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| Building At The Frontier: Hypergrowth Startup Operator Panel
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| With Johnathan Bridges (Founding Marketing, Antimetal), Brian Zhou (Engineer, Cognition), Ella Colby (MTS, Rogo), Matt Garcia (Business Operations & Strategy Lead, Tennr), Justine Mach (President, CORE), Antonio Warren (Senior Associate, Bleecker Street). |
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Oct 08 (Thu) @ 06:00 PM
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| | Columbia University, 116th and Broadway
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Join CORE & Bleecker Street for a fireside chat with operators at some of the top AI startups today, ranging from engineers & researchers to business strategists & marketing leads. Hear about what it's like to build & operate at the AI frontier.
Whether you're aiming for a top startup after graduation or simply want to learn how the best operators think & work, this is a rare chance to hear it firsthand. Come ready with questions!
Meet the speakers:
Johnathan Bridges, Founding Marketing @ Antimetal
Johnathan recently joined Antimetal as a founding marketer after nearly two years of working in Growth at Tennr. A Stanford grad (and former Class President), he'll talk about choosing a startup, taking on early leadership, & building a brand from zero.
About Antimetal: Antimetal is building an autonomous AI system for managing software in production that diagnoses & fixes infrastructure issues so engineering teams can focus on building.
Brian Zhou, Engineer @ Cognition
Brian graduated from Princeton in May with a degree in Computer Science & now builds AI tools for federal customers at Cognition. His work spans product, ML infrastructure, & forward-deployed engineering. Previously, he wrote Starlink's wifi telemetry system at SpaceX as a founding member of the Aviation team.
About Cognition: Cognition is the company behind Devin, the first fully autonomous AI software engineer, & one of the fastest-growing companies in AI coding.
Ella Colby, MTS @ Rogo
Ella joined Rogo as a Member of the Technical Staff after graduating from Princeton in May with a degree in Computer Science. Before Rogo, she conducted ML research in Professor Elad Hazan's Google Deepmind research group on AI alignment, spectral transformers, & PDEs, & she completed a software engineering internship at Bloomberg.
About Rogo: Rogo is the AI operating system for finance. With a suite of agents purpose-built for Wall Street, it's trained to understand how bankers & investors actually work: from sourcing, diligence & modeling, to turning analysis into deliverables. Its model-agnostic architecture runs the best model for each task, so a firm's intelligence compounds over time.
Matt Garcia, Business Operations & Strategy Lead @ Tennr
Matt works on Business Operations & Strategy at Tennr, contributing across revenue strategy, process optimization, special projects, & more. Matt joined Tennr after 2.5 years at McKinsey. A Brown grad, he'll speak to what ops & strategy look like inside a fast-scaling company & what it's really like to take the leap from strategy consulting to a startup.
About Tennr: Tennr uses AI to automate referrals, ensure payor-ready documentation, boost conversions, & cut denials, helping providers get patients from referral to treatment faster.
Meet the hosts:
Justine Mach, President @ CORE
Justine is one of CORE's Presidents & studies Computer Science & History at Columbia while working as a GTM Engineer at Forus outside of class. Justine has earned experience across the startup/venture ecosystem, working across Growth & Engineering at Browserbase, Growth at Dedalus Labs (YC S25), & software engineering at Zoomprop. She's also a Venture Partner at Contrary.
Antonio Warren, Senior Associate @ Bleecker Street
Antonio is a Senior Associate at Bleecker Street, where he started as the firm's Founding Associate. He places candidates at startups backed by firms like Andreessen Horowitz, Founders Fund, Sequoia, & Kleiner Perkins & graduated from Princeton in 2025 with a degree in Architecture.
About CORE:
CORE is an undergraduate entrepreneurship society cultivating Columbia's community for student founders, engineers, & operators. CORE hosts events with the likes of OpenAI, YC, & a16z, runs the Almaworks accelerator (100+ startups graduated, raising >$150M total), & hosts the CORE Fellowship internship program, recruiting & pairing motivated Columbia students with impactful internship opportunities in the New York Area.
About Bleecker Street:
Bleecker Street is an NYC-based executive search firm that places talent into top startups backed by some of the best venture capital firms in the world, including 8VC, Accel, Andreessen Horowitz, Founders Fund, Khosla Ventures, Kleiner Perkins, & Sequoia, among others.
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