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Brian Raney and the permission to try
A college textbook venture led Brian Raney into software. The harder problem was finding other founders in Lexington - so he and his friends started building the places where they could meet.
Lady Mariéme Jamme
A library gave Mariéme Jamme the vocabulary to rebuild her life. Now she is turning code, mentorship and an insistence on human dignity into a global education system for girls too often left outside the digital economy.
Haya Odeh
Haya Odeh is the co-founder and VP of Design at Replit, the cloud-based AI-powered software development platform with over 50 million users. Born in Abu Dhabi and raised in Jordan, she studied graphic design and fine arts before building the visual identity and product design of one of the world's fastest-growing developer communities. She pioneered Replit's design shift from developer-only tooling to accessible, no-code software creation - a single word change from 'deploy' to 'publish' dramatically increased app creation rates. Alongside her husband and co-founder Amjad Masad, she navigated four Y Combinator rejections before being accepted in 2018 and raising over $872 million in total funding.