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software entrepreneurship

5 thinkers, books, and ideas connected to this field.

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Christina Cacioppo

American entrepreneur and co-founder/CEO of Vanta, a security compliance automation platform that has become the market leader in SOC 2 and ISO 27001 certification for SaaS companies.

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Cristobal Valenzuela

Chilean entrepreneur and co-founder/CEO of Runway, the generative AI video and image company whose tools have been used in Academy Award-winning films and by millions of creators.

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Scott Cook

American software entrepreneur and co-founder of Intuit, the personal finance software company behind TurboTax and QuickBooks, who served on multiple Silicon Valley boards during the internet era.

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Shishir Mehrotra

American product leader and entrepreneur who led product at YouTube (2008–2012) during its commercialization, and later co-founded Coda — a collaborative document platform — discussing YouTube's economics and Google's acquisition strategy on various podcasts.

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Zach Perret

American entrepreneur and co-founder/CEO of Plaid, the financial data infrastructure company that connects fintech apps to bank accounts — which Visa agreed to acquire for $5.3B in 2020 before the Department of Justice blocked the deal.

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