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Steve Fischer and the Business of Knowing Less
At DuckDuckGo, an engineering-trained dealmaker is making a commercial wager with unusual restraint: that a search business can grow without keeping a dossier on everyone who uses it.
Permutive Wants Publishers to Sell What They Know
Publishers know their readers. Too often, somebody else gets paid for that knowledge. Permutive is building the software to change the transaction - and now wants AI agents to handle more of the work.
Matt Luongo Keeps Building the Bitcoin He Was Promised
A pile of unwanted coffee cards led Matt Luongo to Bitcoin. A decade later, the Thesis* founder is still wrestling with the same question: how do you make digital money useful without turning it into another machine for middlemen?
Benjamin Muñoz Cerro Left Physics for a Startup - and Kept the Scientific Method
A homemade particle detector in Chiguayante led to Stanford, Harvard and a hard turn into software. Now the Velum Labs co-founder is running startup experiments with the habits of a physicist.
Daniel Barber Is Turning Privacy Into an Operating System
After years selling software built on customer data, Daniel Barber began asking a harder question: could a company map what it collects, honor what people ask, and make trust part of the machinery? DataGrail is his answer - and AI has made the question more urgent.