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Monty Montoya and the business of making a mission work
A payroll problem brought Monty Montoya to SightLife. The CorneaGen founder’s career became a study in building organizations, sharing responsibility and knowing when to change the structure.
Dave Firdaus and the business of being understood
After years running established companies, Dave Firdaus co-founded Clever Care with a specific audience in mind. His route from engineering and consulting to company building turns on the people behind the operating plan.
Doug Black and the art of gaining ground
Before he led SiteOne Landscape Supply, Doug Black carried the ball for Army. His route from West Point to the landscape trade runs through engineering, acquisitions and a persistent interest in what teams can build together.
Yeaseul Park Is Turning a Lab Ritual Into a Pocket-Sized Habit
The Orange Biomed co-founder has spent five years translating single-cell science into something ordinary people might actually use - and learning that the hardest part of a tiny device is the enormous system around it.
Eric Tsai
Eric Tsai is the co-founder and CEO of Asteroom, a proptech company that turns an ordinary smartphone into a professional 3D virtual tour studio. A former Facebook data scientist, he left big tech in 2019 to chase a stubborn problem in real estate: high-quality property visualization was too expensive and too complicated for the average agent. Under his lead, Asteroom grew to serve tens of thousands of agents and built a nationwide network of certified data collectors, becoming the first 3D tour platform to power property data collection for Freddie Mac's ACE+ PDR and Fannie Mae's value-acceptance programs.
Dorie Clark
Dorie Clark is a strategy consultant, executive education professor, and bestselling author recognized four times by Thinkers50 as one of the top 50 business thinkers in the world. Named the #1 Communication Coach in the World by the Marshall Goldsmith Leading Global Coaches Awards, she teaches at Duke University's Fuqua School of Business and has written four books published by Harvard Business Review Press and Portfolio/Penguin. A former political campaign press secretary, documentary filmmaker, and Grammy-winning jazz album producer, Clark is also an active Broadway investor and musical theatre lyricist-in-training - living proof that the 'long game' she preaches is one she plays herself.