Jon Fisher is a Silicon Valley entrepreneur, investor, author, speaker, philanthropist, and inventor. Fisher is known for advocating start-up acquisition strategy versus an IPO and is the author of Strategic Entrepreneurism: Shattering the Start-Up Entrepreneurial Myths.

Jon is a recipient of the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award (Emerging Category, 2007), and is a prolific inventor, named on more than 100 patents issued and pending worldwide. Jon spoke of a path of least resistance building software companies in a University of San Francisco commencement address, which has been viewed more than 6 million times and will be the subject of a book by John Wiley & Sons, Inc. coming in the fall of 2021. Artwork of Jon's speech sold at auction as the 89th most valuable NFT on April 29, 2021. Jon serves on the Democratic National Committee's national finance team. Jon lives in Marin County, California, with his wife and daughter.

Gerald A. Fisher has been an active member of the nuclear physics community for over 50 years. After graduating with a B.S. in Physics and Mathematics from the City College of New York, he received his PhD in nuclear physics from Stanford University. As a visiting professor, he did research in the field of nuclear physics and taught at Stanford University. At San Francisco State University, he worked as the department head of physics for 20 years.

Wallace Wang has written over 50 books, including Microsoft Office for Dummies, Steal This Computer Book, and co-authored Strategic Entrepreneurism and Breaking into Acting for Dummies. When he's not teaching iPhone programming and game design, he blogs about screenwriting at his site, the 15 Minute Movie Method (www.15minutemoviemethod.com), where he shares tips about story structure and scene writing for screenplays. He also runs the Cat Daily News (www.catdailynews.com) website for cat enthusiasts.