
From deep-sea shipwrecks to the factory floor, David Mindell has spent his career studying what happens when people and machines work together. The Humatics co-founder and MIT professor keeps finding human judgment where the automation story leaves it out.

From Reno’s startup community to nuclear power, remote computing and electric racing, Kerem Ozmen has built an investing career around a stubborn question: what does it take to get an ambitious machine into the world?

After years inside industrial gas systems, the Sustaera co-founder rebuilt direct air capture around a stubborn idea: climate hardware wins when the complicated parts disappear.