AI Industry

How I revolutionized transportation by digitizing the physical world and turning a simple idea into a global tech giant.

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

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 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.

The founder of Goyaz built a thriving jewelry brand rooted in affordability and aspiration. Starting from a single store with family support, she scaled Goya into a 19-store empire across 5 Indian states in just over two years.

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.

Roy Lee built Cluely, a desktop AI that sits over your computer, listens to meetings, reads your screen, and feeds you answers in real time. He embraces the ‘cheat on everything’ framing as a marketing edge, pairs viral short-form growth with product speed, and hires like owners with a large option pool.

Chetan Parikh left a chemical engineering career to build applied AI for healthcare. After exiting EZDI, he founded RAAPID to bring neuro-symbolic and agentic AI to risk adjustment and coding, aiming for trustworthy automation, fewer audits, and coders working at top of license.

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 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.

Dhanush Radhakrishnan is the founder of Clone Robotics, building musculoskeletal androids driven by fluidic artificial muscles. His thesis is simple: copy human anatomy one to one, pair it with modern deep learning, and you get human level strength, speed, and dexterity in a soft body at a cost that can scale.

Krishna Rangasayee is the founder of SiMa.ai, building a full-stack platform for “physical AI.” His focus is clear: run multimodal AI on a single chip under 10 watts, with easy software and strong security so real-world machines can see, hear, and reason at the edge.

Ant Wilson is the co-founder and CTO of Supabase, a backend cloud built around a transactional SQL database with auth, storage, and real time. His rule is simple: everything is secondary to helping the customer right now.

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.

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 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 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.

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 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 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.

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 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 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 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 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 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 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.

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 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 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 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.

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 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.