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Image Options knows when the wood should be real
For Tommy Hilfiger, Image Options built wood-veneer displays for flagship stores, then photographed the finish for a wider rollout. Inside the company that makes a design survive its budget, its materials, and opening day.
BASE4 - Architects, Engineers, Designers
A Boca Raton firm decided architecture should behave more like a factory than an atelier - so it wired together designers on four continents into a 24-hour workday and pointed the whole thing at one goal: build faster and cheaper.
Matthew Darrow
Matthew Darrow is the CEO and co-founder of Vivun, the pioneer of AI-powered presales software that has raised $131 million to transform how B2B companies manage their sales engineering function. A former VP at Zuora who witnessed its growth from $7M to $200M ARR and through IPO, Darrow conceived Vivun during a campervan trip through New Zealand, coding the first version from campsite Airbnbs alongside his wife Dominique. Today, Vivun's platform serves customers like Snowflake, Seismic, ADP, and Autodesk, with clients reporting 37% gains in technical win rates and 31% shorter sales cycles.