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Ross Buhrdorf and the year off that lasted ten months
After helping build HomeAway, Ross Buhrdorf tried taking a year off. Ten months later, he was back at work, this time building ZenBusiness for people trying to start something of their own.
The Marketing Operator Trying to Make Business-Building Feel Calmer
Zachary Rippstein spent two decades learning how intent becomes action. At ZenBusiness, he is applying that lesson to a harder conversion: turning an aspiring entrepreneur’s uncertainty into a workable next step.
Lamine Zarrad
Lamine Zarrad is the founder and CEO of StellarFi, an Austin-based fintech that reports everyday bill payments to the three major credit bureaus so Americans with thin or no credit files can build a score without taking on debt. A refugee from Soviet-era Azerbaijan who sold pirated VHS tapes in a Moscow chemical lab as a teenager, he went on to serve in the Marine Corps, work as a National Bank Examiner at the OCC, and build three fintech startups in a decade. StellarFi raised a $15M Series A in March 2023 led by Acrew Capital, and its members average a 26-point credit-score jump in their first month.