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Andy Singh and the case for a smaller room
He built Teqfocus across borders. Now Andy Singh keeps bringing technology leaders back to the same table, asking what it takes to make AI useful inside a business.
John Friesen and the years before the deal
John Friesen built Direct Line around the physical connections behind computing. His advice about selling a business puts years of preparation, and the people across the table, at the center of the story.
Colin Behring’s two-block theory of a city
A Shanghai internship helped shape Colin Behring’s approach to Oakland: put homes, work and transport close together. His growing Uptown campus now faces a public test over the place of AI computing in the neighborhood.
Foto Shop’s real business: the errands a camera can’t finish
A Danville photo shop put family memories, passport pictures and fingerprinting on the same service list. Its unlikely mix offers a useful lesson in what people will still pay someone else to handle.