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Peter Barrick Flew Jets. Now He Is Teaching a Pea to Crunch.
The Rivalz CEO traded a cockpit for the snack aisle, then compressed 500,000 possible experiments into 71 useful ones. His playbook is equal parts calm, constraint and a cheerful appetite for difficult terrain.
Peter Brooks Is Building a Water Company With No Exit Clock
A Marine deployment, a Fulbright year in India and a string of unglamorous water jobs led Peter Brooks to an unusual business idea: buy the companies that keep water moving, then keep them for decades.
Ryan Maher Found a $22 Billion Problem Hiding in the Service Lane
A stale recall notice, a list of 42 VINs and one profitable experiment sent a third-generation dealer back to the car business - this time to make the software disappear and the appointments show up.
AJ Altman
AJ Altman is the founder and CEO of Hover, a San Francisco-based proptech company that turns smartphone photos into precise 3D models of homes - used by contractors, insurers, and homeowners to measure, design, and estimate renovation projects. A U.S. Marine Corps veteran and computer engineer by training, Altman left Intel at 29 to serve as an infantry officer before channeling military-grade geospatial mapping technology into a commercial platform that has raised over $146M and reached a $490M post-money valuation. Hover's platform now replaces five separate contractor apps and is backed by some of the country's largest insurance carriers.