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Brian Schimpf and the Art of Building Without a Reverse Gear
A student robot once drove into a wall because it could not reverse. Two decades later, the engineer behind it is running Anduril on the same essential wager: build, test, learn, and keep moving.
Liz Egan Builds Companies by Making Marketing Feel Like Something
She learned marketing on the job, helped take Yext public, and still insists the discipline cannot live by dashboards alone. At Chainguard, Liz Egan is putting a company builder’s instinct behind the quiet machinery of secure open source.
Sarah Franklin
Sarah Franklin is the CEO of Lattice, the people-management platform headquartered in San Francisco. A Virginia Tech-trained chemical engineer and biochemist, she spent 15+ years at Salesforce, where she built Trailhead into a movement and later served as President and Chief Marketing Officer before stepping into Lattice's top job in January 2024 to rewire HR for the AI era.
Jack Altman
Jack Altman co-founded Lattice in 2015, built it into a $3 billion HR software platform used by thousands of companies, then stepped down as CEO in 2023 to become a full-time investor. He raised two funds totaling $425 million under Alt Capital before joining Benchmark as a General Partner in February 2026 - one of venture's most storied and flat-structured firms. He is also a WSJ bestselling author, podcast host, and the younger brother of OpenAI co-founder Sam Altman.