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Lessons from Nadia Singer

Nadia Singer, Figma’s Chief People Officer and a former talent leader at Quora, Facebook, and Google, replaces gut-feel hiring with structured evidence across interviews, reference checks, and the challenge of scaling culture through rapid growth.
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Lessons from Ryan Lucas

Ryan Lucas is the shared name of an NPR Justice correspondent, a utility-line-worker podcast host, and a post-Cold War Europe photojournalist, inviting comparison of how three professionals approach the practical mechanics of very different jobs.
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Lessons from Jeremy Epling

Jeremy Epling led product at Microsoft, GitHub, and Vanta, developing an operating approach built on empowered individual contributors, fast shipping cycles, clearer decisions, and durable software trust as agentic AI moves into the enterprise.
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Lessons from Adit Abraham

Adit Abraham, co-founder and CEO of Reducto, builds infrastructure that extracts structured data from PDFs and spreadsheets, drawing on product management and machine learning experience to examine capital efficiency, engineering focus, and founder-led sales.
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Lessons from Adam Guild

Adam Guild dropped out of high school to build software and co-founded Owner.com for independent restaurants, pairing brute-force outbound sales with rapid product pivots, local marketing, and rigorous personal discipline to navigate the daily grind of high-growth company building.
Profile 9 min read

Lessons from Waseem Daher

Waseem Daher, a three-time founder and CEO of Pilot, draws on building Ksplice, Zulip, and startup back-office finance infrastructure to explain the tactical mechanics of early-stage company building through direct, firsthand experience.
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Lessons from Marco Zappacosta

Marco Zappacosta co-founded Thumbtack after college and helped turn the difficult local-services market into a multibillion-dollar business, with marketplace liquidity, instant matching, and a virtual-first operating model defining his approach to product and organization.
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Lessons from Laura Behrens Wu

Laura Behrens Wu co-founded Shippo to simplify fragmented e-commerce shipping through an API, championing practical “painkiller” products and an unscripted founder identity while confronting product-market fit and the daily grind of scaling a company.

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