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Regina Gerbeaux, an executive coach grounded in psychology and organizational behavior, sees a founder’s greatest leverage inside the self. Her approach centers on clearing emotional triggers, cultivating radical self-awareness, and building conscious leadership from the inside out.
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Ilya Sutskever, a co-founder and former Chief Scientist of OpenAI, helped propel modern artificial intelligence through deep conviction in neural networks and scaling. His trajectory from AlexNet, AlphaGo, and GPT to Safe Superintelligence centers intelligence’s future and safety.
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Clara Ma, through Ask a Chief of Staff, clarifies a strategic role often misunderstood. Drawing on experience at startups including Hugging Face, she shows how operational excellence and career judgment create an effective organizational force multiplier.
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Mira Murati, a pivotal figure in artificial intelligence, has advanced a human-centric and responsible approach through OpenAI and Thinking Machines Lab. Her perspective keeps AI’s transformative potential tied to the question of how technology should serve society.
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Jack Clark, co-founder of Anthropic and author of Import AI, connects journalism, policy, and AI research. His perspective examines the promise and risks of systems, including the technical and political work required to make them safe and reliable.
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Lessons from Morris Chang of TSMC

Dr. Morris Chang, founder of TSMC, revolutionized semiconductor manufacturing with the pure-play foundry model, enabling fabless chip design. His strategic lesson is to see when an industry needs a new structure, then execute relentlessly enough to build it.
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