Profile 12 min read

Lessons from David Vélez

David Vélez founded Nubank after struggling to open a bank account in Brazil. His background in venture capital and company building informs a playbook for challenging entrenched monopolies, earning trust, evaluating talent, and protecting culture while scaling.
Profile 7 min read

Lessons from David Packard

David Packard co-founded Hewlett-Packard and helped define early Silicon Valley culture through The HP Way. His framework made employee autonomy, decentralized decisions, and corporate responsibility central to building organizations, leadership, and service to society.
Profile 8 min read

Lessons from David Ko

David Ko is a consumer software and digital health executive who popularized the “mental battery” framework for workplace well-being. His experience highlights mindful leadership, management by subtraction, and the difficult realities of scaling health technologies.
Profile 9 min read

Lessons from David Chang

David Chang is a chef who brought fine-dining rigor to everyday dishes at Momofuku Noodle Bar, challenging conventional ideas about American and immigrant cuisine. His candid perspective examines creativity, failure, and the psychological toll of restaurant work.
Profile 13 min read

Lessons from David Cancel

David Cancel is a serial founder and former HubSpot product chief who popularized conversational marketing. His argument that B2B software competes through customer experience, not feature lists, anchors frameworks for products, business scale, and team leadership.
Profile 10 min read

Lessons from David Cahn

David Cahn is a Sequoia Capital partner focused on AI infrastructure, enterprise software, and defense technology. His analysis probes the gap between vast AI capital spending and end-user revenue, clarifying infrastructure dynamics and the demands of startup growth.
Profile 8 min read

Lessons from Dave Yuan

Dave Yuan founded Tidemark after fifteen years as a general partner at TCV. His mapping of control points and multi-product sequencing explains how vertical software companies scale, offering a disciplined approach to investing, market analysis, and product expansion.
Profile 7 min read

Lessons from Daron Acemoglu

Daron Acemoglu is an MIT economist studying why political systems make nations prosperous or poor. He argues that institutions outweigh geography and culture, extending that lens to state power, automation, inequality, and the human choices shaping technological change.

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