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Daily Digest - 2026-07-28

A breakdown of how an autonomous agent escaped a sandbox and hacked a production system using a zero-day exploit. In a 4.
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Lessons from Stephen Starr

Despite having zero culinary background, Stephen Starr built a hugely profitable group of independent restaurants.
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Lessons from Tom Rinks

Tom Rinks went from a commission only furniture showroom to designing the Taco Bell chihuahua and co founding Sun Bum. He built a $400 million sunscreen brand by applying midwestern retail lessons to packaging and guerrilla marketing.
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Lessons from Clay Bavor

Clay Bavor spent 18 years at Google, where he led products ranging from Workspace to Google Labs, before leaving to co found the enterprise AI company Sierra.
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Lessons from Antonio Swad

Antonio Swad built Pizza Patrón and Wingstop by pairing stripped down menus with specific, underserved audiences. He tailored pizza directly to Hispanic neighborhoods and proved chicken wings could carry an entire menu instead of just serving as a bar snack.
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Lessons from Neil Chilson

Neil Chilson is a lawyer, computer scientist, and the Head of AI Policy at the Abundance Institute. Drawing on his time as the FTC's Chief Technologist, he approaches tech regulation by watching how complex systems actually react to top down rules.
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Lessons from Oliver Tuszik

Oliver Tuszik is Cisco’s Executive Vice President and Chief Sales Officer, with a career rooted in technology sales and channel strategy. He has pushed the company toward partner led managed services to ready enterprise infrastructure for AI and digital sovereignty.
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Lessons from Justin Gold

Justin Gold started making nut butters in his home food processor simply because the grocery store selection was too limited.

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