
Before TigerGraph’s public launch, Yu Xu spent five years building a database designed to follow connections at scale. His journey runs from a payroll system in Hunan to Twitter, TigerGraph and a new chapter at Databricks.
After years building enterprise software businesses, Todd Blaschka now helps founders ask harder questions about their customers, their sales forecasts and themselves. His favorite place to start is where optimism meets the purchase order.

From SAP cloud applications to social listening and graph AI, Paige Leidig has built a career translating complicated technology into a reason to care. His method is brisk, curious and unusually consistent: listen to customers, find the relationship, then make it useful.

After years building products at Google, NICE inContact, Rackspace, and Satmetrix, TigerGraph’s CEO has a deceptively simple thesis: intelligence gets useful when it understands relationships.