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William H. Rinehart and the case of the disappearing suitcase
After helping build the networks that carried online video, William H. Rinehart turned to a more stubborn delivery problem: his own luggage. His career runs through the hidden work that makes something arrive on time.
Edgio ran out of time.
Edgio assembled the tools to make the internet faster, safer, and easier to run. Its bankruptcy revealed a second kind of latency: the distance between a promising strategy and a business that can pay for it.
Jeff Freund
Jeff Freund is the founder and CEO of Akoonu, a Salesforce-native software company that helps B2B sales teams run pipeline reviews and forecasts. A Stanford-trained engineer who studied environmental fluid mechanics, he previously spent more than a decade running Clickability, a web content management company he led from 1999 until its 2011 acquisition by Limelight Networks. He started Akoonu in 2014 around the idea that sales should be grounded in how buyers actually buy, raising an $8M Series A from Shasta Ventures in 2017 and steering the product toward AI-driven forecasting and revenue tools.