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Jonathan Ronzio Has Never Seen a Lane He Couldn't Turn Into a Life
The Trainual co-founder has built his career by refusing the tidy choice between operator and artist, mountain and meeting, systems and surprise. His secret is not balance. It is combination.
The North Face
The North Face is an American outdoor apparel, footwear, and equipment brand founded in San Francisco in 1966. Now a subsidiary of VF Corporation, it designs technical gear for climbers, hikers, skiers, and everyday adventurers - from the Nuptse and Denali jackets to Summit Series expedition kit - alongside a large lifestyle business, and generated roughly $3.7 billion in revenue in fiscal 2025. Its 'Never Stop Exploring' tagline anchors both a product philosophy and impact programs like the Explore Fund.
Evan Kaplan
Evan Kaplan is the CEO of InfluxData, the company behind InfluxDB - the world's most popular open-source time series database with over 1.3 million developers. With nearly 20 years in CEO roles across multiple companies, he took InfluxData from a scrappy open-source project of 3,000 users to a platform handling billions of data points per second for 1,900+ enterprise customers. His path to the C-suite ran not through computer science but through environmental science degrees and years spent as a mountain guide in his late 20s - an unconventional origin story that shows up in how he thinks about resilience and long-term endurance.