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Lessons from Alex Mashrabov

Alex Mashrabov is a former competitive programmer who built the generative AI infrastructure behind Snapchat’s face filters. He later founded Higgsfield AI to make cinematic video generation cheaper for social media marketers.

Lessons from Axel Backlund

As co founder and CTO of Andon Labs, Axel Backlund tests how autonomous AI agents handle actual business operations. His "Vending Bench" retail experiments showed that language models often fail catastrophically when forced to manage money and people over extended periods.

Lessons from Joseph Krause

Joseph Krause is the co founder and CEO of Radical AI, a company focused on accelerating materials science by combining artificial intelligence with autonomous, self driving laboratories.

Lessons from Mario Harik

Mario Harik oversees 40,000 employees as the CEO of XPO, one of the world's largest logistics providers. He originally joined in 2011 as the company's first Chief Information Officer, advancing by bringing software engineering and strict operational discipline to the trucking industry.

Lessons from Wade Davis

Anthropologist and ethnobotanist Wade Davis has spent his career documenting indigenous cultures and the natural world. He is best known for the concept of the ethnosphere, arguing that human cultural diversity is just as fragile and important as biological diversity.

Lessons from Maxim Bar Kogan

As CEO of Onyx Security, Maxim Bar Kogan is building infrastructure to govern autonomous AI agents in the enterprise. Drawing on his background in military intelligence and offensive cyber operations, he argues that traditional security tools fail against unpredictable AI systems.

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