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Ian Brodie Built the Software Only After the Service Taught Him What to Build
Before Levanta became a funded creator-commerce platform, Ian Brodie learned the expensive difference between software people admire and software they will actually use. His second company grew from that scar tissue.
Simon Goodall Is Making the Car Payment Negotiable Again
The Caribou CEO has spent a career turning complicated marketplaces into simpler choices. His latest target is the monthly bill hiding in millions of driveways.
Seif Saghri Built a Perks Company Before Perks Became a Strategy
In 1999, employee perks were often a homemade list of deals. Seif Saghri turned that neglected HR chore into an online marketplace, spent 25 years widening its reach, then learned the founder’s last operating lesson: how to hand over the keys.
Chris Knape
Chris Knape is the CEO and co-founder of Rare Candy, a marketplace and toolkit for trading card collectors that has scanned more than five million cards. He spent a decade inside marketplaces and platforms - YouTube, Google Play, Thumbtack, Tempo - before turning a pandemic-era return to childhood card collecting into a venture-backed company built alongside Pokemon YouTuber Leonhart. Raised on a sailboat in the US Virgin Islands and trained at Dartmouth, BCG, and the youngest-manager ranks of early YouTube, he now spends his days authenticating, auctioning, and tracking the cards that nerds love.