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Michele Ferrero transformed an Italian family pastry shop into the business behind Nutella, Kinder, Tic Tac, and Ferrero Rocher, guided by disciplined, people-centered management and product decisions framed around an imaginary buyer named Valeria.
Michael Miebach, Mastercard’s CEO, is broadening the company beyond card networks into a digital platform, treating financial inclusion, cybersecurity, and technologies such as agentic AI as foundations of business resilience and disciplined technological change.
Micha Kaufman, Fiverr’s co-founder and CEO, turned digital services into e-commerce products. His perspective joins blunt lessons on two-sided marketplaces and startup execution with urgent questions about AI, work, and scaling a global platform.
Meron Colbeci, Checkout.com’s Chief Product Officer, draws on roles across PayPal, SoFi, and Meta’s Novi to explain the practical mechanics of global financial infrastructure, sustainable fintech products, digital-asset settlement, and preparation for agentic commerce.
Mellody Hobson, Co-CEO and President of Ariel Investments and former Starbucks board chair, champions “active patience” in investing and “color brave” corporate leadership, linking financial independence, board stewardship, sound market judgment, and personal resilience.
Maya Shankar, a cognitive scientist and former White House advisor, uses behavioral science to study disruption: how people make decisions when plans collapse, preserve or redefine identity, and discover renewed purpose through unexpected change.
Max Junestrand, Legora’s co-founder and CEO, entered legal technology without a legal background and interviewed hundreds of lawyers, turning workflow friction into lessons on rapid iteration, hiring for grit, and building tools teams adopt.
Max Altman, a venture capitalist who co-founded Saga Ventures and Apollo Projects, urges technology companies to replace vague missions with execution and growth, grounding his perspective in seed-investing mechanics, founder psychology, and startup momentum.