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Patrick Collison: The Irish Teenager Who Built the Internet's Economic Engine

Mar 25, 2026

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12 min read

Patrick Collison: The Irish Teenager Who Built the Internet's Economic Engine

The story of how a teenage programmer from rural Ireland built one of the world’s most important financial infrastructure companies, simplifying online payments and powering millions of businesses globally.

Sameer Khan
Sameer Khan
How Demis Hassabis Built DeepMind and Turned AI Into a Discovery Engine

Mar 17, 2026

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12 min read

How Demis Hassabis Built DeepMind and Turned AI Into a Discovery Engine

The story of how a chess prodigy, game designer, and neuroscientist built one of the world’s most advanced AI research companies to solve intelligence and accelerate scientific discovery.

Sameer Khan
Sameer Khan
How Amjad Masad Built Replit and Turned Ideas Into Software

Mar 10, 2026

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11 min read

How Amjad Masad Built Replit and Turned Ideas Into Software

The story of how a self-taught coder from internet cafés built a platform designed to make software creation accessible to anyone, anywhere in the world.

Sameer Khan
Sameer Khan
How Jeff Bezos Built Amazon and Rewired Global Commerce

Mar 2, 2026

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12 min read

How Jeff Bezos Built Amazon and Rewired Global Commerce

From selling books in a garage to building a trillion-dollar empire powered by customer obsession, long-term thinking, and bold bets on the future of commerce and technology.

Sameer Khan
Sameer Khan
How Jack Dorsey Built Twitter and Reimagined Money Through Simplicity

Feb 24, 2026

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10 min read

How Jack Dorsey Built Twitter and Reimagined Money Through Simplicity

The story of a quiet founder who turned short messages into a global communication system and later rebuilt finance for the internet age.

Sameer Khan
Sameer Khan
How Kevin Systrom Built Instagram in 8 Weeks and Sold It for $1 Billion

Feb 17, 2026

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10 min read

How Kevin Systrom Built Instagram in 8 Weeks and Sold It for $1 Billion

The story of how a product-obsessed founder simplified social sharing, scaled lightning-fast, and convinced Facebook to bet $1B on a team of just 13 people.

Sameer Khan
Sameer Khan
How Melanie Perkins Scaled Canva from an Idea to a Global Design Brand

Feb 10, 2026

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13 min read

How Melanie Perkins Scaled Canva from an Idea to a Global Design Brand

From a 19-year-old student pitching from her mom’s living room to building a $25 billion platform that puts professional design in millions of hands.

Sameer Khan
Sameer Khan
How Reed Hastings Transformed Netflix into a Global Streaming Engine

Feb 3, 2026

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12 min read

How Reed Hastings Transformed Netflix into a Global Streaming Engine

The insight that turned a $40 late fee into a streaming revolution and dismantled traditional media distribution.

Sameer Khan
Sameer Khan
How Tony Xu Turned DoorDash into the Everyday Infrastructure of Local Commerce

Jan 27, 2026

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11 min read

How Tony Xu Turned DoorDash into the Everyday Infrastructure of Local Commerce

How DoorDash evolved from food delivery into a platform connecting neighborhoods, merchants, and millions of daily moments.

Sameer Khan
Sameer Khan
Beyond the iPhone: How Tim Cook Future-Proofed the World’s Most Valuable Brand

Jan 20, 2026

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11 min read

Beyond the iPhone: How Tim Cook Future-Proofed the World’s Most Valuable Brand

The strategy of turning a "Gadget Company" into a "Lifestyle Infrastructure" that billions can't live without.

Sameer Khan
Sameer Khan
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