
Before biotech, there were bank counters, training rooms, alumni reunions and a mobile spa. Naaz Ali's career is a study in how operational craft turns many moving parts into a place where people can do serious work together.

A cafeteria conversation became a nine-year lesson in automotive patience. Hyunggi Cho built Phantom AI around the unfashionable idea that the road to autonomy begins with driver assistance people can actually use.
A bruising highway demo exposed the gap between autonomy theater and dependable safety. Phantom AI spent the next eight years making the less glamorous bet - affordable software that can see a pedestrian, fuse a radar return and help an ordinary vehicle stop.