Profile 6 min read

Lessons from Eiso Kant

Eiso Kant, builder of source{d}, Athenian, and Poolside, treats software development as a path to artificial general intelligence while giving engineering leaders concrete models for reinforcement learning, actionable team data, and daily high-functioning operations.
Profile 4 min read

Lessons from Douglas Chen

Douglas Chen co-founded Exafunction and Codeium, later Windsurf. His work connects efficient AI infrastructure, context-aware coding tools, rigorous evaluation, and a pivot toward an agentic IDE.
Profile 6 min read

Lessons from Daniel Gross

Daniel Gross, software engineer and investor, co-founded Cue, directed machine learning projects at Apple, served as a Y Combinator partner, and co-authored Talent. His frameworks connect interviewing and human-capital judgment with practical baselines for building software and teams.
Profile 8 min read

Lessons from Calvin French-Owen

Calvin French-Owen, co-founder and former CTO of Segment, documents the engineering judgment behind early validation, architectural scale, and leadership transitions, including Segment’s debated retreat from microservices and his subsequent work building Codex at OpenAI.
Profile 10 min read

Lessons from Brett Adcock

Brett Adcock, founder of Vettery, Archer, and Figure, argues that physics can make hardware more tractable than software and that massive problems attract elite talent, linking those convictions to deep-tech scale, capital, and an automated physical economy.
Profile 13 min read

Lessons from Aravind Srinivas

Aravind Srinivas, co-founder and CEO of Perplexity AI, combines reinforcement-learning experience at DeepMind and OpenAI with a focus on answer engines, examining execution speed, model limitations, human curiosity, and the mechanics of discovering knowledge.
Profile 5 min read

Lessons from Andy Konwinski

Andy Konwinski, co-founder of Databricks and Perplexity AI and contributor to Apache Spark and Mesos, studies how academic research becomes commercial software while open-source development, product strategy, and geopolitics shape the future of AI.
Profile 7 min read

Lessons from Aman Sanger

Aman Sanger co-founded Anysphere, maker of the AI code editor Cursor, whose project-wide context enables logic generation and edits across files. His operating challenge joins low-latency infrastructure with rapid startup iteration as software creation changes.

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