TL;DR Daniel Ek turned music into a software problem. The Swedish entrepreneur built Spotify into a $30...
Entrepreneur Profiles
In-depth profiles of the founders, operators, and investors shaping AI, robotics, and industrial automation.
TL;DR Tobi Lütke built Shopify into the internet’s backbone for independent commerce. He transformed a rejected acquisition...
TL;DR John Collison is the president and co-founder of Stripe, the payments infrastructure company that has quietly...
TL;DR Patrick Collison built Stripe into the infrastructure layer of internet commerce—a company that processes hundreds of...
TL;DR Dara Khosrowshahi took over Uber in 2017 when the company was burning through cash and drowning...
TL;DR Travis Kalanick built Uber from a black-car booking app into a global transportation empire that fundamentally...
TL;DR Brian Chesky transformed a struggling design studio into a $100 billion global hospitality giant by solving...
TL;DR Reed Hastings built Netflix from a DVD rental startup into the world’s largest streaming platform—a feat...
TL;DR Jeff Bezos built Amazon from a Seattle garage into the world’s most valuable retailer and a...
TL;DR Mark Zuckerberg built Facebook from a Harvard dorm room into a 3-billion-person social network—then bet the...