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Eli Allen and the Art of Cutting the Right Corners
Curtsy began with crowded closets, college formals and a small Mississippi grant. Eli Allen supplied the code - and a lasting taste for the useful shortcut.
Karine Terzibachi Is Betting the Next Storefront Will Be a Conversation
The engineer-turned-operator has spent her career translating complicated systems into ordinary behavior. At Attentive, she wants to turn the humble message thread into a place where commerce can actually converse.
Amitaabh Malhotra Has Spent 30 Years Making the Checkout Disappear
From a networked driving simulator to an iPhone payment sleeve to face, palm and voice authentication, his career follows one stubborn idea: useful technology should remove a step, not add one.
Dre Madden Has Been Building Trust Networks Since Before Social Media
Before Real had tens of thousands of agents, Dre Madden learned a durable lesson in a San Francisco bar: trusted networks can travel farther than paid messages. Two decades later, that idea still shapes how she builds brands.
Robert Frederick
Robert Frederick is the founder, CEO and President of Sirqul, Inc., a Seattle IoT company built around an Engagement-as-a-Service platform of hundreds of APIs and patented edge devices. An MIT Media Lab alum and TR35 honoree with 41 issued patents, he helped launch Amazon Anywhere and co-founded Amazon Web Services and the AWS Marketplace before scaling the voice startup Snapvine past 5 million users. He is also an author and music producer.
Ron Faith
Ron Faith is the President and CEO of RBC Signals, a Redmond, Washington company that runs a global ground station network letting satellite operators downlink data on demand instead of building their own dishes. A serial entrepreneur who launched Apple's first standalone internet product in the mid-1990s, ran mobile commerce at Qpass, and led cloud data-protection startup Datacastle to an acquisition by Carbonite, he returned to his aerospace roots in 2019 and took the top job in January 2024. He pairs a Dartmouth engineering-and-philosophy double major with a University of Washington master's spent researching frequency selective surfaces for Boeing.