Profile 8 min read

Lessons from Amy Howe

Amy Howe moved from McKinsey partner to senior leadership at Ticketmaster and FanDuel, building experience scaling consumer technology companies in fast, heavily regulated markets and sharpening practical lessons on rapid growth, protected thinking time, and capable teams.
Profile 8 min read

Lessons from Amit Bendov

Amit Bendov, Gong’s co-founder and CEO, built revenue intelligence around actual customer interactions rather than subjective CRM entries, exposing how specialized AI can improve decisions while yielding broader lessons on startup scale and discovering what buyers truly want.
Profile 6 min read

Lessons from Amelia LeRutte

Amelia LeRutte, SaaStr’s Chief AI Officer, runs more than twenty AI agents in production and emphasizes the unglamorous discipline behind a functioning agent stack, making daily maintenance—not theoretical hype—the operating principle most worth close study.
Profile 11 min read

Lessons from Alice Bentinck

Alice Bentinck is the CEO and co-founder of Entrepreneur First, which funds people before they have teams or ideas. She also co-founded Code First Girls and studies how founder potential can be cultivated.
Profile 8 min read

Lessons from Alfred Nobel

Alfred Nobel, a Swedish chemist, built a global manufacturing empire around dynamite, then directed his fortune toward prizes for science, literature, and peace after confronting its use in warfare, leaving enduring questions about invention, deterrence, and responsibility.
Profile 10 min read

Lessons from Alex Wiltschko

Alex Wiltschko, a neuroscientist, founded Osmo to build the hardware and software for digitizing smell, extending work on an AI model that predicts odor perception from molecular structure toward questions spanning olfaction, graph neural networks, chemistry, and disease detection.
Profile 8 min read

Lessons from Alex Karp

Alex Karp, Palantir Technologies co-founder and CEO, brings social theory into debates over software’s strategic role, arguing that technology companies have a moral duty to support national defense and examining geopolitical deterrence and Silicon Valley’s ideological climate.
Profile 9 min read

Lessons from Alex Embiricos

Alexander Embiricos leads development of OpenAI’s coding tools as Head of Codex, after co-founding the remote-engineering virtual office Multi, and offers a grounded perspective on software development, autonomous agents, and the boundaries of human-computer interaction.

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