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Andrew Morris and the art of paying less attention
A teenage Linux user became a security founder by asking why everybody was being attacked. Then Andrew Morris handed over the CEO job at GreyNoise to get closer to the questions that started it all.
Dan Campbell and the Architecture of Useful Friction
He helped turn three consultants' irritation with inflexible compliance software into a platform built to bend. A decade later, LogicGate's co-founder is still asking the architect's favorite question: what should remain changeable?
Marcelo Cortes Learned Retail on an Intel 286. Now He Is Teaching AI Some Taste
The Faire co-founder grew up watching his parents run a video shop in Brazil, learned code by trying commands he could not yet read, and built a career around one question: how can software give small retailers better odds without taking away their judgment?
Tallat Shafaat
Tallat Shafaat is the founder and CEO of Vectara, a Palo Alto based enterprise AI company that pioneered retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) as a service. A former core engineer on Google's Knowledge Graph indexing team, he holds a PhD in distributed systems from KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. He co-founded Vectara in 2020 with Amr Awadallah and Amin Ahmad, led the engineering behind the company's Boomerang retrieval model and the open-source HHEM hallucination detection model, and stepped up from chief architect to CEO as the company entered its next growth phase.