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Profile Jul 25, 2026 8 min read

Lessons from Chieh Huang

Chieh Huang launched the mobile gaming studio Astro Ape before co founding Boxed, an online bulk retailer that adapted the warehouse club model for smartphones.

Profile Jul 25, 2026 10 min read

Lessons from Adam Brown

Adam Brown is a theoretical physicist at Stanford and an AI research lead at Google DeepMind. He studies everything from the fate of an accelerating universe to the mathematical reasoning limits of large language models.

Profile Jul 25, 2026 10 min read

Lessons from David Reich

Geneticist David Reich uses ancient DNA to reconstruct how populations moved, adapted, and mixed.

Profile Jul 25, 2026 7 min read

Lessons from Alex Imas

Alex Imas, a behavioral economist at UChicago Booth and Director of AGI Economics at Google DeepMind, studies how people depart from standard economic models and what those departures mean when choices are delegated to AI.

Profile Jul 25, 2026 8 min read

Lessons from Everett Berry

Everett Berry is the Head of GTM Engineering at Clay, where he built an infrastructure team to treat revenue operations as a software discipline.

Profile Jul 24, 2026 9 min read

Lessons from Jen Allen-Knuth

Jen Allen Knuth spent 18 years in enterprise sales before founding DemandJen to teach teams a sharper way to earn trust and close deals.

Profile Jul 24, 2026 7 min read

Lessons from Denise Dresser

Denise Dresser built her career scaling enterprise sales organizations at Salesforce before leading Slack through an AI driven transition and joining OpenAI as Chief Revenue Officer.

Profile Jul 24, 2026 6 min read

Lessons from Elizabeth Stone

As Netflix's Chief Product and Technology Officer, Elizabeth Stone runs the engineering, data, and design teams behind the platform's global scale.

Profile Jul 24, 2026 7 min read

Lessons from Joe Eskenazi

As Chief Revenue Officer at Kong Inc. , Joe Eskenazi treats enterprise sales as business optimization rather than a transactional pitch. He pushes his teams to drop a purely knowledge based mindset in favor of performance and exhaustive preparation.

Profile Jul 24, 2026 7 min read

Lessons from Paul Smith

Paul Smith built go to market organizations at Microsoft, Salesforce, and ServiceNow before joining Anthropic as Chief Commercial Officer to scale its enterprise business.

Profile Jul 23, 2026 8 min read

Lessons from Steven Schwartz

Steven Schwartz is the CEO and co founder of Whop, a marketplace for internet businesses and digital products. He advocates for "agentic income," the idea that people should leave the traditional 9 to 5 to build careers around their specific skills.

Profile Jul 23, 2026 7 min read

Lessons from Elisha Long

Elisha Long is the YouTube creator behind High Thumos and the deliberately provocative idea he calls “retardmaxxing.” Beneath the abrasive label is a recurring argument: too much self monitoring can become avoidance, while honest action creates the feedback that thinking alone cannot.

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