Profile 13 min read

Lessons from Howard Marks

Howard Marks, co-founder of Oaktree Capital Management, is a value investor distinguished by his attention to risk, market cycles, and crowd psychology, offering a disciplined way to navigate the financial market’s recurring emotional extremes.
Profile 7 min read

Lessons from Bill Ackman

Bill Ackman, founder and CEO of Pershing Square Capital Management, is an activist investor known for high-conviction bets and corporate change, with major wins and public battles sharpening his pursuit of businesses built for exceptional durability.
Profile 5 min read

Lessons from Stewart Butterfield

Stewart Butterfield, the Canadian entrepreneur behind Flickr and Slack, applies a background in philosophy to communication, collaboration, and software at scale, grounding his work in empathy, craftsmanship, and technology’s capacity to augment human potential.
Profile 6 min read

Lessons from Drew Houston

Drew Houston, co-founder and CEO of Dropbox, turned a personal frustration into a global cloud-storage utility, pairing continuous learning and “healthy paranoia” with a practical framework for entrepreneurship, product design, personal growth, and life’s finite days.
Profile 5 min read

Lessons from Melanie Perkins

Melanie Perkins, co-founder and CEO of Canva, moved from teaching design in Perth to building a global platform, demonstrating how persistence, visionary thinking, and sustained attention to meaningful problems can turn an ambitious idea into widely used technology.
Digest 6 min read

Daily Digest — 2026-03-28

AI autonomy is advancing through both larger models and better operating infrastructure, but real-world agency depends on scarce compute, trained tool orchestration, and payment systems that unite identity, authorization, and settlement rather than merely adding another wallet.
Profile 5 min read

Lessons from Jessica Fain

Jessica Fain, a product leader at Webflow and former chief of staff to Slack’s CPO, studies the art of influence, arguing that this deeply human capacity becomes even more consequential in high-stakes organizations shaped by AI.
Profile 10 min read

Lessons from Mitchell Green

Mitchell Green, founder and managing partner of Lead Edge Capital, applies a “Moneyball” approach to growth equity, using an extensive operator-LP network to uncover undervalued companies beyond the venture capital industry’s traditional geographic centers.

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