
A Harvard-trained lawyer lost a year and a half to her own immigration case. The experience helped turn Aizada Marat from a client waiting for answers into the co-founder of Alma.
A software career could have taken her away from Bishkek. Alla Klimenko helped build Mad Devs around a different possibility: bringing the work to the people, then making that work easier to understand.

First, he put London’s empty restaurants to work. Then a stubborn travel-app problem led the Boxo co-founder to a different kind of spare capacity: the apps people already use.