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David Rich Has Spent 30 Years Marketing What Comes Next
From Kodak's digital turn to Adobe's subscription era and DTN's decision-grade data, David Rich has built a career translating technical change into a reason for customers to care.
John Dean
John Dean is the Cofounder and CEO of WindBorne Systems, a Redwood City, California-based company operating the world's largest constellation of autonomous long-duration weather balloons. A Stanford electrical engineering graduate and former intern at SpaceX, NASA, and Lyft, Dean co-founded WindBorne in 2019 out of Stanford's Student Space Initiative after breaking four world records as undergraduates. The company raised a $15 million Series A led by Khosla Ventures in 2024, and its WeatherMesh AI model surpassed Google DeepMind's GraphCast as the most accurate global weather forecasting model, running on a fraction of the compute power. WindBorne's balloons have flown into Hurricane Milton and have set a new benchmark for how atmospheric data is collected at scale.