
She started ROI Communication with two young daughters and a question about how work should fit into a life. Twenty-five years later, her employee-owned firm is taking that question into the age of AI.

When VMware's end-user computing business became independent, Renu Upadhyay had to make an unfamiliar name carry two decades of trust. Her method joins an engineer's appetite for systems with a marketer's insistence on listening.

From Bing and Surface to AWS machine learning, Convoy and Slack, Gavin has built a career at the seam between product and market. His latest bet is that AI becomes useful when it joins the conversation already in progress.

Jared Spataro spent two decades helping Office become a service and Teams become a workplace. Now he is selling a stranger idea - software will go beyond assisting the organization and join the org chart.