James Walpole is the marketing and communications manager at BitPay, the world’s leading processor of bitcoin payments. He joined the BitPay team at age 18 after opting out of attending college. He’s a graduate of the startup apprenticeship program Praxis and writes at the Praxis blog and jameswalpole.com

Kyle is the founder of Conversion Cake, a business that he started while still in school that specializes in content strategy and and sales funnels.  He is also the author of The College Entrepreneur, which is a book on how to leverage your university to build a business, escape the rat race and live life on your own terms. In the past he worked as a content manager for WP Curve and he helped them grow to nearly one billion in annual recurring revenue. 

Troy is an online marketing speaker, coach, consultant, and podcaster. He specializes in helping businesses and entrepreneurs use the internet to attract new customers and build their communities. Some notable things he's accomplished: he managed the marketing strategy for Jessica Watson, the 16 year old Australian girl who sailed around the world, he helped FebFast (an Australian based health challenge program) raise over one million dollars in 2011 and 2012, and he is also a professional voice over artist, and he has voiced campaigns for hundreds of brands including Ford, Telstra Hungry Jacks, Mitsubishi, and more. His current project is called Rockstar Empires, which is a course on how to create your own course and sell it online.

Zachary Slayback is an entrepreneur who writes on issues of education, innovation, and philosophy. He is an Ivy League dropout and speaks regularly on education, college, how and why to foster more entrepreneurship, and issues related to professional development. He believes that entrepreneurs are the primary actors of social change.

Zak is also founding team member of Praxis and He was one of LinkedIn’s most influential voices on education in 2015 and has been published at Newsweek, the New York Examiner, the Daily Caller, the Pittsburgh Post Gazette, the Christian Science Monitor, the Foundation for Economic Education’s Anything Peaceful and many other publications. he has also appeared on The Glenn Beck Program and HuffPost Live.