Profile 7 min read

Lessons from Kim Shannon

Kim Shannon, founder of Sionna Investment Managers and author of The Value Proposition, applies value-investing principles and an anthropological lens to market irrationality, offering a way to study psychology, navigate crises, and endure a male-dominated industry.
Profile 9 min read

Lessons from Jenny Wallace

Jennifer Breheny Wallace is a journalist examining how academic and social pressures shape families. Her idea of “mattering” offers parents and educators a practical response to toxic achievement culture by separating a child’s inherent worth from performance.
Profile 9 min read

Lessons from Elizabeth Lilly

Elizabeth Lilly, an author, illustrator, and animator, draws Geraldine and Let Me Fix You a Plate from her biracial Latina heritage and mobile childhood, showing how character design, pacing, and personal history can work together in visual storytelling.
Profile 12 min read

Lessons from David Marcus

David Marcus founded Zong before leading PayPal and Meta’s Messenger division, later co-created the failed Libra digital currency project, and now runs Lightspark. His career raises how builders scale consumer products amid corporate bureaucracy and global financial politics.
Profile 4 min read

Lessons from Anouk Dey

Anouk Dey, a Durable Capital Partners partner and Reclaim Childhood co-founder, combines experience analyzing small-cap growth stocks with operating sports camps for refugee girls in Jordan, illuminating how to evaluate equities and build sustainable organizations under resource constraints.
Profile 9 min read

Lessons from Anne-Sophie d'Andlau

Anne-Sophie d’Andlau, co-founder and Deputy CEO of CIAM, pairs shareholder engagement with structured philanthropy. Her work examines how investors can challenge European corporate boards, defend minority shareholders, demand strict governance, and embed charitable giving within a hedge fund model.
Profile 10 min read

Lessons from Amy Zhang

Amy X. Zhang, an associate professor at the University of Washington's Allen School and head of the Social Futures Lab, builds tools for community governance, moderation, and more democratic online spaces.
Profile 9 min read

Lessons from Samantha Greenberg

Samantha Greenberg, founder of Margate Capital Management after a career in catalyst-driven investing, later moved into technology finance leadership. Her path connects fundamental research and market-cycle judgment with capital allocation and the practical work of operating finance organizations.

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