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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.
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.