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Philippe Kahn Put a Camera in Your Pocket. Then He Kept Going.
A normal curve caught his eye in sixth grade. A newborn photo rewired visual culture. Between those moments, Philippe Kahn built a career by treating invention like music: practice daily, listen closely, and ship before the clock runs out.
Susan Irving Put Real Life on the Tissue Aisle
A former national-team sailor took over marketing at Kruger Products just as the tissue aisle became national news. Her response was to replace category polish with the useful, awkward truth of everyday life.
Tanguy Chau
Tanguy Chau is the Co-Founder and CEO of Paxton AI, a Palo Alto-based legal tech company building an AI-powered assistant for lawyers. A Belgian-born, MIT-trained chemical engineer who competed for Belgium in sailing and chemistry olympiads, Chau spent seven years as a venture capitalist at Formation 8 and Mayfield Fund before co-founding Paxton in 2022. Under his leadership, Paxton raised a $22M Series A in January 2025 (total $28M), achieved a 94% non-hallucination rate on the Stanford Legal Hallucination Benchmark, and grew 14x in monthly recurring revenue over nine months - serving clients from solo practitioners to the nation's 20 largest law firms.