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Alisée de Tonnac and the hand that stayed down
A question at L’Oréal unsettled her carefully planned career. Twenty countries later, Alisée de Tonnac was helping build a different route for entrepreneurs in emerging markets.
Pierre-Alain Masson and the geography of a good idea
Before Seedstars reached more than 90 countries, Pierre-Alain Masson was building internet businesses in Geneva. A competition took him abroad; the work that followed was about what happens after the pitch.
Pradeep Kakkattil and the Case for Leaving the Building
He began in journalism and filmmaking in India. Now the HIEx founder connects entrepreneurs, investors and public institutions - and argues that good ideas sometimes need a place of their own.
Jérôme Wojcik and the work that survived the office
When Merck Serono closed its Geneva headquarters, Jérôme Wojcik took a specialist skill into a company of his own. The founder of Quartz Bio has kept returning to a practical question: how do you make data worth the time it takes?
Maggie Gu Is Betting That Agency Outlasts Every Skill
A diplomat's first journey to Africa became a twenty-year argument about who gets to shape the future. Now the Tomorrow Foundation founder is moving the conversation from access to agency.