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Lessons from Neha Narkhede

Neha Narkhede co-created Apache Kafka and co-founded Confluent before founding Oscilar, connecting real-time data infrastructure to fraud detection and risk management while examining distributed systems, open-source scale, and the experience of building as a female founder.
Profile 10 min read

Lessons from Tristan Handy

Tristan Handy, founder and CEO of dbt Labs and creator of dbt, treated SQL data transformation like software development, establishing analytics engineering as a workflow and reshaping how data teams structure code, collaborate, and build communities.
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Lessons from Kevin Busque

Kevin Busque, co-founder of TaskRabbit and founder of Guideline, builds software to replace broken systems. His path from marketplace operator to retirement infrastructure offers a study in simplifying complex fees while building a sustainable financial business.
Profile 9 min read

Lessons from Jeff Shiner

Jeff Shiner helped guide 1Password from a small, bootstrapped consumer app into a major enterprise security platform. His experience examines how to scale a business, preserve culture and usability, and prepare for the shift toward passwordless security.
Profile 9 min read

Lessons from Immad Akhund

Immad Akhund, serial founder and CEO of Mercury, champions “minimum delightful products” and a low-pressure culture. Drawing on Heyzap and his angel investing, he offers practical thinking on founder psychology, hiring, and early-stage financial discipline.
Profile 9 min read

Lessons from Parag Agrawal

Parag Agrawal, a computer scientist and former Twitter CTO and CEO, started Project Bluesky to decentralize social media and now builds infrastructure for autonomous AI agents. His work probes scalable systems and AI’s potential to reshape web economics.
Profile 10 min read

Lessons from Zack Kanter

Zack Kanter, founder and CEO of Stedi, is rebuilding the infrastructure of B2B commerce. His thinking connects corporate strategy, the economics of automation, and Amazon’s “bounded search,” offering a sharp lens on how durable operating systems emerge.
Profile 10 min read

Lessons from Jyoti Bansal

Jyoti Bansal, a software engineer turned serial founder, built AppDynamics, Harness, and Traceable AI. His “Four Lists” roadmap and “startups within a startup” model illuminate how technical B2B companies can scale, organize teams, and navigate enterprise sales.

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