Tiago Forte is the founder of Forte Labs and creator of the Building a Second Brain methodology - a framework that has helped 20,000+ people in 70+ countries organize their digital lives and unlock creative potential. Author of the bestselling book of the same name (Simon & Schuster, 2022), named Financial Times Book of the Year, he has built one of the most influential productivity brands online, with 125,000+ newsletter subscribers and a YouTube channel crossing 100K subscribers. Known for the PARA method and Progressive Summarization, Forte turned his own struggle with information overload into a global movement.
Glean is an AI-powered Work AI platform founded in 2019 by former Google and Rubrik engineers, headquartered in Palo Alto, CA. The company offers enterprise search, an AI assistant, and an agentic platform that connects to 100+ business applications, enabling employees to find information and automate work across their entire digital workspace. With a mission to expand human potential to do extraordinary work, Glean has grown to over $200M ARR, achieved a $7.2B valuation in June 2025, and counts 400+ enterprises including Booking.com, eBay, LinkedIn, and Samsung as customers.
Notion is a block-based all-in-one workspace that combines documents, wikis, relational databases, project management, AI, calendar, and email into a single tool used by over 100 million people worldwide. Founded in 2012 by Ivan Zhao and Simon Last in San Francisco, Notion grew from a near-shutdown side project into an $11 billion company by 2025, with 4 million paying customers and adoption across more than half of Fortune 500 companies. Its modular block architecture lets users build everything from personal habit trackers to enterprise knowledge bases without code.