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Dan Schoenbaum Has Spent 30 Years Turning Partnerships Into Growth
From an 80-mile march to a 1,400-integration ecosystem, Dan Schoenbaum has built a career around one durable idea: growth happens when people know the hill, trust the team and move together.
The Producer Behind AWS re:Invent
She turned a cloud computing conference into one of tech's biggest annual gatherings, and she runs it from a small mountain town in Oregon.
Michael Ulin
Michael Ulin is a three-time AI founder and engineer who builds machine-learning companies in heavily regulated industries. He was the founding AI engineer and VP of AI at ZestyAI, whose property-risk models help underwrite trillions in U.S. insured assets, then co-founded and served as CTO of Paxton AI, a generative-AI legal research tool used by thousands of attorneys that raised a $6M seed round in 2023. He now builds from Bend, Oregon, where his current work centers on Trarian, applying AI to patent underwriting, alongside ventures spanning AI forecasting and probabilistic reasoning. He also writes the Substack 'And Yet It Moves' on entrepreneurship and the case for building startups outside Silicon Valley.