
He studied music, practiced law, pushed wheelchairs and cleaned 747s. Then Doug Kreuzkamp built Springshot around a deceptively practical idea: the best operations software should feel less like an order and more like a well-conducted ensemble.

He learned rejection door to door in Argentina, built NFC experiments in a Utah garage, and moved to San Francisco to help local businesses become legible to machines. Now the Cheers co-founder is betting that a five-star review can be both a thank-you note and a data point.

He delivered rice in Uber cars, rebuilt after a pandemic shutdown, and turned from restaurant storerooms to factory workstations. Across three startups, Aswin Andrison has kept asking the same practical question: where does work still hurt?

Before the algorithms came the warehouse, the kitchen and the boiler room. Jason Radisson turned an unusually wide education in work into a career scaling marketplaces - and a practical theory of how companies should treat the people who keep them moving.