Before she became FIGS’ CEO, Trina Spear spent weekends selling scrubs from a car. Her second career began with a deceptively ordinary question: why did work clothes get so little thought?

An engineer learned finance, a scientist sketched an audacious idea, and a married pair funded the first experiment themselves. Ten years later, Krish Krishnan is still treating the IPO as the beginning, not the arrival.

Julie Iskow is the President and CEO of Workiva, the cloud platform behind a lot of the world's regulatory, ESG, and financial reporting. A Bay Area engineer who spent her first decade in robotics and automation, she scaled SaaS companies through IPOs and acquisitions before taking over from Workiva's founder in April 2023.