
A boarding-school friendship, an accidental lesson at TechCrunch SF, and a library of tiny drawings turned Joon Cho's Stipop into infrastructure for digital feeling.

A drink with a mentor became a resignation six weeks later, then a nine-month build in a Venice house. A decade on, Michael DeGiorgio is still pursuing the same unfashionably practical idea: better software should give real-estate people more time to be human.

Before most people wanted games on a phone, Nanea Reeves helped build them. Now the TRIPP co-founder is asking a stranger question: what if the next interface could change not merely what you see, but how you arrive?