Before he became MindFi’s CEO, Leon CK Leong helped build a business in a 90-square-foot university office. His career keeps returning to a deceptively practical question: what happens after people connect?

Before workplace software became his brief, Leon Leong was building online communities from a 90-square-foot university incubator. Two exits and one Y Combinator batch later, his durable product is a way of turning trust into infrastructure.