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Lessons from Ian Murray

Ian Murray and his brother Shep walked away from corporate desk jobs in 1998 to start Vineyard Vines, initially funding a necktie business entirely through credit card debt.
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How AI is killing lightweight SaaS, forcing founders to build businesses around friction instead of code. The market for simple $20/month SaaS tools is dying.
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Lessons from Mike Katz

Over 28 years at T Mobile, Mike Katz rose from the retail floor to Chief Business and Product Officer.
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Lessons from Reiner Pope

Reiner Pope is the co founder and CEO of MatX and a former architect on Google's TPU team. He designs custom silicon to make large language models more efficient by working directly with physical hardware constraints.
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Lessons from Alex Tabarrok

Alex Tabarrok is an economics professor at George Mason University and co founder of the blog Marginal Revolution. He studies innovation, public goods, and the regulatory roadblocks affecting healthcare and technology.
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Lessons from Shensi Ding

Shensi Ding is the co founder and CEO of Merge, a unified API platform that replaces the difficult, expensive work of building one off software integrations.
Profile 4 min read

Lessons from McKeel Hagerty

After studying philosophy and theology, McKeel Hagerty returned to the automotive world to turn his family's small wooden boat insurance agency into a massive international club for car enthusiasts.
Profile 7 min read

Lessons from Lloyd Blankfein

Lloyd Blankfein ran Goldman Sachs from 2006 to 2018, steering the bank through the 2008 financial crisis and its heavily scrutinized aftermath.

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