
At Nerdery, Mike Derheim helped give every employee the title of co-president. His career since has taken the same question into classrooms, farm technology and a Wisconsin vineyard: what happens when more people get to build?

Before Nerdery had a name, Mike Schmidt and Luke Bucklin had a client to meet. More than two decades later, the co-founder and CEO is revisiting a harder question: how should the people building software work together?