
He helped build Watsi from a volunteer project into Y Combinator’s first nonprofit. Now Chase Adam is working on the part of startup life that rarely makes the pitch deck: how founders learn to lead.

Jackson Jesionowski built Persist around people waiting for a chance to build. At Open Droids, he is taking that same argument into the physical world, one wheeled robot at a time.
She passed up a job at Google to help strangers start companies. Now Alice Bentinck is taking that experiment from London to San Francisco, asking who gets to become a founder in the first place.

From Avanade’s founding team to startup classrooms across borders, Chris Burry has spent his career working on a stubborn problem: helping capable people become capable founders.