A childhood friendship, a bicycle wheel and a decision to turn down the Dragons. How HYPERVSN’s founder built a career around the moment someone stops walking.

After three decades of chips, turnarounds and startup bets, Mike Noonen arrived at a peculiar frontier: making holography behave like a semiconductor business.

Before he built displays that turn photons into objects, Jon Karafin made a two-ton sculpture run on living yeast. His career is a study in what happens when an artist's appetite for wonder meets an engineer's refusal to hand-wave the physics.