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TOMI ADEYEMI, 26
Author
NANA KWAME ADJEI-
BRENYAH, 28
Author
MAX BEARAK, 29
Nairobi bureau chief, Washington Post
CYRUS BESCHLOSS, 23
Founder, College Reaction
ELIZABETH BRUENIG, 29
Opinion columnist, Washington Post
110 JOE BRUNO, 27
Reporter, WSOC-TV
ADAM BUTTERFIELD, 29
Senior programming
producer, Snap
BONNIE CAO, 29
Senior manager, business
development, CNN
NOUR CHAMOUN, 28
Cofounder, Scopio
JACIE DEHOOP, 27;
ELLEN HYSLOP, 27;
ROSLYN MCLARTY, 27
Cofounders, The GIST
JOSE DEL REAL, 29
National correspondent,
New York Times
TAYLOR DUNN, 28
Producer, ABC News
SARA FISCHER, 29
Media reporter, Axios
KEVIN GUO, 28;
DMITRIY KARPMAN, 29
Cofounders, Hive AI
MEDIA FAYE KEEGAN, 29
GINA GUTIERREZ, 29;
Cofounders, Dipsea
ANTONIA HYLTON, 26
Correspondent, Vice Media
EMILY KASSIE, 27
Director of visual projects,
The Marshall Project
KEVIN GUO, 28
MACKENZI LEE, 28
Author
COFOU NDE R, HI VE A I
AARON LEMKE, 29
Cofounder, Wave

To keep offensive images off their sites, companies
like Facebook, Google and Twitter spend billions to ALEXI MCCAMMOND, 26
National political reporter, Axios
hire tens of thousands of low-paid workers to censor
TAMER MORSY, 29
foul or illegal content. It’s a tedious and taxing gig. Founder, Spotlight Media Labs
“Humans shouldn’t do that job,” says Hive AI CEO
ERNEST OWENS, 28
Kevin Guo. “We’ve built solutions that can get rid of Writer at large,
Philadelphia magazine
up to 99% of that work.” Hive, which Guo founded in
2013 with CTO Dmitriy Karpman, makes software to DEANNA PAN, 29
Reporter, Boston Globe

tag and flag millions of images and videos across so-
LINDSAY PEOPLES WAGNER, 29
cial media and the Web. Guo is secretive about his Editor in chief, Teen Vogue
U.S. clients, but Yubo, a French social video platform
DANIELLA PIERSON, 24
for teens, uses Hive to keep nasty content from its Founder, The Newsette

20 million users. Hive has uses beyond screening. It ELAINA PLOTT, 26
can also search for images of celebrities, brands and White House correspondent,
The Atlantic
products across millions of sources, giving compa-
BEN PROUDFOOT, 29
nies analytics about where, when and how their Founder, Breakwater Studios
assets are seen. Founders Fund, General
SNIGDHA SUR, 29
Catalyst, 8VC and others have invested Founder, The Juggernaut
more than $50 million. Guo’s next CATHERINE TAIBI, 28
feature: audio detection. Head of social and audience
development, TicToc by Bloomberg
—Ariel Shapiro, Hayley
LIZZ WARNER, 29
Cuccinello, Brett Knight
Director of editorial video, Bring Me!,
BuzzFeed
JUDGES: MELISSA BELL, COFOUNDER, VOX; DON LEMON, ANCHOR, CNN; HERNAN LOPEZ, FOUNDER, WONDERY;
KIM PATEL, DIRECTOR OF GLOBAL CORPORATE STRATEGY, VICE MEDIA (UNDER 30 CLASS OF 2019).
KEVIN GUO WEARS AN L.B.M. DOUBLE-BREASTED DENIM JACKET AND AN ISAIA BLACK CASHMERE TURTLENECK SHIRT.

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