Finance Industry

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

Building a real-time price data network for DeFi applications.

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.

Sam Stoffel built a multi million pound subscription business teaching match betting strategies, exited for £10M, and now leads Subspot Shopify for subscriptions. His playbook: ethics over easy volume, focus over distraction, and cash buffers over bravado.

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.

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.

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 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 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.

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 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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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