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Alessandro Sordi and the architecture of a second act
After Dada, Alessandro Sordi began again with two longtime friends. At Nana Bianca, the architect turned entrepreneur is helping founders build companies - and giving Florence more reasons to look forward.
Yuji Ueda and the company built to let people leave
He founded Gaiax at 24 and took it public at 30. Then Yuji Ueda began making room for an unusual kind of growth: employees becoming founders, with the company helping them go.
Arnaud Mournetas wants to make the stock exchange fit the factory
He co-founded Redstart to help people build companies. With Lise, Arnaud Mournetas is working on the next obstacle: giving smaller businesses a stock market they can actually use.
Michael Jones and the business of belonging
From chat windows to Myspace to Liquid Death, the Science co-founder keeps returning to one question: how does a product earn a place in someone’s life?
Tom Chavez and the Problem With Being Three Years Early
He helped companies make better use of customer data. Now the Ketch co-founder wants people to have a say in what happens to it - and has learned how long a good idea can wait for its customers.
Tom Walker and the value of the backyard
Tom Walker built Rev1 Ventures around a practical idea: a region's next companies need the customers, expertise, and capital already close at hand. Now at R1 Capital, he is carrying that approach into a new chapter.
Breanden Beneschott and the company that builds companies
A hiring problem helped bring Toptal into being. Now Breanden Beneschott is trying to make the next company easier to build than the last.
John Borthwick and the four-hour trip to the future
In 1993, John Borthwick drove to MIT to use a web browser. Three decades later, the Betaworks founder is still looking for the interface that changes what people can do.
Fred Valente and the business of starting again
A costly early lesson taught the eMotion Studios co-founder to test before building. From Belo Horizonte to Florida, his career now connects animation, digital rights and the businesses behind online creators.
Ashley Seehusen and the education of a founder
An engineer who moved into marketing, built a company, and crossed into venture capital, Ashley Seehusen now helps other founders prepare for the work ahead. At Santé Accel, company building begins with people.
Peter Day
Peter Day is a General Partner at super{set}, San Francisco's AI-native startup studio and venture fund, where he co-builds data and AI companies from day one. A machine learning PhD from the University of Liverpool who spent 12 years in quantitative finance before pivoting to Silicon Valley, Peter served as Chief Product and Technology Officer at Quantcast for nearly seven years, guiding the company's real-time ML platform used by marketers and publishers globally. He brings a rare combination of deep technical credibility — hands-on coding, ML research, financial engineering — and operational leadership at scale to the companies he helps found and grow at super{set}.
Craig Swanson
Craig Swanson is a Seattle-born serial entrepreneur who co-founded CreativeLive with photographer Chase Jarvis in 2010, helping build the platform into a $60M-backed live-streaming education company that served 10 million creators before being acquired by Fiverr. Now based in San Francisco and working as CEO of a stealth-mode startup, Swanson has spent his career operating quietly behind high-profile brands - turning influencers and educators into multimillion-dollar businesses while accumulating $92.5 million in digital goods sold across all ventures.
Igor Repeta
Igor Repeta is the CEO of Empat Tech, a Kyiv-based software development and outsourcing firm with nearly 200 engineers serving clients across 17 countries. He rose from Project Manager to Chief Executive Officer in four years, formally taking the helm in February 2026 after co-authoring the company's operational playbook as COO. Empat ranked #5 globally on the Clutch 100 Fastest-Growing Companies list in 2026 and holds back-to-back #1 Best IT Employer rankings in Ukraine (DOU 2024 and 2025). Beyond commercial growth, Repeta launched two civic tech projects during Russia's invasion of Ukraine: RevengeFor, a military fundraising platform channeling funds to ComeBackAlive, and HealUA, a peer-to-peer medical consultation platform for Ukrainian doctors.
Karthik Srinivasan
Karthik Srinivasan is the CTO of Studio at Forum Ventures, the AI venture studio co-building the next generation of B2B companies from concept to company. With 20+ years of product engineering across Travelocity, Getty Images, and his own startup Pixibo, Karthik brings a rare hybrid of hands-on builder instinct and startup architect thinking to a studio that has already launched 17 companies - helping domain experts turn ideas into fundable businesses at sprint speed without the usual technical debt hangover.