Profiles directory

Profile Aug 16, 2026 6 min read

Lessons from Mia Glaese

As Vice President of Research at OpenAI, Mia Glaese leads teams focused on model alignment, human data, and capability evaluations.

Profile Aug 16, 2026 5 min read

Lessons from Amanda Kahlow

Amanda Kahlow founded 6sense and grew it past $100 million in revenue before taking a five year break. She recently returned to build 1mind, a startup replacing traditional sales funnels with conversational AI agents.

Profile Aug 16, 2026 5 min read

Lessons from Felix Rieseberg

Felix Rieseberg leads engineering for Anthropic's Claude Cowork and Claude Code Desktop, drawing on his background as a core maintainer of the Electron framework.

Profile Aug 16, 2026 7 min read

Lessons from Joshua Achiam

Joshua Achiam is an AI researcher who served as OpenAI's Head of Mission Alignment before becoming the company's Chief Futurist.

Profile Aug 16, 2026 5 min read

Lessons from Walden Yan

Walden Yan co founded Cognition AI, the company behind the autonomous coding agent Devin. A former competitive programming champion, he helped shift AI coding from simple text completion to asynchronous background execution.

Profile Aug 16, 2026 6 min read

Lessons from Olivia Moore

Olivia Moore is a partner on the investing team at Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), where she focuses on consumer applications and the rapidly evolving AI landscape.

Profile Aug 16, 2026 4 min read

Lessons from Nader Khalil

Software engineer Nader Khalil built Brev. dev to untangle cloud GPU access and developer environments before selling the company to NVIDIA. His work now focuses on AI agent infrastructure and expanding access to open source models.

Profile Aug 16, 2026 6 min read

Lessons from Andy Beam

Andy Beam left a Harvard professorship in epidemiology and medical informatics to build autonomous laboratories as CTO of Lila Sciences. He argues that AI's next step is generating physical data by wiring language models directly to robots.

Profile Aug 16, 2026 4 min read

Lessons from Melisa Tokmak

Melisa Tokmak ran government and enterprise operations at Scale AI before founding Netic, an AI platform for physical service industries. She focuses on fully automating workflows for plumbers, roofers, and mechanics instead of just building basic digital assistants.

Profile Aug 16, 2026 5 min read

Lessons from Ali Taha

Before stepping in as Turkcell’s CEO, Dr. Ali Taha Koç worked as an R&D engineer at Intel and directed Turkey's Digital Transformation Office.

Profile Aug 09, 2026 7 min read

Lessons from Alex Blania

Theoretical physicist Alex Blania co founded Worldcoin (now World) with Sam Altman to build a global digital identity and financial network.

Profile Aug 09, 2026 7 min read

Lessons from Alex Mashrabov

Alex Mashrabov is a former competitive programmer who built the generative AI infrastructure behind Snapchat’s face filters. He later founded Higgsfield AI to make cinematic video generation cheaper for social media marketers.