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John Hu is the Co-Founder and CEO of Stan, the all-in-one platform that enables entrepreneurs to build, operate and scale their digital businesses. After experiencing firsthand how fragmented and inefficient the Creator-commerce ecosystem was, John created Stan to give entrepreneurs a single operating system for running and growing an online business.

With a mission to empower anyone to make a living working for themselves, Stan now supports over 80,000 creator-entrepreneurs and was recognized on Forbes' Next Billion-Dollar Startups list. Today, Stan continues to expand with tools designed to accelerate growth, streamline operations, and help Creator-entrepreneurs build sustainable, independent businesses.

The son of an immigrant, single mother, John grew up with a belief that financial independence should be accessible to all. John began his career at Goldman Sachs, before co-founding Stan in 2021.

Saanya is a Partner at Bain Capital Ventures, where she leads growth-stage investments in cloud infrastructure, cybersecurity and the developer ecosystem.

Previously, she was a partner at Coatue, focusing on growth investments after having started her career as a hedge fund analyst at Goldman Sachs Investment Partners, a long/short fundamental equity fund. A career investor, she is driven by the fundamental question of what makes a good business and has experience investing across stages, verticals and geographies.

Originally from India, Saanya now lives in San Francisco but has lived and worked in New York, Hong Kong and Singapore.