The Hog

Paulo Nascimento

Paulo Nascimento is a AI expert who began winning hackathons at age 14. He began his professional career as Auth0’s youngest hire at age 17, where he later served as the company’s first GenAI engineer under Okta, architecting tools that accelerated developer onboarding. Most recently, Paulo was the first AI hire at Ravenna (backed by Khosla & Madrona), where he built production agents for IT workflows. He is a specialist in autonomous systems with a patent pending in multi-agent management.

Hudson Liao

Hudson Liao is a growth operator with nearly 15 years in GTM and a 5× first growth and marketing hire. He took one startup from ~$900k to $7M+ ARR in 3 months, led another from two months of runway to profitability, and built repeatable playbooks across search, social, outbound, partnerships, and product-led motions. He is the GTM person you call when outcomes matter.