
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 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.
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.