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Xiao Hong, founder and CEO of Manus AI, brings pragmatic product focus to artificial intelligence. His vision moves beyond chatbots toward agents that act, pairing “less structure, more intelligence” with open-source collaboration and turning thought into execution.
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Yang Zhilin, founder and CEO of Moonshot AI, combines rigor with a long-term focus on AGI. His work on Transformer-XL and XLNet, followed by Kimi’s long-context capabilities, reflects a conviction that technological excellence should make AI more useful.
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Arthur Mensch, co-founder and CEO of Mistral, brings scientific rigor and a European perspective to artificial intelligence. Drawing on DeepMind experience, he advocates an open, competitive, and decentralized ecosystem in which open-source principles can shape AI’s future.
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Liang Wenfeng, founder of DeepSeek and co-founder of High-Flyer, moved from quantitative finance into AI. His strategy combines efficient open-source models, fundamental research, and young talent with a larger ambition: making China a contributor to global technological innovation.
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Nikhil Krishnan, founder of the Out of Pocket newsletter, uses humor, wit, and sharp analysis to demystify healthcare. His work makes the industry’s business accessible while preserving a clear-eyed view of the complexity and absurdity worth understanding.
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Gino Wickman, creator of the Entrepreneurial Operating System and author of Traction, turns business management into a practical operating discipline. His foundational lesson is that entrepreneurs gain traction only after establishing a clear vision for their businesses.
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Lessons from Brandon Chu

Brandon Chu, Shopify’s VP of Product and a voice in product management, shares mental models through The Black Box of Product Management. His work returns the craft to first principles that can guide product managers at every level.
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Joel Mokyr, an economic historian at Northwestern University, studies the historical roots of modern prosperity. His work asks how technology, knowledge, and culture interact across time to shape economic growth and the conditions that sustain it.

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