Regina Ye Cofounder & CEO
Regina, is a Gen-Z entrepreneur and former small vendor. In college, she founded the beauty ecommerce brand, Zirui, and spent many tireless nights trying to understand Facebook and Amazon Ads. Today, her sights are set on demystifying the advertising industry for all.
“It’s about keeping the product simple and with warmth.”
Francisco Larrain Cofounder & CTO
Francisco, a son of a single mom who grew up Jewish in a Catholic society in Chile and found engineering a safe heaven and also a fun game to obsess with. He is the first Chilean entrepreneur to exit a startup to Silicon Valley. Formerly a hedge fund analyst, he led engineering at Groupon for 5 years to build out its merchant system. He was a venture investor and now spends all of his time thinking about Topsort’s engineering puzzles.
“Technology makes a difference.”
Michael Ostrovsky Cofounder & Chief Scientist
Mike, is a professor at Stanford Graduate School of Business and a world-renowned economist on auction theory, game theory, and marketplace design. Over the past 2 decades he’s worked with the best names in adtech, from Yahoo to Google, to Linkedin and Pinterest and he believes firmly in the power of simplification and how auction-based advertising can work in much simpler and long-tail marketplaces.
“It takes two engaged players to create an auction.”