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Erik began his PhD research at MIT studying collective intelligence, where he explored how groups of humans and machines can make better decisions together than any individual alone. Inspired by his wife’s experience in medical training, he applied this work to medicine, running large-scale experiments on how to combine the judgments of clinicians and AI systems to more accurately assess skin lesions for cancer.

His research showed that weighting opinions by performance, rather than credentials or seniority, and identifying complementary strengths between humans and algorithms consistently outperformed even the best individual doctor or AI model. This work became the foundation of Centaur Labs, now Centaur.ai.

Cat is the co-founder and CEO of Simple AI. She studied computer science and mathematics at MIT.

Before starting Simple AI, Cat spent four years at Y Combinator, leading the software teams behind Startup School, the YC Library, and YC’s Co-Founder Matching platform. Her work focused on building tools that help founders learn, connect, and start companies more effectively.

Anna studied Computer Science and Business Management at MIT, where she served as class president for a class of over 1,300 students and organized large-scale social and community events. That experience shaped her interest in building trust, coordination, and systems that operate at scale.

Before founding Nowadays, Anna was a Product Manager at Datadog, where she worked on metrics products to help teams optimize costs and build stronger relationships with customers. Outside of work, she enjoys making violin videos and going on long runs.