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Paul Lwin and the Problem of a Thousand Boats
A refugee childhood, a Navy cockpit, and a detour through golf software brought Paul Lwin to an unusual question: how much machinery can one person usefully command? At HavocAI, he is putting the answer on the water.
Jeff Russell and the art of making yourself less necessary
Jeff Russell built an accounting business around letting other people do their best work. From a Yale classroom to Jitasa and KeepingCount, his career keeps returning to the same question: what should you hand over?
Nick Callegari and the wall that carries its own builder
The son of a Florida construction worker went from spacecraft structures to a housing startup. At Verustruct, Nick Callegari is developing robots that climb the walls they build - with the aim of making a home easier to afford.
Brian Murray and the business of staying put
From Peace Corps service in Bulgaria to factory workshops in Kensington, Brian Murray has built a real estate career around a difficult question: who gets to stay when a neighborhood starts to prosper?
Joel Podolny
Joel Podolny is an economic sociologist turned operator who has spent his career on a single question: how do people actually learn to lead? Handpicked by Steve Jobs in 2008 to build Apple University from scratch, he spent over a decade teaching Apple's executives to think like the company. Before that he was the youngest dean of the Yale School of Management and a tenured professor at Stanford and Harvard. Today he is co-founder and CEO of Honor Education, a San Francisco startup putting human connection at the center of online learning.