Jorge M. Torres teaches venture capital at Yale and Cornell Tech and created Venture Fluent, a cohort-based course on the language and practice of venture investing. He has taught hundreds of students, many of them working today as company founders and investors. A Kauffman Fellow, he previously invested in early-stage consumer brands at Silas Capital.

Jacob Mullins has spent more than 20 years in Silicon Valley as a founder, operator and investor. He is Managing Director at Shasta Ventures, a Venture Partner at Village Global, and founder and CEO of GPGPT, an AI built for venture and private equity firms that reasons over a firm's own memos, deal history and portfolio documents rather than the public internet. He also hosts the VC Mastermind podcast.