
From advertising exchanges to mobile games, esports and Form Bio, Kent Wakeford has made a career of helping new industries get organized. His story follows the work behind the spectacle: partnerships, teams, measurement and software.

After five exits, the Texas entrepreneur could have kept making software. Instead, he called geneticist George Church and turned a woolly mammoth into a company-building problem.

From Mosaic and web chat to social games and computational biology, Andrew Busey has spent three decades asking an unfashionably useful question: what essential piece is everyone else overlooking?