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The Printerless Printer Who Said Yes
VIVAS began by selling banners before it owned a printer. Fourteen years later, the San Francisco shop still runs on the same scarce material: a willingness to take the call, solve the physical problem and get the thing on the wall.
Super Color Digital knows the hard part comes after “Print”
A fabric wall is easy to admire. The color matching, metalwork, packing, and installation behind it explain what Super Color Digital actually sells.
Hill Design Found Its Canvas in the Club Newsletter
A Saratoga design agency helped give a golf association’s newsletter more room and a new look. The revealing detail: the client said the improvement came without additional membership revenue.
HYPERVSN Put a Screen on a Bicycle. Then It Made the Screen Disappear.
The London company turned a rejected bicycle-wheel ad into spinning LED displays used by Nike, Coca-Cola and the Sphere. Its real product is not a hologram so much as a carefully engineered interruption.
Jim Szafranski
Jim Szafranski is the CEO of Prezi, the visual communications platform used by over 100 million people worldwide and more than 100 Fortune 500 companies. A MIT computer scientist and Stanford MBA, he joined Prezi in 2015 as COO and rose to CEO in 2020, steering the company's pivot from presentation software to a full visual suite encompassing Prezi Present, Prezi Video, and Prezi Design. Before Prezi, he spent a decade at Fiberlink building MaaS360, a mobile enterprise cloud platform acquired by IBM in 2013. He is known for applying rigorous process frameworks — including OKRs and strategic foresight influenced by Intel's Andy Grove — to scale technology companies.