
She built rockets, made a desk out of whatever the apartment could spare, and applied to Y Combinator four times. Now her company's first hardware has worked in orbit - one precise turn toward a future where spacecraft can pull over and refuel.

Before he taught AI to inspect customer conversations, Alex Marantelos learned operations by putting hundreds of artists onstage. Now the Intryc CEO is turning support quality from a tiny sample into a living system.

A Rhodes Scholar trained to study people and systems is now removing the fiddly parts from Minecraft creation. His wager is that the next game studio may begin with a sentence, a browser tab and a friend who wants to play.