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Jon Ferrara and the things we forget
A pile of concert tickets, a $5,000 software company, and a career spent keeping conversations from disappearing. For Nimble founder Jon Ferrara, remembering people has always been the point.
Michael Labate Put a Number on Trust - Now He Is Selling the AI Shift
Before enterprise AI became the boardroom’s favorite noun, Michael Labate was testing how trust travels through a sales organization. His career is a study in turning relationships into measurable systems - and then rebuilding those systems when the technology changes.
Cameron Brain Bet the Company on Your Most Underrated Media Channel
Before employee advocacy had a tidy category name, Cameron Brain was learning the awkward, useful truth behind it: companies have audiences, but people have relationships.
Mike Derezin
Mike Derezin is a technology executive and lifelong entrepreneur who became CEO of Teaching Strategies, an early-childhood education company, in May 2025. He spent nearly a decade at LinkedIn, where he helped launch and scale LinkedIn Sales Solutions (Sales Navigator) and later ran LinkedIn Learning Solutions, growing it into one of the largest professional-development platforms in the world. Before LinkedIn he founded companies including Porvenir and VoxPop, advised Fortune 500 firms as a Bain & Company consultant, and taught elementary-school computer classes in Oakland and Santiago, Chile.