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Kevin Ching and the value of a small obsession
A fondness for pocket-sized jade led Kevin Ching into a much larger world. The Christie’s Asia chairman has spent a career bringing collectors, cultures and objects into conversation.
Charles Stewart and the art of getting people through the door
A former banker now runs Sotheby’s. His most revealing challenge is persuading people that an auction house is somewhere they can simply walk into.
Jack Butcher
Jack Butcher is a British-born graphic designer and entrepreneur who turned a $58 bank balance into a $1M+ annual business by packaging visual thinking into a personal media brand called Visualize Value. A former advertising creative director for Bloomberg and SapientNitro, he left agency life in 2018 to build a one-person empire of minimalist black-and-white visuals that distill complex business and life concepts into a single image. His signature framework, 'Build Once, Sell Twice,' made productizing expertise into digital products a mainstream creator strategy. He extended this philosophy into the NFT space, launching Checks VV (which surpassed Bored Ape Yacht Club in daily trading volume) and Opepen Edition (with $240M+ in total trading volume), earning exhibitions at Christie's, Sotheby's, and Art Basel.