRO, Splunk max 2 words. role: | 1 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Carrie-Lou Dietrich Operating Partner, Growth, Andreessen Horowitz | 1 | 1 | 1/10 | 3 |
| Amelia LeRutte Chief AI Officer, SaaStr | 1 | 1.1 | 1/10 | 7 |
| Kelly Loftus Head of Startup Sales, Anthropic | 1 | 3 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Gorkem Yurtseven Representative, Fal | 1 | 3 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Daniel Laniado (Daniel Lang) | 1 | 3 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Dominic Grill Head of Technical Success, OpenAI | 1 | 4 | 1/10 | 1 |
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