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LinkedIn made being findable a business.
A public résumé looks simple. Put 1.3 billion professionals behind it, and you get a market for hiring, selling, learning, and being discovered.
Skype made distance cheap. Staying useful cost more.
Skype made a call across an ocean feel ordinary. Its rise, expensive changes of ownership, and final move to Teams reveal how easily a simple idea can become complicated.
Before the breakthrough, someone got curious.
Behind the Tech puts a microphone in front of the people who built our digital world. Microsoft’s Kevin Scott wants to know what made them start.
NetImpact Strategies and the Art of Keeping the Old Machine Running
Government software rarely gets the luxury of a clean slate. NetImpact Strategies has built a business around the less glamorous question: what can you improve while the mission keeps moving?
CoreWeave
The crypto-mining startup that became the picks-and-shovels supplier of the AI boom - renting Nvidia GPUs to the labs building the future, one megacluster at a time.
The internet's great résumé drawer has become a $19.8 billion market for work itself - part identity system, part hiring engine, part trade publication, and increasingly part AI assistant.
Microsoft Won by Learning to Stop Being Windows
For years, Microsoft treated Windows as the answer. Its second act began when it made Windows merely one answer - and turned the rest of the company into a machine for selling picks and shovels to everyone.
InfoBeans
InfoBeans is a publicly listed (NSE/BSE) digital transformation and product engineering company founded in Indore, India in 2000. With roughly 1,600 employees across India, the USA, Germany and the UAE, it designs, builds and manages enterprise-grade software and increasingly focuses on 'last-mile' AI delivery. It is a Salesforce Summit Partner and a ServiceNow partner recognized as APAC Transformation Partner of the Year, and reports that a large and growing share of its revenue now comes from AI-augmented software.
WorkSpan
WorkSpan is the leading partner ecosystem management platform, built to eliminate the 'Partner Complexity Tax' that prevents enterprise sales teams from leveraging strategic partnerships. Founded in 2015 by three IIT Bombay alumni, the platform connects 15,000 companies, manages $542B in co-sell pipeline, and has emerged as the #1 co-sell solution partner for AWS and Microsoft. With the 2025 launch of WorkSpan AI - deploying intelligent agents directly inside sellers' CRMs - the company is betting that the next decade of enterprise revenue growth runs through ecosystem partnerships, not just direct sales.