Profile 7 min read

Lessons from Milton Hershey

Milton Hershey made milk chocolate an everyday staple, then directed his wealth toward workers and children in need. His early bankruptcies illuminate a practical, lasting philosophy of manufacturing quality, community service, and business responsibility.
Profile 10 min read

Lessons from Miles Grimshaw

Miles Grimshaw, a venture investor at Thrive Capital and formerly Benchmark, treats startup growth as biology rather than rigid physics, connecting that perspective to founder selection, multi-product expansion, and shifting capital dynamics in the AI era.
Profile 9 min read

Lessons from Miles Clements

Miles Clements, an Accel partner investing in growth-stage AI, cloud, and enterprise software, brings a product manager’s focus on fundamentals to developer platforms, open-source communities, venture mechanics, and the evolving practice of AI-assisted coding.
Profile 10 min read

Lessons from Michelle Benfer

Michelle Benfer, a technology executive who has led sales and revenue teams at HubSpot, BILL, and Litmos, offers a data-driven approach to scaling go-to-market organizations, diagnosing performance, and helping frontline managers navigate organizational change.
Profile 9 min read

Lessons from Michelle Adams

Michelle Adams, a University of Michigan law professor, studies how law constructed American segregation, especially how Milliken v. Bradley insulated Northern housing and education disparities from federal oversight and weakened prospects for metropolitan integration.
Profile 6 min read

Lessons from Michele Ferrero

Michele Ferrero transformed an Italian family pastry shop into the business behind Nutella, Kinder, Tic Tac, and Ferrero Rocher, guided by disciplined, people-centered management and product decisions framed around an imaginary buyer named Valeria.
Profile 10 min read

Lessons from Michael Miebach

Michael Miebach, Mastercard’s CEO, is broadening the company beyond card networks into a digital platform, treating financial inclusion, cybersecurity, and technologies such as agentic AI as foundations of business resilience and disciplined technological change.
Profile 8 min read

Lessons from Micha Kaufman

Micha Kaufman, Fiverr’s co-founder and CEO, turned digital services into e-commerce products. His perspective joins blunt lessons on two-sided marketplaces and startup execution with urgent questions about AI, work, and scaling a global platform.

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