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Matt Clancy, an economist studying innovation and science policy, uses New Things Under the Sun to examine how ideas form, why progress grows harder, how science gets funded, and how AI and remote work reshape invention.
Matan Grinberg, Factory’s co-founder and CEO, brings a decade of string theory and quantum physics research to autonomous software engineering, questioning the enterprise “token hangover” and moving teams from AI copilots toward fully autonomous workflows.
Maryam Banikarim, a marketing leader across Hyatt, Gannett, Univision, and Nextdoor, treats brand purpose as an operating mandate rather than a slogan, applying the same pragmatism to corporate turnarounds, career setbacks, NYCNext, and The Longest Table.
Martín Escobari, General Atlantic Co-President and Submarino co-founder, applies lessons from Bolivian hyperinflation to growth investing, emphasizing strict unit economics, structural resilience, founder psychology, and decisive action when economic downturns test otherwise durable businesses.
Martin Mignot, an Index Ventures partner and “Not Optional” campaigner, studies how founders manage growth and transatlantic expansion, drawing practical connections among valuation discipline, hiring, stock-option reform, and the realities of building global software and logistics companies.
Mark Velthuis, founder of blankKANVAS and a go-to-market operator, specializes in connecting self-serve product adoption with enterprise sales across Asia-Pacific, offering methods for structuring revenue teams, managing channel partnerships, and expanding internationally with discipline.
Mark Blyth, a Brown University political economist, studies how economic ideas dictate political reality, tracing austerity’s failures and the global market shifts that fuel public anger to explain why standard economic playbooks repeatedly fail ordinary people.
Mark Bertolini, who led Aetna and Bridgewater Associates before Oscar Health, links leadership to lived experience: surviving severe injury, managing chronic pain, improving workplace pay and well-being, and confronting how limited time should shape healthcare decisions.