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Robert Hohman and the value of knowing what everyone else knows
Before he built Glassdoor, Robert Hohman spent a year playing World of Warcraft. The lesson he carried back to work was about people helping strangers - and it eventually brought him back to making games with his sons.
Barbara Bates and the value of changing your mind.
She built Eastwick around its people and defended its independence for 25 years. Selling the agency brought Barbara Bates a larger job - and another way to test what she believed.
Eastwick sold the agency. Then its founder ran the buyer.
For 25 years, Eastwick helped technology companies explain themselves. Its own most revealing story is how a fiercely independent agency decided to sell - and what it carried into Hotwire.
David Heinemeier Hansson
David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH) is a Danish programmer, entrepreneur, and racing driver best known for creating Ruby on Rails - the open-source web framework that powered GitHub, Shopify, Airbnb, and thousands of other companies. As CTO and co-owner of 37signals (makers of Basecamp and HEY email), he is one of tech's most outspoken critics of venture capital culture, cloud computing excess, and hustle-culture mythology. A 12-time Le Mans competitor with a class championship in 2014, DHH is also a bestselling author (REWORK, Remote) and a prolific open-source contributor whose side projects routinely reshape developer culture.