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Jonah Berger is a Wharton marketing professor who studies how language shapes perception and choice, connecting the psychology of word-of-mouth with frameworks for overcoming resistance to explain the human behavior and persuasive forces behind what catches on.
Jean-Denis Grèze, former Plaid CTO and co-founder and CEO of Town, offers practical frameworks for engineering leadership, from “spiky” organizational design and probabilistic management to hiring, infrastructure scaling, and the disciplined management of technical teams.
Ian Wong, Opendoor co-founder and former CTO and Square’s first data scientist, shows how operations-heavy businesses can become automated systems at scale, pairing data science and technical leadership with software grounded in real-world workflows.
Gagan Biyani, co-founder of Udemy, Sprig, and Maven, examines how active, cohort-based learning can replace passive video libraries, while Minimum Viable Testing, marketplace dynamics, early growth, and founder psychology sharpen the work of building companies.
Giancarlo “GC” Lionetti, a marketing and growth leader across Atlassian, Dropbox, Confluent, Zapier, and OpenAI, explains hybrid go-to-market: connect self-serve product adoption with enterprise sales, then align product-led growth, pricing, and AI commercialization.
Major Dr. Deepak Rao, an Indian military trainer, physician, and author, developed Close Quarter Battle training for the Indian Armed Forces and connects mental endurance, tactical decision-making, combat psychology, and Zen principles under pressure.
Dave Girouard, Upstart co-founder and former CEO and former Google Enterprise president, treats fast decision-making as a learnable company habit, connecting speed with startup scaling, management by exception, and the use of AI in consumer credit.
Daniel Debow, a Canadian entrepreneur and investor who co-founded Workbrain, Rypple, and Helpful before serving at Shopify, connects continuous workplace feedback and culture scaling with acquisition discipline, national productivity, and economic reform through Build Canada.