Jim Farley
At Toyota, he learned a Japanese rule that requires people to see problems with their own eyes before making a decision. He applied it by tearing down Chinese cars and discovered that Ford, the company ...
Sam Altman
Sam Altman describes himself as a lazy user. He does not want to configure anything, switch windows, or make a click he can avoid. Not long ago, ...
Ramón Laguarta
When Jim VandeHei brought him onstage, Ramón Laguarta opened with a joke. He had thought the audience was there to hear him until he saw that Matt Damon was also among the speakers. The conversat...
Raj Subramaniam
In 1991, Raj Subramaniam arrived at a job interview in Austin with a fairly specific concern. The United States was in a recession, he had just finished his MBA, and he did not have permanent res...
Anders Opedal
In the European autumn of 2021, Anders Opedal began looking at numbers that did not quite add up. It was the time of year when Europe usually fil...
Gustav Söderström
As a child, he was told that the atoms in his body renew themselves every seven years, and he could not stop thinking about it. Forty years later, he runs Spotify and wants to give 760 million people mo...
Sebastián Serrano
On Sunday, October 26, 2025, Argentina was holding legislative elections, and not much was happening at Ripio. Sebastián Serrano remembers it in a much more graphic way: “Tumbleweeds were rolling.” ...
Santiago Sosa
He used to get to the São Paulo office for less than seven reais. He had founded the company from a university project that had not worked out and still watched every dollar as if it were the last one. Today, around $3 billio...
Vas Narasimhan
Newly appointed CEO of one of the world's largest pharmaceutical companies, he spent twelve hours stranded at Dublin Airport waiting for a Ryanair flight. He still tells the story of that afternoon.
Kenta Kon
He was corrected right there on the factory floor, and he still tells the story. He comes from finance and now spends much of his week visiting factories because he admits he is still learning how to look at them.
