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Lessons from Ben Reinhardt

Ben Reinhardt, an engineer and researcher, founded Speculative Technologies to back materials and manufacturing work stranded between academia and venture capital, studying institutional bottlenecks and alternative funding models that can turn abstract concepts into physical tools.
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Lessons from Ben Lamm

Ben Lamm is CEO of Colossal Biosciences and a serial founder across AI, defense, and enterprise software, bringing an operator’s perspective to R&D-heavy companies, industrial machine learning, and financing synthetic biology for conservation at scale.
Profile 8 min read

Lessons from Ben Goodwin

Ben Goodwin left college, built a home fermentation lab, and co-founded Olipop, using classic soda flavors to deliver plant fiber and gut-friendly ingredients while learning how formulation, resilience, and recovery from early failures shape a beverage brand.
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Lessons from Ben Chestnut

Ben Chestnut co-founded Mailchimp and built it without venture capital before Intuit acquired the company in 2021; he stepped down as CEO in 2022. His experience offers lessons in product design, culture, and entrepreneurial resilience.
Profile 9 min read

Lessons from Ben Braverman

Ben Braverman built Flexport’s revenue organization from scratch, rejecting segmented sales roles for unified account management before co-founding Saga Ventures and distilling a tactical approach to hiring, enterprise software, and closing complex B2B deals at scale.
Profile 11 min read

Lessons from Becca Lindquist

Becca Lindquist is a software sales executive known for scaling go-to-market teams through operational playbooks that accelerate ramp-up, reward performance aggressively, and prioritize adaptability over static domain experience from early stages toward the $100M ARR milestone.
Profile 7 min read

Lessons from Aza Raskin

Aza Raskin, an interface designer, invented infinite scroll, then confronted how platforms used it to maximize engagement at users’ expense, leading him toward humane technology and sharper questions about digital addiction, AI risk, and respecting human limits.
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Lessons from Avi Goldfarb

Avi Goldfarb is a University of Toronto economist who reframes artificial intelligence as a measurable decline in prediction costs, clarifying how cheaper prediction reshapes human judgment, organizational design, market structure, and the tradeoffs surrounding data privacy.

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