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.
Profile 6 min read

Lessons from Alan Waxman

Alan Waxman co-founded and leads Sixth Street with a flexible, “go-anywhere” investment mandate, challenging private credit’s asset-gathering “factory model” while examining structural risk, sports investing, and how unconstrained teams can be built and sustained.
Profile 7 min read

Lessons from Alex Behring

Alex Behring is 3G Capital’s co-founder and co-managing partner, directing strategy and operations behind major acquisitions through extreme operational immersion, a concentrated “one investment per fund” model, and rigorous approaches to management, talent, and capital.
Profile 9 min read

Lessons from Sridhar Ramaswamy

Sridhar Ramaswamy led Google’s advertising business through massive growth, co-founded Neeva, an ad-free subscription search engine, and serves as Snowflake’s CEO. His experience exposes ad-supported products’ hidden costs, engineering scale, and the operational intensity of enterprise AI.
Profile 7 min read

Lessons from Jared Kushner

Jared Kushner is an American investor, real estate developer, and former senior advisor to President Donald Trump, known for brokering the Abraham Accords and applying private-sector management tactics to diplomacy, federal bureaucracy, business, and crisis management.
Profile 8 min read

Lessons from Dan Loeb

Daniel S. Loeb founded Third Point around event-driven value investing and forceful shareholder activism, becoming known for letters demanding management change or capital reallocation. His perspective joins market cycles, corporate governance, and institutional investing psychology.
Profile 11 min read

Lessons from Ari Emanuel

Ari Emanuel leads Endeavor and TKO Group Holdings, pairing talent representation with owned sports properties such as the UFC. His operating thesis links aggressive negotiation, live events’ scarcity amid infinite AI content, dealmaking, failure, and market change.
Profile 7 min read

Lessons from Frank Blake

Frank Blake led The Home Depot’s turnaround as CEO by refocusing the business on store associates and customers. His “inverted pyramid” model and rule that leaders get what they celebrate place frontline workers at strategy’s center.

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