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Alex Lonsberry Taught a Robot to Notice the Mess
A childhood spent building in an Ohio garage led to a doctoral lab, a stubborn sheet of shiny steel and a company built around one unfashionable truth: the real world refuses to hold still.
Lindsay Radkoski Learned to Market Burgers by Reading the Numbers
She entered Wendy's through investor relations, learned the machinery behind the menu, and emerged as the marketer behind value platforms, loyalty and a very online redhead. Now a 15-year chapter is entering its final stretch.
Benjamin Shaker Built One Market. Then It Became the Operating Manual.
Agilon health began its national field test in Columbus with Benjamin Shaker at the controls. His career since has been an exercise in making a local partnership repeatable without making it generic.
Will Duderstadt and the Useful Work of Making People Care
The M/I Homes CMO built his career where spreadsheets meet stories - learning that a buyer may forget the rate, but rarely forgets how a place feels.
Paul Powers
Paul Powers is the co-founder and CEO of Physna, the Ohio startup teaching computers to understand the physical world by turning 3D geometry into searchable 'Physical DNA.' A homeschooled kid who entered Harvard at 16 and later passed the German bar exam in a foreign language, he turned an intellectual-property obsession into a geometric-search company backed by Sequoia, Tiger Global, and Drive Capital. Physna also runs Thangs, a community platform of tens of millions of 3D models that he describes as the GitHub for hardware. A Forbes 30 Under 30 honoree, Powers is one of the most prominent founders building deep-tech outside Silicon Valley.