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Jon Ferrara and the things we forget
A pile of concert tickets, a $5,000 software company, and a career spent keeping conversations from disappearing. For Nimble founder Jon Ferrara, remembering people has always been the point.
Marcel Pividal and the Long Road to Useful AI
Before enterprise AI became a boardroom obsession, Marcel Pividal spent two decades learning how systems fail, scale, and earn trust. Now at Glean, he brings the patience of a network engineer to the impatient age of agents.
Beth Silverman and the Business of Turning No Into a Lease
She spent a career learning how cities, developers and nonprofits talk past one another. Then she built a housing model around the useful part of no.
Stacy Shelley Built Cybersecurity Brands Before the Market Learned to Trust Them
After two acquisitions and two decades selling security to people paid to distrust claims, the Asheville marketer is betting that useful tools and sharper ideas will outlast the content mill.