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Brian Muse Built Software for the Office. Then the Office Vanished.
Robin's co-founder spent a decade teaching rooms to understand people. The harder lesson arrived when people stopped going to rooms at all.
Jonathan Ronzio Has Never Seen a Lane He Couldn't Turn Into a Life
The Trainual co-founder has built his career by refusing the tidy choice between operator and artist, mountain and meeting, systems and surprise. His secret is not balance. It is combination.
Wes Schroll Turned a Grocery-Store Chore Into a Loyalty Machine
A college student disliked loyalty programs, wrote a business plan, and won enough pitch competitions to build the first version. The useful lesson in Fetch is not the receipt scanner - it is Schroll's habit of turning irritation into a game, then playing it fast.
Deepthi Bathina Is Building the Missing Layer Between AI and Action
After 28 years across code, product, and operations, the founder of RhythmX AI has arrived at a stubbornly practical thesis: intelligence matters only when it reaches the person who can act on it.
Ian Riopel Wants Software Security to Fix the Problem, Not Forward the Ticket
After years spent watching security teams produce longer lists of vulnerabilities, the Root co-founder made a different bet: patch the software, preserve the workflow, and give developers their time back.
Chris Tolles Is Building a Tape Measure for the Dirt
The furniture designer turned climate founder is betting that better soil data can make carbon claims more credible - and regenerative agriculture more useful to the people who actually work the land.
Dave Spandorfer Built Janji for the Long Run
A hot 10K, a borrowed business education and years spent fixing the product turned a student idea into Janji. Now its co-founder is testing what a mission-led running brand can promise next.