Profile 5 min read

Lessons from Yang Zhilin of Moonshot AI

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.
Profile 4 min read

Lessons from Arthur Mensch

Arthur Mensch is co-founder and CEO of Mistral AI. A former Google DeepMind researcher and École Polytechnique alumnus, he leads a French AI company building frontier models, developer tools, applications, and compute.
Profile 7 min read

Lessons from Liang Wenfeng of Deep Seek

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.
Profile 6 min read

Lessons from Nikhil Krishnan

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.
Profile 6 min read

Lessons from Gino Wickman

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.
Profile 6 min read

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.
Profile 9 min read

Lessons from Joel Mokyr

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.
Profile 4 min read

Lessons from John Risley

John Risley, co-founder of Clearwater Fine Foods, is a Canadian entrepreneur whose path began with a small Nova Scotia lobster shop. His expansion into global seafood and varied investments offers a study in risk-taking, vision, and strategic growth.

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