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Thibault Duchemin and the prize-winning idea he had to abandon
A glove won him a Berkeley startup competition. Listening to the people it was meant to help led him to Ava - and a career spent making room for more voices.
Jeremy Roche and the other half of the sale
Jeremy Roche built FinancialForce around a neglected part of the customer relationship: what happens after the deal is signed. His career connects British accounting software, a Salesforce bet, and the art of handing over a company you still care about.
Shishir Mehrotra
Shishir Mehrotra is the CEO of Grammarly and co-founder of Coda, the all-in-one work OS that reinvented the document. A veteran of YouTube (as VP of Product, Engineering & UX), Microsoft, and MIT, he spent a decade rebuilding how teams work before Grammarly acquired Coda in December 2024, handing him the keys to a platform with 40 million daily active users. His intellectual fingerprints are all over Silicon Valley's obsession with meeting design, team rituals, and AI-native productivity.