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Lessons from Martín Escobari

Martín Escobari, General Atlantic Co-President and Submarino co-founder, applies lessons from Bolivian hyperinflation to growth investing, emphasizing strict unit economics, structural resilience, founder psychology, and decisive action when economic downturns test otherwise durable businesses.
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Lessons from Martin Mignot

Martin Mignot, an Index Ventures partner and “Not Optional” campaigner, studies how founders manage growth and transatlantic expansion, drawing practical connections among valuation discipline, hiring, stock-option reform, and the realities of building global software and logistics companies.
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Lessons from Mark Velthuis

Mark Velthuis, founder of blankKANVAS and a go-to-market operator, specializes in connecting self-serve product adoption with enterprise sales across Asia-Pacific, offering methods for structuring revenue teams, managing channel partnerships, and expanding internationally with discipline.
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Lessons from Mark Blyth

Mark Blyth, a Brown University political economist, studies how economic ideas dictate political reality, tracing austerity’s failures and the global market shifts that fuel public anger to explain why standard economic playbooks repeatedly fail ordinary people.
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Lessons from Mark Bertolini

Mark Bertolini, who led Aetna and Bridgewater Associates before Oscar Health, links leadership to lived experience: surviving severe injury, managing chronic pain, improving workplace pay and well-being, and confronting how limited time should shape healthcare decisions.
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Lessons from Maria Sharapova

Maria Sharapova moved from Russia to the United States at seven to pursue professional tennis and eventually won five Grand Slam singles titles, a trajectory linking childhood relocation, professional ambition, and achievement at the sport’s highest level.
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Lessons from Maor Shlomo

Maor Shlomo, the entrepreneur behind Explorium and Base44, bootstrapped a natural-language coding tool that Wix acquired six months after launch, illustrating how lean operations under pressure can capitalize on the shift toward natural-language development.
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Lessons from Madhavan Ramanujam

Madhavan Ramanujam, a Simon-Kucher senior partner and Monetizing Innovation co-author, argues that willingness to pay should be understood before coding begins, using pricing and packaging discipline to prevent product failures and guide artificial-intelligence offerings.

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