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Lessons from Snir Kodesh

Snir Kodesh is an engineering executive and founder whose career spans Hitch, Lyft, Retool, and Petual, combining practical frameworks for scaling software organizations and planning development with technical analysis of multi-factor authentication flaws.
Profile 9 min read

Lessons from Sidharth Kakkar

Sidharth Kakkar built Freckle and later launched Subscript, running companies through a strict zero-meeting, asynchronous culture where written documentation replaces calendar syncs and autonomy supports product iteration, hiring, and the demands of early-stage growth.
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Lessons from Shannon Brayton

Shannon Brayton spent two decades leading communications before becoming Bessemer Venture Partners’ first CMO, guided by the practical belief that good PR often means quietly killing bad stories rather than chasing vanity headlines, especially through media volatility and transitions.
Profile 8 min read

Lessons from Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins

Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins moved from labor organizing, anti-poverty coalitions, and negotiating for Prince into technology as a co-founder of Promise, showing how reducing administrative friction in public utility debt collection can coexist with respect for financially distressed people.
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Lessons from Oliver Jay

Oliver Jay was Asana’s first Chief Revenue Officer and led Dropbox’s international expansion during rapid growth, later helping product-led SaaS companies build enterprise sales and global teams while diagnosing failures in hiring, upmarket strategy, and go-to-market execution.
Profile 9 min read

Lessons from Max Rhodes

Max Rhodes is the co-founder and CEO of Faire, an online wholesale marketplace built to reduce the inventory risk discouraging small retailers from testing new products, with broader lessons on early startup stress, decentralized decisions, and B2B commerce.
Profile 9 min read

Lessons from Matt Lerner

Matt Lerner led growth at PayPal and served as a partner at 500 Startups before founding SYSTM, focusing on the specific constraints that block startup scale and the customer discovery, language-market fit, and few high-leverage actions behind non-linear growth.
Profile 9 min read

Lessons from Kyle Parrish

Kyle Parrish was Figma’s first sales hire and VP of Sales, building its enterprise engine by layering top-down sales discipline over bottom-up product adoption and enforcing a no-discount policy to protect value while scaling hiring, pricing, and operations.

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