
A surprise resignation changed how Peter Melby thought about being a boss. From an IT company started in an apartment to New Charter, he has been working out how trust survives growth.

After co-founding Appirio and leading it to a $500 million acquisition agreement, Chris Barbin returned to the work he knew: helping people build services businesses. At Tercera, the next chapter runs through cloud ecosystems, old colleagues and the changing economics of AI.

A failed app at 18. A growing family of service businesses. Ben Spray’s career has become a running argument for knowing the work before building the software.