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Carolyn Childers and the problem with having all the answers
She spent her career learning how to run businesses. Then Carolyn Childers built Chief around a question successful women were rarely given room to ask: who helps the person everyone else turns to?
The Voice Elizabeth Koraca Had to Build for Herself
A teacher once told a shy Elizabeth Koraca not to quit her day job. She built a career on camera anyway, then made a second one from helping other people say the thing they came to say.
Vic Noble Built a Career by Making the Complicated Feel Human
She spent decades turning regulated, technical products into brands people could recognize. Now the former Shire executive is applying the same instinct to independent advising, board service and the stubbornly human business of connection.
JB Bakst
JB Bakst is the founder and CEO of Chief, an AI email agent he pitches as 'the first inbox with good judgment.' A Stanford computer science grad and Manhattan native now based in Los Angeles, he cut his teeth as an early engineer at Airtable - where he obsessed over fun, delightful productivity UX - after starting out building iOS and full-stack at the six-person video-messaging startup Chime. His thesis for Chief: your email is a 12-year record of how you actually make decisions, so software should play those decisions forward rather than dump everything in a feed.