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Aji Abraham's case for keeping the day job
A decade at Motorola helped Aji Abraham learn how to build. With Armia and CodeVentures, he has made a business of helping other founders begin before they have a technical team of their own.
Alan Levitz and the Art of Getting 24 Owners to Agree
Alera Group began with 24 independent firms and a shared wager on working together. Its founding CEO, Alan Levitz, spent eight years turning that wager into a national business before handing over the chief executive’s chair.
Michael Foley
Michael Foley is a medicinal chemist turned serial biotech founder who is now CEO and co-founder of Excelsior Sciences, a New York company building 'chemistry that machines can do.' His proprietary 'smart blocc' building blocks let robots and AI run iterative carbon-carbon bond formation in a closed loop, aiming to collapse the wall between drug discovery and manufacturing. Foley has founded multiple biotechs, ran the Broad Institute's Chemical Biology Platform, and was founding CEO of the Tri-Institutional Therapeutics Discovery Institute. Excelsior launched with $95 million in 2025.