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Lessons from Andrew Ross Sorkin

Andrew Ross Sorkin is a financial journalist, founder of The New York Times’s DealBook, and author of Too Big to Fail. He studies Wall Street’s machinery and personalities through market crises, interview tactics, and human psychology.
Profile 9 min read

Lessons from Meredith Kopit Levien

Meredith Kopit Levien is The New York Times Company’s president and CEO, who helped turn an advertising-dependent newspaper into a subscription-first digital business spanning news, games, cooking, sports, and shopping while defending human-led journalism’s durability amid AI.
Profile 10 min read

Lessons from Michael Lewis

Michael Lewis turns obscure systems into popular narratives, using works including Liar’s Poker, Moneyball, and The Big Short to clarify Wall Street, sports analytics, and behavioral psychology while probing writing, decision-making, and the biases shaping human behavior.
Profile 9 min read

Lessons from Ali Hamed

Ali Hamed is founder and CEO of Treville Capital Group (formerly CoVenture) and serves on Crossbeam Venture Partners' investment committee, investing across private credit and venture equity.
Profile 9 min read

Lessons from Rene Haas

Rene Haas is Arm’s CEO, shifting the company from basic chip-design licensing toward complete compute subsystems. He treats power efficiency as AI’s physical constraint, connecting custom silicon and computing economics to the limits facing data centers.
Profile 8 min read

Lessons from Steven Bartlett

Steven Bartlett founded marketing agency Social Chain and hosts The Diary of a CEO, reducing business strategy and personal development to direct rules about human behavior, rapid experimentation, company building, and the practical mechanics of success.
Profile 9 min read

Lessons from Saifedean Ammous

Saifedean Ammous is an Austrian economist and author of The Bitcoin Standard, framing Bitcoin within monetary history and arguing that fiat encourages debt and immediate consumption while hard money favors saving, capital accumulation, and longer horizons.
Profile 8 min read

Lessons from Ali Abdaal

Ali Abdaal is a former doctor who built a large YouTube following around practical study methods and evidence-based learning. His central idea—that productivity should arise from joy rather than rigid discipline—connects learning, content creation, energy, and burnout.

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