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Gina Ashe and the things a spreadsheet cannot see
She built ThirdChannel to see what happened after products reached the shop floor. Now Gina Ashe is working on community power, protected land, and the awkward business of getting people to try something new.
Michael Lagoni Put $300 on the Future of Shopping
He began with cold calls, a studio apartment and just enough money for a very short experiment. Six profitable years later, Michael Lagoni finally raised outside capital - and turned an improvised service business into a global retail-data platform.
Anthony Ferry Kept Rewriting the Checkout
A computer-science graduate turned a side-project crawler into a two-decade lesson in useful reinvention. Now Wayvia is betting that the next shopper may be software.
David Roger
David Roger is the cofounder and CEO of Hetal Retail, a New York-based startup that uses computer vision and a crowd of everyday shoppers to tell brands what is really happening on store shelves. Before Hetal, he co-founded and ran Felix Gray, the company that pushed blue light glasses into the mainstream and onto the shelves of Target, CVS and Best Buy before selling in 2023. A self-described generalist who lives at the intersection of analytical and creative, Roger turned the frustrations he felt as a brand operator - expensive, slow, unusable retail data - into the company he runs today.
Andy Ballard
Andy Ballard is the CEO and co-founder of Wiser Solutions, Inc., the San Mateo-based omnichannel retail intelligence platform he built through the 2017 merger of Quad Analytix and Mobee. A Harvard undergrad and Stanford MBA, Ballard spent nearly a decade at Hellman & Friedman where he sat on the boards of DoubleClick, Getty Images, Internet Brands, and Catalina Marketing before launching Quad Analytix in 2012. Today he leads a 510-person company that tracks billions of online and in-store data points for over 750 global brands and retailers, while also serving on the boards of Domino's Pizza and Etsy, and running Figtree Partners, his software-focused investment firm.