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Kara Swisher is an American progressive technology business journalist and co-founder of technology news website, Recode. In additional to be a journalist and entrepreneur, she is also the host of the podcast "Sway" and co-host of "Pivot"

Karen Weise is a technology correspondent for The New York Times, Amazon, Microsoft, and the region's tech scene.

Joshua March is the chief executive of SciFi Foods, the lab-grown meat company.

Justin Pierre James Trudeau is a politician.

Jason Kilar is a businessperson. He is the CEO of WarnerMedia.

Nancy Pelosi is a democratic party politician serving as speaker of the United States House of Representatives since January 2019.

Lina Khan is an associate professor at Columbia Law School, writer, and scholar.

Elon Musk is an engineer, industrial designer, technology entrepreneur, and philanthropist. Elon Musk is the founder, CEO and chief engineer/designer of SpaceX; co-founder, CEO and product architect of Tesla, Inc.; founder of The Boring Company; co-founder of Neuralink; and co-founder and initial co-chairman of OpenAI. Elon Musk has been on several podcasts, most notably his appearances on the Joe Rogan Experience podcast.Musk is a citizen of South Africa, the United States (where he has lived most of his life and currently resides), and Canada. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2018. In December 2016, he was ranked 21st on the Forbes list of The World's Most Powerful People, and was ranked joint-first on the Forbes list of the Most Innovative Leaders of 2019. As of May 2020, he has a net worth of $39.4 billion and is listed by Forbes as the 23rd-richest person in the world. He is the longest tenured CEO of any automotive manufacturer globally.Born and raised in Pretoria, South Africa, Musk briefly attended the University of Pretoria before moving to Canada when he was 17 to attend Queen's University. He transferred to the University of Pennsylvania two years later, where he received a bachelor's degree in economics from the Wharton School and a bachelor's degree in physics from the College of Arts and Sciences. He began a Ph.D. in applied physics and material sciences at Stanford University in 1995 but dropped out after two days to pursue a business career. He subsequently co-founded (with his brother Kimbal) Zip2, a web software company, which was acquired by Compaq for $340 million in 1999. Musk then founded X.com, an online bank. It merged with Confinity in 2000, which had launched PayPal the previous year and was subsequently bought by eBay for $1.5 billion in October 2002.In May 2002, Elon Musk founded SpaceX, an aerospace manufacturer and space transport services company, of which he is CEO and lead designer. He joined Tesla Motors, Inc. (now Tesla, Inc.), an electric vehicle manufacturer, in 2004, the year after it was founded, and became its CEO and product architect. In 2006, he inspired the creation of SolarCity, a solar energy services company (now a subsidiary of Tesla). In 2015, Musk co-founded OpenAI, a nonprofit research company that aims to promote friendly artificial intelligence. In July 2016, he co-founded Neuralink, a neurotechnology company focused on developing brain–computer interfaces. In December 2016, Musk founded The Boring Company, an infrastructure and tunnel construction company focused on tunnels optimized for electric vehicles.Apart from Tesla, Musk is not an investor in the stock market. In addition to his primary business pursuits, Musk has envisioned a high-speed transportation system known as the Hyperloop, and has proposed a vertical take-off and landing supersonic jet electric aircraft with electric fan propulsion, known as the Musk electric jet. Musk has said the goals of SpaceX, Tesla, and SolarCity revolve around his vision to "change the world and help humanity". His goals include reducing global warming through sustainable energy production and consumption, and reducing the risk of human extinction by establishing a human colony on Mars.

Dr. Dario Amodei is co-founder and chief executive officer at Anthropic, an artificial intelligence safety and research company working to build reliable, interpretable and steerable AI systems.Previously, Amodei was Vice President of Research at OpenAI. Before that, he was a senior research scientist at Google, where he worked on neural networks on the Google Brain team.Amodei received his B.S. in Physics from Stanford University and his Ph.D. in Biophysics from Princeton University.

Aravind Srinivas is the founder and CEO of Perplexity AI.

Jonah Goldberg is a conservative syndicated columnist, author, political analyst, and commentator.

Bob Iger is a media executive and businessman who is the former chairman and CEO of the Walt Disney Company.

Michael Pollan is an American author, journalist, activist, and the Lewis K. Chan Arts Lecturer and Professor of Practice of Non-Fiction at Harvard University.

Kashmir Hill is a journalist who writes about technology and privacy for the Special Project Desk at Gizmodo Media Group.

Blair Braverman is an adventurer, dogsled racer, musher, advice columnist, and nonfiction writer.

Pete Buttigieg is the Secretary of Transportation. Buttigieg is a veteran, musician, and businessman, and is formerly known as South Bend's "Mayor Pete."

Ben Smith is a former BuzzFeed editor and New York Times media columnist.

Emily Baker-White is a technology journalist. Currently, she reports for Forbes.Baker-White recieved her B.A. Politics and Viola Performance from Oberlin College and her J.D. from Harvard Law School.

Yuval Noah Harari is an author, public intellectual, historian, and Professor in the Department of History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.