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King Nnamani Learned to Keep the Frame Open
A football prospect became a writer, photographer and producer by refusing to choose just one lane. His route from Nigeria to New York, then from a four-day Dubai trip to international assignments, rewards the wide-angle view.
The Hundred No’s That Built a Presentation Factory
Rick Enrico’s software pitch collected roughly 100 rejections. The compliment hidden inside those no’s became SlideGenius - a global agency built for the moment when the meeting matters more than the slides suggest.
The Agency That Learned to Sell the Poster Without Selling Out the Protest
Studio Number One turned Shepard Fairey’s inside-outside strategy into an agency: take the reach of commerce, add the urgency of a street poster, and make every surface carry the same idea.
The Agency That Put a Dragon Dance Around a Shoe
Modest was a 13-person creative company with a worldwide address book and an appetite for the strange detail. Its best work suggests a useful rule: when the brief is global, make the idea more specific - not less.
One Source Built a Marketing Firm by Saying No to Easy Money
The New Delhi consultancy began with personal savings, a borrowed name, and a refusal to buy editorial coverage. Its wager was simple: sell the business outcome first, then assemble the channels to reach it.
The Most Important Person in the Picture Is Not the Patient
Living in the Light has spent more than a decade making rare-disease stories less clinical and more human. Its method begins with a small but radical edit: move the diagnosis out of the center of the frame.
Envision Media and the art of getting the room to understand
A keynote, a booth and a brochure can tell three different stories by accident. Envision Media’s business is helping them tell one on purpose.
Deckhand Media makes the deck outlive the meeting
A keynote becomes a roadshow. A pitch becomes a campaign. Inside the San Francisco studio that designs for the second, third, and hundredth use.
M’idea Hub and the expensive life of a confusing slide
A presentation can look finished and still leave everyone doing extra work. M’idea Hub builds decks and reusable slide systems for the founders, investors, and teams caught in that gap.
Happy Creative Land Makes Room for a Dumpling
Yiying Lu’s studio turns cultural blind spots into pictures people want to use. Its trail runs from Twitter’s Fail Whale to the emoji keyboard, with a few well-dressed sushi warriors along the way.
Beautiful.ai Built a Presentation App That Tells You “No” - and 100,000 Businesses Said Yes
The PowerPoint challenger’s cleverest idea was not generating more choices. It was removing the bad ones - then selling that constraint as a faster way for teams to think in public.
Daniella Vallurupalli
Daniella Vallurupalli is the Vice President and Head of Global Communications at Cloudflare, the internet infrastructure and security company. She joined Cloudflare in 2014 when it had fewer than 80 employees and built its communications organization from the ground up. Today she oversees all internal and external communications across public relations, corporate and employee comms, analyst relations, social media, and visual storytelling for one of the most recognized brands in cloud networking and cybersecurity.
Coco Mao
Coco Mao is the CEO and co-founder of OpenArt AI, the creative platform that grew from a viral Hacker News post about AI image prompts to $70M+ ARR with just 20 people. A Carnegie Mellon computer scientist who spent seven years at Google building search products and the Tangi short-form video app, she left in 2022 to co-found OpenArt with CTO John Qiao. Under her leadership, OpenArt scaled 7x in 2025, reached 8 million monthly active users, raised a $30M Series A from Canaan Partners, and launched One-Click Story — a feature that lets anyone turn a single sentence into a complete video with persistent characters.
Johnny Harris
Johnny Harris is an Emmy-winning American journalist, filmmaker, and YouTuber with over 7.5 million subscribers, known for visually-driven explainer videos on geopolitics, history, and international affairs. A former Vox senior producer and creator of the acclaimed 'Borders' documentary series, Harris left legacy media in 2020 to build an independent journalism operation that now employs 30+ people. In February 2026, he and his wife Iz co-launched Newpress, an algorithm-free creator journalism platform designed to give audiences a direct role in the journalism process.