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Jordan Harrod Wants You in the Room Where AI Decisions Happen
A scientist who started explaining algorithms on YouTube now advises institutions, teaches the public and co-owns a creator platform. Her recurring question is simple: who gets to understand the technology before it shapes their life?
OBRIO’s Big Bet on the Business of Belief
With Nebula, the Ukrainian software company turned horoscopes into a marketplace for personal guidance. A $500,000 rebrand and a pending US subscription lawsuit put the price of trust at the center of its next chapter.
The Charger Company That Quietly Became an Energy Company
Anker started by selling a better phone charger on Amazon. Fourteen years later it is putting battery walls, robot vacuums, and solar systems in homes across 100-plus countries - and betting its next act is energy, not accessories.
Dave Wiskus
Dave Wiskus is the founder and CEO of Nebula, the creator-owned streaming service he launched in 2019 with a group of independent YouTubers, and of Standard, the talent company behind it. Before building a streaming platform pitched as an A24 for online video, he was a respected human interface designer who co-founded Q Branch with John Gruber and Brent Simmons to make the note-taking app Vesper. He also fronts the New York synth-rock band Airplane Mode and co-hosted the podcast Unprofessional.
Wendover Productions
Wendover Productions is the edutainment empire built by Sam Denby out of Aspen, Colorado. What started in 2015 as a one-person YouTube channel about how airlines route planes has metastasized into a multi-channel studio, a hit travel-competition show (Jet Lag: The Game), and a creator-owned streaming service (Nebula) where Denby now serves as Chief Content Officer. The throughline: take logistics, geography, and economics and make them feel like a thriller.