Profile 5 min read

Lessons from Chad Peets

Chad Peets, a recruiter and investor who built go-to-market teams for companies including Snowflake and Sigma Computing, brings a strict lens to hiring early-stage enterprise sales talent, compensation strategy, and the structure of effective teams.
Profile 8 min read

Lessons from Cem Kansu

Cem Kansu, Duolingo’s Chief Product Officer, helped scale the app through refined freemium mechanics, centralized quality control, and thousands of concurrent A/B tests, showing how retention, gamification, and subscriptions can grow without degrading the free experience.
Profile 11 min read

Lessons from Casey Handmer

Casey Handmer, a physicist, former NASA JPL scientist, and founder of Terraform Industries, argues that cheap solar power and SpaceX’s Starship could remove historic mass and energy constraints, reframing the possibilities for synthetic hydrocarbons and hardware engineering.
Profile 7 min read

Lessons from Caryn Seidman-Becker

Caryn Seidman-Becker bought CLEAR out of bankruptcy and rebuilt it as an identity platform, applying experience in hedge-fund risk and turnarounds to operating quickly, earning consumer trust, and expanding a single product into a broader platform.
Profile 10 min read

Lessons from Caryn Marooney

Caryn Marooney, a Coatue General Partner and former Facebook communications leader, created the RIBS and SWIM frameworks to help startups sharpen messaging, navigate complex transitions, support enterprise scaling, and make clear cases for AI infrastructure.
Profile 6 min read

Lessons from Carles Reina

Carles Reina, a London-based go-to-market executive and VP of Revenue at ElevenLabs, applies a demanding “20x quota” model to building high-performance sales teams, taking AI products into enterprise markets, and evaluating early-stage founders through Baobab Ventures.
Profile 10 min read

Lessons from Carl Rivera

Carl Rivera, a product designer who co-founded Tictail before leading design and consumer product work at Shopify and becoming Nubank’s Chief Product Officer, examines how marketplaces, design teams, and product development must adapt to artificial intelligence.
Profile 7 min read

Lessons from Cameron Deatsch

Cameron Deatsch spent over a decade at Atlassian, ultimately serving as Chief Revenue Officer while a strict product-led growth model kept sales friction and marketing costs unusually low, offering lessons in ecosystems, enterprise scale, and unstructured careers.

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