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Lachlan Donald’s Second Act Has a Different Job Title
He helped Buildkite grow, stepped aside as CEO, and returned as CTO. Lachlan Donald’s career keeps circling the same question: what gets in the way of people doing good work?
Alex Davis and the business of getting in
From online real estate auctions to the machinery behind AI, Alex Davis has built a career connecting companies with capital. Now the Dallas investor faces a new question: how much can his way of working grow?
Mike Henry Is Building the Air-Traffic Control for AI Compute
After a decade spent trying to make one chip do more, the Parasail co-founder is taking a wider view: connect the scattered machines, hide the plumbing, and let builders ask for tokens instead of servers.
The Only Two Bets BlueYard Will Make: Utopia or Oblivion
BlueYard hands early-stage founders a check between $500K and $5M to chase problems most investors call radioactive - fusion reactors, hypersonic defense, decentralized money, engineered cells. Since 2016 it has backed Solana, Groq, IonQ and Filecoin from a partnership split between Berlin and the US.
Sanity
Sanity is a content platform that treats content as structured data rather than pages, giving developers an API-first backend (the real-time Content Lake), a query language (GROQ), a rich-text spec (Portable Text), and a fully customizable React editor (Sanity Studio). Founded in Norway in 2016, it now positions itself as the 'Content Operating System for the AI era,' powering web, mobile, and agentic applications for teams like Nike, Puma, Figma, Cloudflare and National Geographic.
Jennifer Vancini
Jennifer Vancini is Co-Founder and General Partner at Mighty Capital, one of Silicon Valley's few woman-owned venture capital firms. With 20+ years in technology investments and M&A, she co-founded Mighty Capital in 2017 alongside SC Moatti, leveraging a network of 600,000+ product leaders to identify breakout B2B tech startups early. The firm's track record includes six IPOs in eight years - including early bets on Amplitude and Groq - and the April 2026 close of a $91M Fund III, triple its predecessor. Before VC, Vancini built a career spanning enterprise BD roles at Certicom, Symbian, Nokia, and Telefónica, culminating in a family investment office that returned 15x cash-on-cash before she co-founded Mighty Capital.
Steph Smith
Steph Smith is a Canadian writer, podcaster, and growth operator who went from chemical engineering to becoming one of tech's most respected content voices. She grew The Hustle's Trends newsletter to 15,000+ paying subscribers (contributing to an 8-figure acquisition), hosted the flagship a16z Podcast at Andreessen Horowitz, sold $250K+ worth of her book 'Doing Content Right', and launched Internet Pipes - a community of 2,700+ people learning to extract business insights from internet data. She's currently at NVIDIA after transitioning from Groq following Nvidia's $20B deal.