
Before LottieFiles, Kshitij Minglani helped connect homebuyers with builders and learners with lessons. His next undertaking began with Saturday cafe gatherings - and grew around the awkward business of getting an animation onto a screen.

An Apple assignment brought three future founders together. Jen Lucero helped turn that working friendship into We Are Royale, then built a career around the people and production behind the pictures.

Chris Do is a Vietnamese-American designer, Emmy-winning creative director, and founder of The Futur - an educational platform on a mission to teach 1 billion people how to make a living doing what they love. He fled Vietnam as a toddler on April 30, 1975, built Blind into a $7M+ annual motion design studio serving Nike, Xbox, and Sony, then pivoted at 42 to education - amassing 2.7 million YouTube subscribers, 500K community members across 190 countries, and a $5,000/hour consulting rate. His philosophy: hard truths, gently told.