Marissa Mayer was Google's employee No. 20 and its first woman engineer, ran Yahoo! from 2012 to 2017 until its sale to Verizon, and founded the AI company Dazzle AI.
Tom Siebel worked at Oracle, founded Siebel Systems, sold it to Oracle in 2006 and now leads the AI software company C3.ai.
Lisa Su has led AMD since 2014, growing its market value from roughly $3 billion to more than $700 billion and overtaking Intel in market capitalization for the first time.
Sam Altman dropped out of Stanford to found Loopt, ran Y Combinator, and has led OpenAI as CEO since 2019, overseeing the November 2022 launch of ChatGPT. He was ousted and reinstated within five days in 2023.
Jensen Huang founded Nvidia in a Denny's restaurant in 1993 and steered it from near-bankruptcy to the world's most valuable company on the back of GPUs and AI.
Frontier AI labs need expert humans to grade, correct and stress-test their models. Deccan AI, founded in 2023, built a network of over a million contributors — students, domain experts and PhDs — largely in India, and sells that work to Google DeepMind and Snowflake.
The man who built India's largest data centre company did it again, for AI. Founded in 2023, Neysa now runs 20,000+ GPUs across Mumbai and Hyderabad — close to 30% of India's high-end AI compute — backed by a Blackstone-led raise of up to $1.2 billion.
Two engineers in Bengaluru got tired of rebuilding the same plumbing for every AI app, so they built it once and sold it to everyone. Three years and $18 million later, Palo Alto Networks bought the company.
