
After 35 years inside enterprise software's established institutions, John Schwarz started again in a rented Vancouver townhouse. The wager was simple: business data should answer a question before the questioner loses patience.

Before workforce software spoke the language of AI and predictive analytics, Robin Streit was already doing the slower work: making a complex product understandable. Her career is a study in range, patience and the quiet advantage of staying long enough to see a category change.

A talent algorithm in an intelligence unit gave Ben Reuveni the question. Getting lost inside IBM gave him the problem. Gloat is his decade-long attempt to make opportunity visible before good people have to leave to find it.