Profile 8 min read

Lessons from Daphne Koller

Daphne Koller co-founded Coursera and wrote a standard textbook on probabilistic graphical models. At Insitro, she applies machine learning to biological data, seeking better maps of human disease and faster paths through drug discovery.
Profile 10 min read

Lessons from Meg Whitman

Meg Whitman scaled eBay into a global standard and later managed Hewlett-Packard’s vast split. Her methods combine trust in people with disciplined consumer marketing, offering a study in rapid growth, legacy-company stabilization, and transitions into international diplomacy.
Profile 5 min read

Lessons from Anne Wojcicki

Anne Wojcicki founded 23andMe to shift medicine from reactive treatment toward maintaining health. Her direct-to-consumer genetic testing model raises consequential questions about patient agency, control of health data, research scale, and distorted incentives across healthcare.
Profile 8 min read

Lessons from Sheryl Sandberg

Sheryl Sandberg spent fourteen years as Meta’s COO, helping scale a startup into a global platform. Through Lean In and Option B, she examined barriers facing women in leadership and the demanding work of resilience after grief.
Profile 7 min read

Lessons from Marissa Mayer

Marissa Mayer joined Google as its twentieth employee and later led Yahoo. Her exacting interface standards and insistence on data over intuition reveal a management philosophy built around rigorous organizational discipline at the scale of global platforms.
Profile 8 min read

Lessons from Susan Wojcicki

Susan Wojcicki joined Google as employee sixteen, built AdSense, advocated for the YouTube acquisition, and led the platform for nine years. Her career offers practical judgment on product evaluation, moderation tradeoffs, and endurance through technological change.
Profile 9 min read

Lessons from Joanna Hoffman

Joanna Hoffman, the fifth Apple Macintosh team member, wrote its first business plan and helped shape its interface guidelines. Her uncompromising pragmatism tests technological ambition against market reality and challenges destructive social-media business models.
Profile 8 min read

Lessons from Michael Moritz

Michael Moritz moved from Time reporter to longtime Sequoia Capital investor, bringing a journalist’s curiosity to early technology companies. His perspective connects extreme patience, difficult-founder psychology, and the outsider’s enduring advantage in recognizing unusual potential.

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