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Parag Agrawal, a computer scientist and former Twitter CTO and CEO, started Project Bluesky to decentralize social media and now builds infrastructure for autonomous AI agents. His work probes scalable systems and AI’s potential to reshape web economics.
Zack Kanter, founder and CEO of Stedi, is rebuilding the infrastructure of B2B commerce. His thinking connects corporate strategy, the economics of automation, and Amazon’s “bounded search,” offering a sharp lens on how durable operating systems emerge.
Jyoti Bansal, a software engineer turned serial founder, built AppDynamics, Harness, and Traceable AI. His “Four Lists” roadmap and “startups within a startup” model illuminate how technical B2B companies can scale, organize teams, and navigate enterprise sales.
Anil Varanasi, CEO and co-founder of Meter, approaches business internet infrastructure as a vertically integrated utility. His arguments connect long-term company building, autonomous networks, and the need for enterprise IT to deliver a consumer-grade user experience.
Keller Cliffton, co-founder and CEO of Zipline, proved drone logistics at national scale by turning complex engineering into an invisible utility. His experience offers practical guidance on building hardtech, extending logistics across markets, and surviving early skepticism.
Diya Jolly, Chief Product and Technology Officer at Xero, argues against rigid roadmaps as systems grow more automated. Her approach to product management favors adaptability, raising a useful question: how should organizational decisions evolve when technology changes faster?
Sheila Joglekar Vashee, Figma’s CMO and Dropbox’s second marketing hire, specializes in the shift from product-led growth to enterprise sales. Her methods examine how marketing teams can preserve brand identity, engage customers, and reach mass scale.
Jay Kreps, co-creator of Apache Kafka and co-founder and CEO of Confluent, formalized the append-only log as a central integration point for enterprise data. His work illuminates distributed-system design, the transition from coder to company leader, and open-source commercialization.