Richard Ceffalio Jr.
Richard Ceffalio Jr. has completed marathons and Ironman competitions, including three marathons in 2024 alone. For Rich Ceffalio, endurance sports are one part of a life built around family, faith,…
Interview
More conversations with founders. Different format, same honesty. These interviews dig into the messy middle of building something. The part between the big idea and the press coverage that most people skip over. Spoiler: that’s where all the interesting stuff happens.
The founders here share what actually fills their days. Not the Instagram version. The real one. With the early mornings, the difficult conversations, and the moments of genuine doubt that somehow coexist with genuine excitement. It’s a weird combination. Ask any founder.
What makes these conversations worth reading is the specificity. Not vague advice like “follow your passion” or “think outside the box.” Actual details. How they got their first customer. What they’d do differently. The habits that keep them from losing their minds.
Some of these founders run companies you’ve heard of. Most of them you haven’t. Yet. That’s kind of the point. The best insights often come from people who are still in the trenches, not the ones writing memoirs about trenches they left years ago. Browse through. Find someone in your space. Or don’t. Sometimes the best perspective comes from a completely different industry.
Bassam Gilini
Bassam Gilini is an entrepreneur and investor with more than two decades of experience building businesses, investing in opportunities and developing long-term commercial partnerships. He is the Founder of the…
Andrea Zaza
Andrea Zaza is co-founder of Beau Brummell Introductions, a Sydney-based matchmaking agency dedicated to gay men seeking long-term, monogamous relationships. Together with his husband and business partner, Vinko Anthony, he…
Flora Dong
Flora Dong has spent more than 25 years in wealth management, but her career has never been only about investments. Much of her work has focused on understanding the lives…
Feliciano Serrano
Feliciano Serrano, M.D., is a Los Angeles physician whose career has combined nephrology, interventional medicine, research, teaching, and community service. A native Angeleno, he grew up understanding both the diversity…
Eric Kalin
Eric Kalin is a global business leader and technology executive whose career has been shaped by growth, change, and a willingness to keep learning. Over the next 25 years, Eric…
Allison Cannella
Allison Cannella is Senior Vice President and General Counsel at the largest private owner and operator of wireless communications infrastructure in the United States, where she leads legal, regulatory, risk…
Piya Saliba
Piya Saliba has spent her life bringing together creativity, leadership, and service. Raised between Indonesia and Singapore, she grew up surrounded by different cultures and experiences that shaped the way…
Jodie Kluver
Jodie Kluver has built a career around education, public service, nonprofit leadership, and writing. For decades, she has been interested in how people and organizations respond to change, strengthen their…
Christopher Backus
Christopher Backus grew up in Olympia, Washington, where sports became one of his earliest teachers. Baseball and football gave him a feel for repetition, preparation, teamwork, and the difference between…
Marc Rovner
Marc Evan Rovner is a title insurance attorney and the General Counsel and Director of Business Development at Beta Abstract LLC, a multi-state title company operating across New York, New…
Assaf Salim
International businessman, entrepreneur, and executive Assaf Tarek Salim Perozo is the founder of Salim Group Investment. Since establishing the company in 2020, he has overseen various projects in commercial space…