Profile 4 min read

Lessons from Eric Stromberg

Eric Stromberg, an entrepreneur and investor, explores how founders can identify overlooked market opportunities, build companies with staying power, and read the subtleties of product-market fit—the decisive alignment between an idea and genuine demand.
Profile 5 min read

Lessons from Johan Brenner

Johan Brenner, a General Partner at Creandum and experienced entrepreneur and investor, brings a distinctly European perspective to venture capital, examining how investment philosophy and strategy are sharpened by experience on both sides of company building.
Profile 9 min read

Lessons from Karl Moore

Karl Moore, a McGill University management professor, studies leadership, strategy, and changing workplace dynamics, with particular attention to personality types, ambivert leadership, and the practical challenge of managing productively across generations in modern organizations.
Profile 6 min read

Lessons from Brian Norgard

Brian Norgard, Tinder’s former Chief Product Officer and an angel investor, treats simplicity as a demanding product discipline: focus on one essential job, execute it exceptionally well, and make the resulting experience immediately easy to use.
Profile 7 min read

Lessons from Sarah Guo

Sarah Guo, founder of Conviction and a former General Partner at Greylock, brings an investor’s vantage point to artificial intelligence, company building, and technological change, asking how firms should navigate AI as a defining new frontier.
Profile 11 min read

Lessons from David Sinclair

David Sinclair, a Harvard Medical School genetics professor, advances the Information Theory of Aging: the process may stem less from damaged DNA than from lost epigenetic instructions that govern how cells interpret the genome.
Profile 7 min read

Lessons from Ben Thompson

Ben Thompson, author of Stratechery, explains digital strategy through Aggregation Theory: internet-era businesses can win by controlling demand rather than scarce supply, reframing how power, distribution, and competitive advantage operate in technology markets today.
Profile 7 min read

Lessons from John Gruber

John Gruber, author and publisher of Daring Fireball, connects technology criticism, product design, and exacting standards through an Auteur Theory of Design, arguing for the creative force of a singular vision behind great products.

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