Day: June 25, 2025

For Cal Henderson, good ideas don’t always begin where you expect. The Slack Co-Founder and CTO built one of the world’s most widely used workplace communication platforms by solving a very personal problem: how to keep his geographically distributed game development team in sync. That homegrown solution turned into Slack, and it wasn’t his first accidental empire. Years earlier, while building the game Game Neverending, Henderson helped create Flickr…

Venky Veeraraghavan understands that product innovation in AI is about solving the right problems at scale. As Chief Product Officer at DataRobot, he’s known for making generative AI usable in real-world enterprise environments. “You’re never fully ready for change—it always happens,” he says, recalling the rapid-fire innovation of the early internet days…