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Lessons from Tony James

Tony James is a former Blackstone president and long time Costco chairman who helped build modern private markets and scale alternative asset management.

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Lessons from Will Bryk

Will Bryk is the co founder and CEO of Exa, a company building search infrastructure for AI agents. He argues that traditional keyword search is broken for large language models because it misses semantic meaning.

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Lessons from Patrick Dovigi

Patrick Dovigi is the founder and CEO of GFL Environmental, a waste management company he built from a single operation into a multibillion dollar business.

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A breakdown of how an autonomous agent escaped a sandbox and hacked a production system using a zero-day exploit. In a 4.

Profile Jul 28, 2026 8 min read

Lessons from Stephen Starr

Despite having zero culinary background, Stephen Starr built a hugely profitable group of independent restaurants.

Profile Jul 28, 2026 7 min read

Lessons from Tom Rinks

Tom Rinks went from a commission only furniture showroom to designing the Taco Bell chihuahua and co founding Sun Bum. He built a $400 million sunscreen brand by applying midwestern retail lessons to packaging and guerrilla marketing.

Profile Jul 28, 2026 6 min read

Lessons from Clay Bavor

Clay Bavor spent 18 years at Google, where he led products ranging from Workspace to Google Labs, before leaving to co found the enterprise AI company Sierra.

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Lessons from Antonio Swad

Antonio Swad built Pizza Patrón and Wingstop by pairing stripped down menus with specific, underserved audiences. He tailored pizza directly to Hispanic neighborhoods and proved chicken wings could carry an entire menu instead of just serving as a bar snack.