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Becca Lindquist is a software sales executive known for scaling go-to-market teams through operational playbooks that accelerate ramp-up, reward performance aggressively, and prioritize adaptability over static domain experience from early stages toward the $100M ARR milestone.
Aza Raskin, an interface designer, invented infinite scroll, then confronted how platforms used it to maximize engagement at users’ expense, leading him toward humane technology and sharper questions about digital addiction, AI risk, and respecting human limits.
Avi Goldfarb is a University of Toronto economist who reframes artificial intelligence as a measurable decline in prediction costs, clarifying how cheaper prediction reshapes human judgment, organizational design, market structure, and the tradeoffs surrounding data privacy.
Arvind Krishna became IBM’s CEO and pushed the century-old company beyond protecting legacy hardware, centering speed, open-source software, and AI while offering a case study in remaking business models, managing heavy capital demands, and surviving technological shifts.
Arsalan Tavakoli, Databricks co-founder and SVP of Field Engineering, brings experience spanning a computer science PhD, McKinsey, and enterprise data platforms to questions of hypergrowth, cloud migration realities, and why software monopolies may lose defensive moats.
Ariel Cohen co-founded Navan to improve corporate travel and expense reporting, applying consumer-app standards to enterprise software and AI to customer-support routing while developing practical lessons on hypergrowth, startup scaling, and challenging entrenched business models.
Anton Howes, a historian, studies the British Industrial Revolution, arguing that invention is a transmitted cultural practice rather than an innate human trait and tracing how an “improving mentality,” historical transparency, and early machinery helped progress accelerate.
Anthony Tan co-founded Grab and grew a Malaysian taxi-booking service into Southeast Asia’s leading ride-hailing and delivery network by adapting operations to local infrastructure and regulation, grounding lessons in market competition, hands-on management, and real consumer problems.