Profile 7 min read

Lessons from Verne Harnish

Verne Harnish, an entrepreneur and author of Scaling Up and Mastering the Rockefeller Habits, treats people as a core scaling decision: assemble the right team, then create conditions in which its members remain happy, engaged, and effective.
Profile 7 min read

Lessons from Dan Rasmussen

Dan Rasmussen, founder of Verdad Advisers, brings data, history, and contrarian judgment to investing, pairing quantitative analysis with awareness of behavioral bias and intellectual humility across value investing, crisis investing, private equity, and broader market decisions.
Profile 9 min read

Lessons from Kyle Bass

Kyle Bass, founder and Chief Investment Officer of Hayman Capital Management, combines macroeconomic research, geopolitical analysis, and concentrated conviction in contrarian investing, exemplified by his successful anticipation of the subprime mortgage crisis and willingness to act.
Profile 13 min read

Lessons from Paul Singer

Paul Singer, founder of Elliott Management, treats risk management and humility as inseparable disciplines, drawing on early losses to respect market unpredictability while navigating distressed investments, activist campaigns, and the complexities of global finance.
Profile 10 min read

Lessons from Mark Leonard

Mark Leonard, founder and chairman of Constellation Software, applies a decentralized, people-centered, long-term philosophy to vertical market software, favoring the discipline of a “perpetual owner” over the conventional cycle of acquiring and quickly flipping businesses.
Profile 7 min read

Lessons from Linus Lee

Linus Lee, a research engineer, programmer, and writer, explores artificial intelligence, human-computer interaction, and tools for thought, asking how new software interfaces can augment human creativity, agency, language, and knowledge work in daily practice.
Profile 7 min read

Lessons from Tom Siebel

Tom Siebel’s focus on digital transformation and technology centers a consequential strategic question: how should organizations translate technological change into genuine operational transformation, rather than treating new tools as an end detached from broader business purpose?
Profile 11 min read

Lessons from Wang Ning

Wang Ning, founder and CEO of POP MART, combines art, commerce, and consumer psychology in the blind-box business, showing how characters such as Labubu and Molly helped turn a niche toy category into a global phenomenon.

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