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Carles Reina, a London-based go-to-market executive and VP of Revenue at ElevenLabs, applies a demanding “20x quota” model to building high-performance sales teams, taking AI products into enterprise markets, and evaluating early-stage founders through Baobab Ventures.
Carl Rivera, a product designer who co-founded Tictail before leading design and consumer product work at Shopify and becoming Nubank’s Chief Product Officer, examines how marketplaces, design teams, and product development must adapt to artificial intelligence.
Cameron Deatsch spent over a decade at Atlassian, ultimately serving as Chief Revenue Officer while a strict product-led growth model kept sales friction and marketing costs unusually low, offering lessons in ecosystems, enterprise scale, and unstructured careers.
Bruce Springsteen maps the distance between the American dream and working-class reality through sharp songwriting and marathon performances, giving ordinary struggles and quiet dignity a voice while exploring creativity, leadership, and meaning in rock and roll.
Brian Potter, a structural engineer and Institute for Progress fellow, studies why physical infrastructure is so difficult to build efficiently, using Construction Physics and The Origins of Efficiency to connect housing, energy, and transportation costs with historical and regulatory forces.
Brian Niccol made his name reviving stalled restaurant chains at Taco Bell and Chipotle by cutting operational clutter, sticking to core products, and improving frontline conditions—a focused approach to brand identity, operations, and leadership across large restaurant chains.
Brian Moynihan took over Bank of America amid financial crisis and replaced aggressive acquisitions with “Responsible Growth,” applying calm, methodical management to extreme complexity while developing practical rules for crisis leadership, stakeholder capitalism, and running a global bank.
Brian Grazer, the producer behind A Beautiful Mind and Apollo 13, built a Hollywood career around questions, scheduling conversations with experts beyond entertainment and arguing that face-to-face curiosity reliably sparks creativity while pushing back fear.