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Speakeasy Strategies makes the invisible worth watching
The agency behind communications for CNCF, Red Hat and Workday also makes documentaries about software. Its most useful idea: find the people inside the technical story.
James Schmachtenberger Built a Career by Refusing the Obvious Door
He left school, bought a college at 18, organized an unruly industry and built Qualia. The useful lesson is not rebellion for its own sake - it is his habit of turning curiosity into institutions.
VICE Bet $5.7 Billion on Owning Youth Culture. Bankruptcy Taught It to Rent.
The punk magazine that became a media empire lost the economics before it lost the audience. Its second act is smaller, stranger and surprisingly practical: finance the shows, license the brand and let partners carry the machinery.
The Boston Station That Quietly Built America’s Public-Media Habit
GBH helped turn science, history, children’s television and investigative reporting into American rituals. Now the 75-year-old public-media producer is trying to carry that trust from the broadcast schedule into an on-demand world.
David Fialkow
David Fialkow is the co-founder and Managing Director of General Catalyst, a $40+ billion venture capital firm based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Beyond building one of America's most influential VC firms, he has produced over 20 documentary films - including two Academy Award winners (Icarus and Navalny) - making him a rare figure who operates with equal conviction in finance and storytelling. Known for backing bold ideas from Airbnb to Anduril, Fialkow brings the same instinct for truth-telling to the board room that drives his work on screen.