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The banker who hated banks built a better one
She left a 20-year agency career, took a pay cut, and bet on a broken bank in the middle of a financial crisis. Fifteen years later, roughly 11 million people bank with the brand she built.
Garth Knutson Plays the Long Game - Then Moves the Budget
Aflac's CMO built his career connecting people, clients and ideas. Now he is showing how an old mascot stays useful: protect the memory structure, keep tinkering and know when conviction deserves real money.
Kara Nortman
Kara Nortman is a Princeton and Stanford MBA-educated venture capitalist who spent eight years at Upfront Ventures before pivoting to become the defining force in women's sports investment. She co-founded Angel City FC — the NWSL team that became the world's most valuable women's sports franchise at $250 million — and then launched Monarch Collective, the world's largest women's sports investment fund at $250 million. She was also in the room at IAC's Hatch Labs when a restaurant-reservation app called Cardify was reborn as Tinder.