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The Camera Company That Left Twelve Bodies on the Moon
A 185-year-old Swedish name, twelve camera bodies still sitting in the lunar dust, and a $7,399 flagship. How Hasselblad turned a tiny, expensive niche into a brand that outlives its owners.
How a Dorm-Room Drone Project Became the Company That Owns the Sky
Frank Wang built his first flight controller in a Hong Kong dorm. Two decades later DJI sells most of the drones on Earth - and Washington is trying to decide whether to let it keep selling them here.
Dhanush Balachandran
Dhanush Balachandran is the founder and CEO of Sortly, a visual, QR-code-driven inventory and asset tracking platform used by small businesses, families, and teams in construction, medical, retail, and education. A marketer-turned-iOS-developer, he taught himself to code, built an app originally called 'My Things,' rebranded it to Sortly, and grew it to millions of downloads. Before Sortly he spent over 15 years across Intel, Apple, DJI, and Y Media Labs, where he forecast worldwide CPU demand, priced server chips, and built ResearchKit medical research apps.
Tony Xia
Tony Xia is a computer vision engineer turned venture scout and startup founder who built his technical chops at DJI, AutoX, and Arraiy (acquired by Matterport) before co-founding Crema Social - a video-call-meets-food-delivery international dating platform that amassed over 1 million signups in 8 months. After graduating from a16z speedrun's Cohort 003, he became a Scout for a16z speedrun, backing pre-seed founders with $10K checks and a direct path into one of Silicon Valley's most competitive accelerators.