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InVision made design click. Then the workflow moved on.
A clickable mockup helped InVision turn design feedback into a business valued at $1.9 billion. Its rise and shutdown reveal how quickly a useful step can become an extra step.
Business Models Inc. and the factory that became a classroom
A pipe maker wanted a new factory. Business Models Inc. helped it see a different opportunity: teach the people fitting the pipes. Inside a consultancy that makes strategy answer to the customer.
Jamie Chen Knows the Best Systems Feel Like Magic
The professional magician turned revenue operator is building Lovable's go-to-market machinery around a disappearing act: less administration, more time for people.
Andrey Khusid Put the Whiteboard in a Browser. Then the World Caught Up.
A boy who rehearsed newspaper pitches at a tram stop built an infinite canvas for more than 100 million people. Fifteen years later, his neatest diagram has become his hardest decision.
You Can't Buy FigJam Without Buying Figma
Miro will sell a whiteboard to anyone for a few dollars and never mention the rest of its catalog. FigJam refuses to sell you anything unless you also buy a Figma seat. That one difference explains two very different companies.
The Whiteboard War Is Really a Budget War
Miro sells a room for collaboration. FigJam and monday.com sell a reason not to buy another room - and that changes how teams should choose.
The Whiteboard War Nobody Bought And Everybody Won
FigJam only stayed independent because a twenty billion dollar Adobe deal fell apart in 2023. Now it and Miro are fighting over the same blank canvas - and picking one says more about your team than the pricing page ever will.
Julien Bek
Julien Bek is a Partner at Sequoia Capital's London office, one of the most storied venture capital firms in the world. A Geneva native who studied at Warwick Business School and the University of Cambridge, he started his career as an entrepreneur — founding one of Europe's first e-cigarette companies at age 18 — before transitioning into venture capital at Global Founders Capital and then Accel Partners. At Accel he backed breakout companies like Revolut, Melio, Miro, and BeReal. He joined Sequoia in September 2023 as a London-based partner focused on early-stage European and global tech companies. In March 2026, he published the widely-read thesis 'Services: The New Software,' arguing that the next trillion-dollar company will sell outcomes rather than software tools, using AI to automate service delivery at scale.
Suzanne Holloway
Suzanne Holloway is the Operating Partner for Go-to-Market at Kleiner Perkins, one of Silicon Valley's most storied venture capital firms. A hands-on marketing leader who helped Miro scale from pre-Series A to a $17.5 billion valuation, she now advises Kleiner Perkins portfolio companies on building marketing strategies and high-performing teams. With deep roots in early-stage B2B startups - from Greenhouse Software to Zugata (acquired by Culture Amp) - Holloway brings rare operational credibility to a firm better known for writing checks than rolling up sleeves.
Brian Balfour
Brian Balfour is the founder and former CEO of Reforge, the professional development platform for experienced product, growth, and marketing practitioners that grew to 100,000+ alumni before being acquired by Miro in March 2026. Now Chief Growth Officer at Miro, he is best known for the Four Fits Framework - the thesis that Product-Market Fit alone cannot drive $100M+ growth, and that market, product, channel, and model must all interlock. A former VP of Growth at HubSpot, serial entrepreneur, and Venture Partner at Long Journey Ventures, Balfour is one of the most influential thinkers in the product-led growth movement.
Elena Verna
Elena Verna is one of Silicon Valley's most respected growth operators - a former SVP of Growth at SurveyMonkey, interim CMO at Miro, and current Head of Growth at Lovable (the AI app-builder that hit $200M ARR in under a year). Known for popularizing Product-Led Growth frameworks, she runs 'Elena's Growth Scoop' newsletter with 89,000+ subscribers and a 40% open rate, and is a Partner at Reforge. She immigrated from Russia at 14 with $100 and no English, and has built a career on the principle: 'I will figure it out.'