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Jason Cohen, founder of A Smart Bear and WP Engine and a four-time entrepreneur, offers candid, experience-based guidance on startups and strategy, focusing attention on the practical decisions involved in building businesses and scaling them.
Peter Zakin, an Upfront Ventures investor with experience in software engineering, product management at Venmo, and founding companies, explores artificial intelligence, the future of software, and startup strategy through a distinctly hands-on technology lens.
Robert “Rob” E. Siegel, a Stanford management lecturer, venture capitalist, and former GE and Intel executive, advances systems leadership: a practical, multi-lens approach to guiding organizations through volatility, rapid change, and complex modern challenges.
Ethan Evans, a former Amazon vice president and voice in career development and leadership, centers career ownership and growth, inviting professionals to examine how responsibility for their direction shapes the way they develop and lead.
Colin Bryar, a former Amazon senior executive and “Working Backwards” co-author, helped develop and scale processes behind the company’s innovation culture. His experience makes customer obsession a lens for studying durable organizational operating principles.
Ed Catmull, Pixar co-founder and former Walt Disney Animation Studios president, examines how leaders can foster creativity and innovation. His work focuses on people, teams, and the unseen organizational forces that can prevent new ideas from flourishing.
Andrew S. Grove, Intel’s former CEO and chairman, was a technology pioneer and management theorist shaped by upheaval and the semiconductor industry. His disciplined, vigilant leadership asks how organizations can treat success as fragile and respond to change.
Bill “The Coach” Campbell was a football coach, business executive, and mentor whose human-centered management shaped prominent Silicon Valley leaders. His example makes leadership a study in relationships: how a human-centered approach and coaching can strengthen organizational performance.