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Lessons from Tracy Young

Tracy Young, a software engineer who co-founded PlanGrid and now leads TigerEye, explains how founders find product-market fit, scale founder-led sales, and manage the emotional weight of building a company through periods of rapid growth.
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Lessons from Tope Awotona

Tope Awotona, founder of Calendly, turned a career in enterprise sales, failed e-commerce experiments, and his own savings into a scheduling tool, revealing how disciplined idea testing, deliberate growth, and stubborn persistence can build a lasting business.
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Lessons from Tony Spring

Tony Spring, a longtime Bloomingdale’s operator who became CEO of Macy’s, Inc., defends traditional department stores through better merchandise and sharper in-store experiences, offering a grounded study in retail operations, leadership, and corporate turnarounds.
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Lessons from Tomasz Tunguz

Tomasz Tunguz, a venture capitalist and Theory Ventures founder, uses quantitative research to set software startup benchmarks for recurring revenue, churn, and data infrastructure, connecting early-stage metrics to concrete choices in pricing, sales, and management.
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Lessons from Tom Peters

Tom Peters, co-author of In Search of Excellence and originator of “The Brand Called You,” reframed management around culture, relationships, and personal branding, asking how Extreme Humanism can help businesses and individuals work with empathy and practical agility.
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Lessons from Tom Murphy

Tom Murphy built Capital Cities Communications by giving local operators extreme autonomy while tightly controlling capital allocation, creating a practical model for running lean operations, directing free cash flow, and making rational decisions without emotion.
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Lessons from Tom Hale

Tom Hale, CEO of Oura and a former executive at Momentive, HomeAway, and Linden Lab, applies product strategy and operational scaling to preventive health, with lessons on leading growing teams and designing hardware that fits into daily routines.
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Lessons from Tom Digan

Tom Digan, co-founder of Ladder, turned a failing fitness marketplace into an engineering-first strength-training app, using user reviews and organic TikTok growth to show how sharp product pivots, strong retention, and disciplined rebuilding can rescue a business.

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