Pedro Arnt
He runs a Uruguayan company that generates more than a billion dollars in annual revenue, although many people use its services without knowing its name. Pedro Arnt is fine with that. Meanwhile, he keeps repeating a phrase t...
John Ternus
John Ternus earned the nickname Crash after an accident with his university’s milling machine. He came close to breaking the only machine of its kind available to the engineering students. Years later, by then an Apple executive, he told the story ag...
Ariel Szarfsztejn
Ariel Szarfsztejn does not know how to code, but one weekend he set about building, with the help of an artificial intelligence agent, a program to bring together his medical test results from the past fifteen years. He wanted to have them all in one...
Juan Manuel Baruffaldi
When he had to choose the subject of his thesis, Juan Manuel Baruffaldi thought about his father’s farm, a small operation in southern Santa Fe. Herbicide was applied across the entire field, even though weeds covered only 1...
Manuel Beaudroit
Bitcoin fell below $70,000 after reaching a peak of $125,000, in a decline whose speed puts it close to the steepest in its history. Manuel Beaudroit, CEO and co-founder of Belo—the Argentine crypto neobank with 3.4 million users across eleven countr...
Yuyo Llamazares Vegh
At twelve, Yuyo Llamazares Vegh was making beer with his grandfather in Buenos Aires. Some recipes required a liquid yeast they could not find. Years later, that difficulty resurfaced in his work: what they could produce depended on the supplies and ...
Gail Boudreaux
At 22, Gail Boudreaux moved to France to play basketball on a team where almost nobody spoke English. Four decades later, she runs Elevance Health, one of the largest healthcare companies in the United States, and has had to sit before Congress to ex...
Ted Sarandos
As a teenager, Ted Sarandos worked at a video store in Phoenix. What he enjoyed most was not watching movies for free, but recommending something to each customer that they probably would not have chosen on their own. Many years later, he ended up...
Jamie Dimon
Jamie Dimon was fired on a Sunday from the bank he had helped build. The board had already voted, and the press release was ready. Ten years later, that same bank needed a rescue, and Dimon was on the other side of the phone, running JPMorgan Chas...
Andy Jassy
Every Sunday during football season, Andy Jassy gets up early in Seattle and places an Amazon order: bagels and an assortment of chips, usually Ruffles. New York Giants games start at ten in the morning...
