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Rick Nucci Connected the Cloud. Now He Wants AI to Remember What Matters.
Across two companies and a quarter-century, the Philadelphia founder has kept returning to one stubborn question: how do you get the right information to the right place at the right time?
Gagan Levy Wants Advertising to Find Its Conscience - and Its Courage
The Guru founder has spent two decades asking brands to stand for something. Now his field guide turns the same question on the people who lead them.
Jake Saper
Jake Saper is a General Partner at Emergence Capital, the San Francisco-based venture firm that backed Zoom, Salesforce, and Veeva before the rest of the world caught on. Over a decade at Emergence, he has become one of the loudest and most credible voices on AI-native services — companies that combine human expertise with AI to displace the $200B consulting industry. His 2024 essay 'The Death of Deloitte' earned him a cease-and-desist from Deloitte and a loyal readership of founders rebuilding professional services from scratch. A Yale and Stanford-trained operator-turned-investor, he grew up in Austin watching serial-entrepreneur parents build companies, started his own career selling rocks door-to-door from a Radio Flyer wagon, and today holds board seats at category-defining enterprise companies while maintaining a side career as a self-described 'mediocre guitar player.'