57 Companies with $1M+ MRR
Learn from founders and CEOs who have built businesses generating $1M+ in monthly recurring revenue

Mark Shapiro
President and CEO
How I'm building a sustainable winning culture in Major League Baseball through people-first leadership and data-driven decision making.

Morgan DeBaun
Founder
How I built a digital media powerhouse focused on Black culture and created a platform that amplifies diverse voices.

Travis Kalanick
Co-founder & Former CEO
How I revolutionized transportation by digitizing the physical world and turning a simple idea into a global tech giant.

Debra Crew
CEO of Diageo
How I'm transforming Diageo's culture and driving innovation in the spirits industry through data-driven decision making and balanced leadership.

Tom Bilyeu
Co-founder & Former CMO
How I turned $10,000 and a home-made protein bar recipe into a $1 billion business by focusing on community and value over profits.

Iman Ghadzi
Founder & CEO
From intense hustle to strategic scaling: How I built a multi-million dollar business by turning personal expertise into digital products.

Zach Yadegari
Founder
How I built an AI-powered calorie tracking app that disrupted the fitness industry and scaled to $24M in yearly revenue.

Indra Nooyi
Former CEO
Indra Nooyi led PepsiCo through a period of unprecedented growth, pioneering a focus on health conscious products and sustainable development.

Michael Truell
Co-Founder & CEO
Michael Truell is the co-founder and CEO of Anysphere, the company behind Cursor an AI native code editor built for professional developers. Under his leadership, Cursor became one of the fastest growing AI tools in devtech.

Verun Mohan
Co-Founder & CEO
Verun is the co-founder and CEO of Windsurf, an AI‑powered IDE that brings agentic capabilities to developers. Under Verun’s leadership, Windsurf has rapidly become a go‑to platform for building and iterating on code with AI.

Steven Rinella
Founder & CEO
Steven is the founder and CEO of MeatEater, a media company and outdoor lifestyle brand. Known for his honest storytelling and conservationist ethos, Steven has grown MeatEater into a multi-channel powerhouse with books, shows, and gear for outdoor enthusiasts.

Ben Mann
Tech Lead, Product Engineering
Ben, Tech Lead for Product Engineering at Anthropic, has played a pivotal role in scaling AI products with a deep focus on safety and alignment. From leaving OpenAI to co-founding Anthropic’s culture of mission driven growth, his journey is one of strategic leadership and foresight in a rapidly evolving industry.

Alex Hormozi
Founder & CEO
Alex Hormozi, founder of Acquisition.com, scaled businesses past $100M+ in revenue by focusing on volume, consistency, and value creation. Known for his no-nonsense frameworks, Alex helps entrepreneurs avoid common traps while building long-term wealth.

Hayes Barnard
Founder & CEO
Hayes Barnard, founder of GoodLeap, scaled his company into a multibillion-dollar platform by focusing on resilience, ethical choices, and building value in hard markets. Known for his story of overcoming adversity, Hayes inspires entrepreneurs with lessons on leadership, purpose, and perseverance.

David Mizrahi
Founder & CEO
High school dropout to hospitality leader: David Mizrahi turned a failing shawarma shop into a fast growing group behind Salt Steakhouse, LBK Grill, Soya, Pepe Kitchen, Salt Market, and Bubby’s Bagels. His playbook: customer first service, responsible growth, and hands on leadership.

Dan Martell
Founder
Dan Martell built, scaled, and exited multiple SaaS companies, then reinvented himself as one of the leading coaches and investors for founders worldwide. His approach blends gratitude, flow, and systems with tactical growth strategies.

Marc Rowan
CEO & Co-Founder
Marc Rowan co-founded Apollo Global Management and grew it into one of the largest alternative investment firms in the world. He believes the future of investing is not only in equities but also in private markets, which now underpin most of the economy. His mission is to open these markets to individuals, create better diversification, and redefine wealth management.

Christine Hutter
CEO & Founder
Christine Hutter, a trained watchmaker and entrepreneur, founded Moritz Grossmann in Glashütte. She built the brand from scratch into one of the most respected independent watch manufacturers in Germany, combining traditional craftsmanship with useful innovation. Her leadership philosophy blends patience, independence, and a deep respect for horological heritage.

Rishi Das
Co-founder & CEO
Rishi Das is a serial entrepreneur who helped shape India’s talent story with CareerNet and later co-founded IndiQube to redefine flexible workspaces. His approach blends ecosystem thinking, employee-centric design, and frugal innovation, doing more with less while building sustainable growth across India’s tier-2 and tier-3 cities.

Sadi Khan
Co-founder & CEO
Sadi Khan, co-founder and CEO of Aven, is building a fintech that allows homeowners to access cheaper credit by combining home equity and credit card models. After leaving Facebook, he set out to attack America’s persistent credit card interest crisis with technology and conviction.

Mati Staniszewski
Co-founder & CEO
Mati Staniszewski is the CEO and co-founder of ElevenLabs, a $6.6B voice AI company redefining how humans and machines communicate. With a background in technology and product innovation, Mati has built a voice ecosystem where anyone can clone their voice, create agents, and even earn passive income merging AI ethics, scalability, and creativity into a single frontier.

Mani Vembu
CEO
Mani Vembu is the CEO of Zoho Corporation, a billion dollar SaaS company that remains proudly private after nearly three decades of innovation. Known for its culture of experimentation, long term thinking, and deep commitment to talent creation, Zoho has redefined what it means to scale responsibly while staying true to its roots in India.

Phong Lee
President & CEO
Phong Lee leads Strategy’s twin engines: a Bitcoin-backed capital stack and a mature enterprise analytics business. His playbook is simple: build for the customer first, ship with conviction, and let time do the compounding.

Dan Moorehead
Founder & CEO
Dan Moorehead runs a crypto-first macro shop. His method is simple: find asymmetric trades, size so you can hold through 85% drawdowns, and let time and network effects do the compounding.

Vlad Tenev
Co-founder & CEO
Vlad Tenev is turning Robinhood into a financial super app by staying on the frontier of 24-hour equities, crypto as infrastructure, prediction markets, and AI tools like Cortex, while keeping revenue growing fast and costs under control.

Alex Karp
Co-founder & CEO
Alex Karp has spent two decades building Palantir as a “freak show” that breaks every playbook: flat hierarchy, radical meritocracy, deep ties to the U.S. military, and a culture that treats product building more like art than enterprise software.

Dave Ricks
Chair & CEO
Dave Ricks is leading Eli Lilly through the GLP-1 boom and an AI-powered R&D shift, trying to compress drug discovery timelines while keeping a hard focus on safety, access, and real-world outcomes.

Tan Su Shan
Group CEO & Director
Tan Su Shan is leading DBS through a volatile macro cycle, pushing diversification, AI-enabled banking, and digital assets while trying to keep the bank dependable and human at the same time.

Anthony Denier
Group President & U.S. CEO
Anthony Denier is leading Webull through its first years as a public company, building an AI-enabled global brokerage for sophisticated retail investors while trying to stay nimble, transparent, and close to the everyday trader.

Garry Ridge
Chairman Emeritus, Former CEO & Founder of The Learning Moment
Garry Ridge led WD-40 Company for 25 years, turning a simple blue-and-yellow can into a multi-billion-dollar global brand and a 93% engagement “tribe,” using servant leadership, learning moments, and radical humility as his playbook.

David Baszucki
Founder & CEO, Roblox
David Baszucki turned a simple 3D physics experiment into Roblox, a global platform with hundreds of millions of users, by trusting his gut, chasing virality, and repeatedly rebuilding the product and himself as a leader.

Greg Marcus
President & CEO, The Marcus Corporation
Greg Marcus grew up in a 90-year-old family business and helped steer The Marcus Corporation through streaming, pandemics, and generational change by holding to Ben’s commandments, owning real estate, betting on community, and turning moviegoing into a two-hour vacation with recliners, burgers, and a familiar face on the screen.

Satya Nadella
Chairman & CEO, Microsoft
Satya Nadella thinks in decades, not quarters. He sees AI as the next big platform shift after PC, web, mobile, and cloud, and is willing to invest tens of billions into a fungible AI fleet because Microsoft already earns at scale. His leadership mixes long-term vision, careful risk management, and a strong focus on inclusion and real-world impact.

Marc Boroditsky
Chief Revenue Officer, Nebius
Marc Boroditsky is the revenue leader behind Nebius’ explosive rise as a full-stack AI infrastructure company. He combines old-school enterprise discipline with startup hunger, pushing hard on margins, execution, and deep partnerships. His playbook is simple: win premium AI workloads, move faster than rivals on land and power, and let an elite engineering culture do the talking.

Doug McMillon
President & CEO, Walmart Inc.
Doug McMillon is the long-time Walmart insider who turned the world’s largest retailer into a people-led, tech-powered giant. He pushes hard on culture, margins, and reinvention, betting billions on wages, e-commerce, and AI while still keeping prices low and growth steady.

Karan Virwani
MD & CEO, WeWork India
Karan Virwani is the second-generation entrepreneur who turned WeWork India into the country’s largest premium flexible workspace operator. He blends Embassy Group discipline with startup scrappiness, betting on metros, multinationals, and top-tier Indian companies while staying ruthless on unit economics, culture, and long-term demand.

Dharmesh Shah
Co-founder & CTO, HubSpot
Dharmesh Shah is the engineer-founder who turned HubSpot into a multibillion SaaS platform while quietly blogging his way to the top of SEO. Now he is pushing the shift from search engine optimization to answer engine optimization, building agents, tools, and side projects with the same quiet, obsessive intensity.

Sundar Pichai
CEO, Google
Sundar Pichai is the engineer-turned-CEO leading Google through what he calls an extraordinary AI inflection point, balancing trillion-dollar infrastructure bets with safety, climate, and long-term societal impact.

Neil Patel
Co-founder, NP Digital
Neil Patel is the marketer-turned-operator who rode the SEO wave early, built a $100M agency, and is now obsessed with practical ways to win in the AI gold rush with small, focused teams.

Ryan Serhant
Founder and CEO, SERHANT.
Ryan Serhant is the founder CEO behind SERHANT., building a content to commerce real estate company powered by education and an AI operating system, while balancing public visibility with the private weight of leadership.

Robert Kyncl
CEO, Warner Music Group
Robert Kyncl is the CEO of Warner Music Group, bringing an operator mindset to music as pricing shifts, AI accelerates change, and scale becomes a bigger advantage for artists and rights holders.

Fabricio Bloisi
CEO, Prosus and Naspers
Fabricio Bloisi leads Prosus and Naspers with a founder mindset focused on building the next Tencent, scaling consumer platforms across Europe, India, and Latin America, and using AI to move faster, serve more partners, and create new global tech leaders outside the US and China.

Patrick Kelleher
CEO, GXO Logistics
Patrick Kelleher leads GXO Logistics with a sharp focus on organic growth, North America expansion, and tech-driven execution. He explains why GXO’s pure-play model moves faster, how automation and AI increase productivity and stickiness, and why performance culture and feedback habits matter when scaling 1200+ operations across global markets.

James Dyson
Founder, Dyson
James Dyson built Dyson by turning repeated failure into a prototyping system. He explains how engineering-first decisions, strong IP, and manufacturing discipline create premium products, and why long-term category leadership comes from solving real problems, not chasing trends.

Alice Bentinck
Co-founder and CEO, Entrepreneurs First
Alice Bentinck runs Entrepreneurs First like a product company, built on investing in people before they have an idea. She shares how EF survived early uncertainty, why co-founder productivity matters more than likability, and how moving fundraising to San Francisco doubled valuations and sped up revenue by forcing a faster customer-driven pace.

Fred Thiel
Chairman and CEO, MARA Holdings
Fred Thiel leads MARA with a power-first mindset: treat land and electrons as a portfolio of assets. He explains why Bitcoin sold off in a risk-off cascade, how leverage and whale moves amplify fear, and why miners should earn optionality by pairing low-cost energy with modular infrastructure for Bitcoin and inference AI.

Brian Schimpf
Co-founder and CEO, Anduril Industries
Brian Schimpf leads Anduril through rapid scale, doubling revenue year over year while reshaping defense around autonomy, speed, and software-driven production. He shares lessons on leadership, talent, accountability, and building systems designed for the future battlefield.

Jeremy Allaire
Co-founder and CEO, Circle
Jeremy Allaire leads Circle in building internet-native financial infrastructure through USDC and programmable digital money. He shares lessons on long-term vision, regulation, leadership, and how stablecoins, AI, and software platforms are reshaping the global financial system.

Salim Ramji
CEO, Vanguard
Salim Ramji leads Vanguard into a new era focused on technology, client-first investing, and long-term value creation. He shares insights on modernizing asset management, responsible AI adoption, leadership transitions, and preserving trust while innovating at massive scale.

Kaveh Ofogh
Founder & CEO, Medico
Kaveh Ofogh is a physician-founder leading Medico with a mission to deliver constitutionally sound, proactive correctional healthcare. He shares insights on staffing, leadership, accountability, and how strong management systems improve outcomes for patients, employees, and communities.

Garrett Lord
Co-founder & CEO, Handshake
Garrett Lord is the co-founder and CEO of Handshake, a career network powering millions of students and employers. He shares lessons on resilience, hiring, culture, scaling leadership, and building with Olympic-level standards.

David Lee
Co-founder & CEO, Nex
David Lee is the co-founder and CEO of Nex, the company behind Nex Playground, a camera-based family gaming system redefining living-room play through active games, subscriptions, and thoughtful hardware design.

Tom Halverson
CEO, CoBank
Tom Halverson is CEO of CoBank and a member of the Brookings–AEI Commission on Rural Prosperity, bringing decades of global finance experience to strengthening rural America.

Howard Chan
CEO & CIO, Kurv
Howard Chan is CEO of Kurv, an investment firm known for active option income strategies that focus on NAV stability, disciplined risk management, and sustainable income.

Pärtel Tomberg
CEO & Co-founder, Bondora
Pärtel Tomberg is the CEO and co-founder of Bondora, a European fintech company focused on simple investing, fair consumer credit, and long-term financial stability.

Vikram Pandit
Former CEO, Citigroup
Vikram Pandit is a global finance leader and former CEO of Citigroup, known for leading large institutions through crisis, transformation, and long-term restructuring.

Paul Guyett
Managing Director
Paul Guyett leads Leffler Leather, a multi-generation business built on quality, knowledge, and adaptation. He focuses on craftsmanship, education, and long-term value across the leather industry.