science-fiction-author
(4)
Alexis Patjane and the business hidden inside the delivery
He opened an online store promising delivery in 99 minutes. Then Alexis Patjane closed the store and built a company around the part his customers actually wanted.
Tal Klein Has Spent a Career Translating Machines Into Human Stories
He has marketed cloud security, workplace analytics and AI networking. He has also toured as a DJ and written a novel about teleportation. The connecting skill is translation.
Matt Casamassina Has Spent 30 Years Deciding What Gets Played
He helped turn late-night Nintendo obsession into IGN, taught the App Store how to talk about games, and built Rogue Games around a publisher’s recurring wager: taste. His parallel career as a novelist reveals what the résumés leave out.
Hannu Rajaniemi
Hannu Rajaniemi is a Finnish-born mathematical physicist who became a celebrated science fiction novelist and then a biotech CEO. He wrote the post-human heist novel The Quantum Thief, translated into more than 20 languages, and co-founded HelixNano, a synthetic-biology startup building an advanced mRNA platform aimed at programmable vaccines and personalized cancer therapies. He runs the company as co-founder and CEO while continuing to publish fiction.