Ignoring Silicon Valley advice to build a $3B fintech unicorn (Mercury)
In the second Executive Function episode, Brett sits down with Ryan Lucas, VP of Design at Rippling. Before Rippling, Ryan led design at Retool and co-founded multiple startups, bringing a rare founder's perspective to design leadership. A trained industrial designer, Ryan traces the roots of modern software
In the first Executive Function episode, Brett sits down with Jeanne De Witt Grosser, Chief Operating Officer at Vercel. Before Vercel, Jeanne spent nearly a decade at Stripe, where she built and scaled global revenue teams and led product partnerships. In this conversation, she unpacks what separates good executives from
This special year-end episode of In Depth brings together the most inspiring moments from our 2025 conversations with founders. Across industries and company stages, founders walked us through how their companies actually got built: where the ideas came from, what nearly broke them and the decisions that quietly determined
