The strategy behind the headlines.

Palmer Luckey founded Oculus at 19 and sold it to Facebook for $2 billion. He was fired in 2017. He founded Anduril the same year. By 2026 Anduril is one of the most valuable private defence…

Aidan Gomez was 20 years old and interning at Google Brain when he became one of the eight authors of the transformer paper that reshaped modern AI. Six years later he co-founded Cohere with a…

Ali Ghodsi joined Databricks as VP of Engineering, took over as CEO in 2016, and turned the company from a Spark commercialisation vehicle into the defining data-lakehouse platform. Databricks…

Emmett Shear co-founded Justin.tv, which became Twitch — one of the defining consumer products of the 2010s. He ran OpenAI for four days in November 2023 during the board crisis. In 2024 he founded…

Aravind Srinivas co-founded Perplexity AI in 2022 with a specific thesis: the answer engine, not the link engine, was the next default. Three years later Perplexity is one of the most-cited AI…

Dario Amodei co-founded Anthropic in 2021 with his sister Daniela and five other OpenAI researchers. Five years later Anthropic is a top-three frontier lab and Claude is one of the most-used AI…