Profile 6 min read

Lessons from Harrison Chase

Harrison Chase, co-founder and CEO of LangChain, develops frameworks for applications powered by large language models, helping developers move from prototypes to production by thinking more carefully about context engineering, orchestration, and agentic workflows.
Profile 6 min read

Lessons from Amjad Masad

Amjad Masad, co-founder and CEO of Replit, pursues universally accessible programming, connecting the rise of AI agents with software democratization and arguing for a builder’s mindset as technical creation becomes available to more people.
Profile 8 min read

Lessons from Bucky Moore

Bucky Moore, a partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners and formerly Kleiner Perkins, invests in early-stage artificial intelligence, infrastructure, and cybersecurity, examining the transition from cloud-native systems to a new generation of AI-native software companies.
Profile 9 min read

Lessons from Stevie Case

Stevana “Stevie” Case, a technology executive and pioneering professional gamer, brings experience from competitive Quake, Twilio, and automated compliance to revenue leadership at Vanta, connecting performance under pressure with the work of scaling organizations.
Profile 4 min read

Lessons from Ankur Goyal

Ankur Goyal, Founder and CEO of Braintrust, connects his infrastructure work at MemSQL and Impira with AI leadership at Figma, emphasizing craftsmanship, rigorous evaluation, and solving the bottlenecks that keep technical products from production-grade quality.
Profile 5 min read

Lessons from Jasmine Sun

Jasmine Sun, a writer, researcher, and technologist, connects technology’s creators with the societies they affect, using an “anthropology of disruption” to argue for a future shaped by more humanistic, progressive, and equitable technological choices.
Profile 9 min read

Lessons from William S. Lind

William S. Lind, a military theorist and cultural critic, connects Fourth Generation Warfare and traditionalist conservatism, linking non-state conflict, Prussian military excellence, Retroculture, and asking what their combination means for the preservation of Western civilization.
Profile 8 min read

Lessons from carl eschenbach

Carl Eschenbach, CEO of Workday and a former Sequoia Capital general partner, draws on experience scaling VMware to unite blue-collar work ethic with go-to-market discipline, emphasizing simplicity and human-centered values as foundations for technical scale.

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