
Before Pinecone, there was a family spreadsheet and a question about the mortgage. Edo Liberty’s pursuit of useful knowledge has taken him from mathematical proofs to AI memory - and, now, beyond the daily running of the company he founded.
After CERN, Elina Berglund Scherwitzl spent a year teaching herself to build an app. The Natural Cycles co-founder’s second career would ask her to learn something harder: how to stop doing everything herself.

At eleven, Nicholas Conn wanted to be an engineer and an entrepreneur. A doctoral project, an unlikely household object, and a willingness to share the controls gave him a way to become both.

Sarang Jagdale is a PhD engineer turned supply chain AI co-founder who spent over two decades cracking some of the world's hardest logistics problems - from IBM's global consulting floors to the startup that eventually became Lyric. As Head of Decision Science at Lyric, he architects the algorithmic core of a platform now trusted by Coca-Cola, Google, and Mondelez to make their supply chains think for themselves. Lyric raised $43.5M in Series B funding in August 2025, bringing total funding to $67M.

Ashish Pratap Singh is an Indian software engineer turned full-time creator who built AlgoMaster - a newsletter, platform, and YouTube channel helping 700,000+ developers crack coding interviews. After stints at Morgan Stanley, Amazon, and Adobe, he quit his SDE-2 role at Amazon US in mid-2024 to return to India and build AlgoMaster.io from scratch. His newsletter grew from zero to 140,000+ subscribers in roughly 12 months, and his GitHub repositories have accumulated 85,000+ stars.