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EMILIANO KARGIEMAN Founder & CEO, Satellogic REID HOFFMAN Co-Founder & Executive Chairman, LinkedIn and Partner, Greylock Partners Emiliano Kargieman, known to his friends as "EK", has spent the last 25 years building technology and technology companies. As a founder of Core Security Technologies, EK developed the first automated penetration testing software, earning the loyalty of clients such as Apple, Cisco, Homeland Security, NSA, NASA, Lockheed Martin, and DARPA. As the co-founder and Managing Director of the venture capital firm Aconcagua Ventures, EK focused on investing in high-tech startups in Latin America to develop them as global businesses. In the summer of 2010, after serendipitously spending some time at the NASA Ames campus in Mountain View, he started developing the concept that would become Satellogic. Emiliano is 40, has a formal background in Number Theory and Philosophy and is married to Pola, a fiction author who shares his passion for technology. When not thinking about, or building technology, Emiliano enjoys reading, writing, playing chess and other random sports. He is trying to learn to play the trumpet. An accomplished entrepreneur, executive, and investor, Reid has played an integral role in building many of today's leading consumer technology businesses, including LinkedIn and PayPal. He possesses a unique understanding of consumer behavior and the dynamics of viral businesses, as well as deep experience in driving companies from the earliest stages through periods of explosive, "blitzscale" growth. Reid co-founded LinkedIn, the world's largest professional networking service, in 2003. He led LinkedIn through its first four years and to profitability as Chief Executive Officer. Prior to LinkedIn, Reid served as Executive Vice President at PayPal, where he was also a Founding Board Member. Reid joined Greylock Partners in 2009. He focuses on building products that can reach hundreds of millions of participants and businesses that have network effects. He currently serves on the boards of Airbnb, Edmodo, Xapo, and Linkedin, among others. He serves on a number of not-for-profit boards, including Kiva, Mozilla Corporation, Endeavor, and Do Something. Prior to joining Greylock, he angel invested in many influential Internet companies, including Facebook, Flickr, Last.fm, and Zynga. Reid earned a master's degree in philosophy from Oxford University, where he was a Marshall Scholar, and a bachelor's degree with distinction in symbolic systems from Stanford University. 7 S P E A K E R S