Market-relevant series · 2026 · Nominations open
The Builders
The people who made something exist where nothing did.
Nominations are open and free. Anyone can put a name forward, including your own.
About the series
The Builders
Every company in this series began as somebody deciding to build it. This is a record of the operators who did the work before it was obvious it would work, told through the decisions rather than the outcomes.
Selection
What earns a place
01
Built, not inherited
The leader stood something up from zero, or rebuilt a function so completely that the old version no longer describes it.
02
Decisions over outcomes
We are interested in the calls made under real constraint, before the result was visible. A good outcome with no reasoning behind it is a press release.
03
Evidence on the record
Numbers, timelines and trade-offs the leader is willing to put their name to.
Published
Stories in this series
Oscar Casanova
Founder & CEO, Eververdant Growth Partners
The Same Bet, Twice
Oscar Casanova advised on more than $30 billion in transactions at Goldman Sachs and helped scale software companies from the inside. Then…
Jason Fiorillo
Chief Legal Officer, Boston Dynamics
At the Center of the Maelstrom
Scaling Boston Dynamics' legal function as Atlas walks out of the lab and into policy rooms that haven't written the rules yet.
This series is being built in the open
Stories are added as leaders come through the process. Every piece is written from the executive’s own words and published only once they have approved it. If someone belongs here, put their name forward.
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