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Lessons from Royce Yudkoff

Royce Yudkoff is a Harvard Business School professor of management practice and ABRY Partners co-founder who champions entrepreneurship through acquisition, teaching individuals to evaluate, finance, buy, and manage profitable small businesses instead of launching startups.
Profile 8 min read

Lessons from Packy McCormick

Packy McCormick founded Not Boring, combining a newsletter and venture fund in a media-venture flywheel. He frames the internet as “The Great Online Game” while connecting optimism, online writing, vertical integration, and renewed investment in physical technology.
Profile 7 min read

Lessons from Josh Kushner

Josh Kushner founded Thrive Capital to operate more like a company for founders than a conventional venture fund, using concentrated early bets and lasting partnerships while examining capital allocation and the limits of artificial intelligence.
Profile 9 min read

Lessons from Anu Hariharan

Anu Hariharan is an investor and Avra founder who translates network effects, demand-side scale, and unit economics into clear frameworks for founders sequencing pricing, hiring, and scaling from early product-market fit through late-stage growth.
Profile 8 min read

Lessons from Kat Cole

Kat Cole rose from teenage Hooters hostess to President of Cinnabon and CEO of AG1, pairing operational discipline with the “Hot Shot Rule,” which counters complacency by viewing your job through a high-performing replacement’s eyes.
Profile 12 min read

Lessons from Brad Jacobs

Brad Jacobs is a serial entrepreneur who built large companies by consolidating regional businesses in waste management, equipment rental, and logistics. His M&A playbook centers on capital allocation, standardized operations, technology adoption, integration, and scalable hiring.
Profile 8 min read

Lessons from David George

David George is an Andreessen Horowitz General Partner leading its Growth fund, mapping the expansion of modern AI companies and technology value’s migration from public to private markets while studying infrastructure constraints and outlier growth.
Profile 9 min read

Lessons from Luca Ferrari

Luca Ferrari is Bending Spoons’ co-founder and CEO, operating consumer software like private equity by acquiring apps such as Evernote and Meetup, rebuilding them on a centralized platform, and emphasizing talent density, restructuring, and portfolio mathematics.

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