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John Phillip Morgan and the Art of Building for the Next Turn
Before Jasper made AI writing familiar, JP Morgan had already built through failed software bets, a $300-a-month marketing client, and a difficult lesson in technical debt. His response was to build the next product so it could change quickly.
Dino Mavrookas and the Case for a Thousand Boats
He left the SEAL teams for private equity, then left private equity to build boats. At Saronic, Dino Mavrookas is testing a blunt idea: an autonomous fleet matters only if a country can actually make it.
Dave Rogenmoser Built an AI Unicorn. Now He Is Building a Place to Belong.
The Jasper co-founder spent years learning what a product cannot do. His next venture trades prompts for putting greens, with an old lesson about friendship still doing the work.
Hayes Barnard and the Mathematics of Enough
He learned to sell software, mortgages and solar. Then a school-building trip to Mali changed what he thought all that machinery was for.
Charles Acknin Is Teaching Cargo Drones to Earn the Sky
The Skyways founder began with a $1,000 foam aircraft and a useful appetite for crashes. His bigger idea is that autonomous aviation earns trust one cargo flight at a time.