berkshire-hathaway
(5)
Nevena Srebreva and the art of getting people to try
From Avon to Thermomix USA to Pampered Chef, Nevena Srebreva has built a career around the demonstration. Now the CEO is helping a business built on cooking parties find its next audience, one screen and one kitchen at a time.
Bobby Le Blanc and the business of staying put
After seven years at Berkshire Hathaway and more than two decades at Onex, Bobby Le Blanc took the CEO chair. His next chapter asks a deceptively simple question: what if a good investment is worth keeping?
Geff Scott and the business of getting the news there
An accountant became the CEO of Business Wire. Geff Scott’s route from audits to a global news network offers a view of the careful work behind a public announcement.
Ann Winblad
Ann Winblad is a Silicon Valley legend who bootstrapped her first software company with $500 borrowed from her brother, sold it for $15 million, then co-founded the world's first venture capital firm exclusively dedicated to software in 1989. Over 30+ years at Hummer Winblad Venture Partners, she backed 160+ enterprise software companies - including first-institutional-investor bets on MuleSoft (acquired by Salesforce for $6.5B) and Omniture (acquired by Adobe for $1.8B) - while becoming the most influential female venture capitalist of her generation.
Andrew Wilkinson
Andrew Wilkinson is a Canadian entrepreneur, investor, and author who built Tiny - a publicly traded holding company (TSX: TINY) often called 'the Berkshire Hathaway of the internet' - from a one-man design agency he started with $200 at age 20. Having dropped out of university after less than a year, he transformed a $6.50/hour barista gig into a billion-dollar empire of 32+ internet businesses including Dribbble, AeroPress, Letterboxd, and Serato. His 2024 memoir 'Never Enough: From Barista to Billionaire' became a USA Today bestseller and candidly explores why wealth didn't bring happiness, his ADHD diagnosis, and his commitment to giving away most of his fortune through the Giving Pledge.