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Julia Nimchinski and the trouble with knowing the answer
She learned B2B marketing by doing the job before anyone could show her how. With Hard Skill Exchange, Julia Nimchinski has turned that experience into a business built around practice, practitioners, and increasingly difficult questions about AI.
Talent Is Built, Not Born
Daniel Coyle dismantles the myth of the lone genius and reveals the environments, mistakes and social sparks that turn ordinary practice into extraordinary skill.
Uplimit
Uplimit is an AI-native enterprise learning platform that helps companies upskill employees and customers at scale. Born from the online course startup CoRise, the company rebuilt itself around generative AI in 2023 and now offers purpose-built AI agents for skill-building, program management, and teaching support - automating course authoring, real-time feedback, and cohort management so a single team can train thousands of learners simultaneously. Led by ex-Coursera enterprise founder Julia Stiglitz, Uplimit reports course completion rates of 75-94%, far above typical e-learning, and serves customers including GE HealthCare, Kraft Heinz, Procore, Databricks, Gusto, and Clay.