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Yuval Kaminka and the business of beginning again
A reluctant young musician gave Yuval Kaminka an idea. Turning it into Simply took years of experiments, a pricing lesson from hamburgers, and a willingness to let his own team overrule him.
PeopleConnect Helps You Find People - and Hide Your Own Report
TruthFinder, Intelius and Classmates sit inside a company that turns personal history into a consumer product. With free report suppression and OmniWatch identity protection, PeopleConnect also serves the person who would rather stay out of the search results.
Simply wants you to quit quitting music
The company behind Simply Piano turned a familiar family argument into a subscription business. Its next bet: the same small victories can get you singing, drawing, and coming back tomorrow.
Runna sold the training plan. Strava bought the coach.
Two friends started with personalized running PDFs. Their subscription app now sits inside Strava, with a bigger test ahead: making the plan fit the runner when life refuses to cooperate.
Flo built a billion-dollar business around the questions women were left to Google
A period tracker grew into a subscription business used by 80 million people a month. Its next chapter runs through perimenopause, medical research and the difficult business of earning trust with intimate data.
The App Factory That Traded Guitar Strings for Face Yoga
After a billion downloads, Gismart is tuning its consumer-app machine for wellness. The clever part is not any single app - it is the system underneath them.
Sean Spector Keeps Building for the Last Mile
Before Sean Spector put live tracking on same-day deliveries, he helped put video games in the mail. His career is a study in spotting old systems that customers have quietly learned to tolerate - then rebuilding the experience around visibility, convenience and trust.
They Burned $550,000 Selling Trust. Then The Lifetime Value Co. Learned to Sell Curiosity
Josh Levy and Ross Cohen spent 11 months pitching an identity badge nobody would buy. Their pivot - from asking people to verify themselves to helping customers investigate the world around them - became a portfolio of data products used by millions.
The Map That Knows Who Owns the Dirt
onX began with a Montana hunter loading property lines onto a GPS chip. It now sells millions of subscribers something more valuable than a pin on a screen: confidence about where they can go, what they will find and how to get back.
Snap Is Building the Computer That Hopes You’ll Look Up
Snapchat made disappearing photos feel natural. Now Snap is using that private, camera-first habit - plus ads, subscriptions and an army of Lens creators - to finance a much stranger bet on what comes after the phone.
Kurt Beidler
Kurt Beidler is the Chief Executive Officer of Quizlet, the AI-powered learning platform used by hundreds of millions of students worldwide. Appointed in July 2024, he brings 17 years of Amazon experience scaling subscription businesses - most notably growing Amazon Kids+ into the world's largest youth-focused subscription service and launching Kindle into China. Under his leadership, Quizlet has grown revenue to $139M annually while aggressively integrating AI tools including a native ChatGPT app integration, lecture recording features, and an OpenAI partnership aimed at keeping students' entire study workflow on one platform.