All Interviews

A conversation with John Khabbaz

John Khabbaz · Founder & CEO at Phoenician Capital

Building Financial Infrastructure for the Next Billion

James Okonkwo · Founder & CEO at LuminaPay

James Okonkwo talks about the invisible complexity of African payments, why local trust matters more than slick UX, and the discipline of saying no to fast expansion.

How Form & Thread Made Conscious Fashion Desirable

Sofia Bergman · Co-Founder & Creative Director at Form & Thread

Sofia Bergman on the tension between aesthetics and ethics, how her brand found product-market fit by refusing to preach, and the supply-chain decisions that broke the model.

Reinventing the Neighborhood Restaurant for a New Era

David López · Founder & Chef-Owner at Casa Verde

David López opened Casa Verde to prove that a neighborhood restaurant could be financially resilient, culturally rooted, and deeply creative all at once.

Building Mental Health Care That Employers Actually Want to Buy

Priya Nair · Co-Founder & CEO at Soma

Priya Nair explains how Soma cut through the crowded mental-health space by selling outcomes, not features, and why clinician experience became the product's north star.

Running a Creative Agency Without Losing the Craft

Tariq Al-Farsi · Founder & Creative Director at House of Few

Tariq Al-Farsi on how House of Few stays small, expensive, and creatively restless while refusing to scale into a traditional agency model.

The Unsexy Business of Making Returns Profitable

Elena Voss · Co-Founder & COO at Circular Route

Elena Voss co-founded Circular Route to turn the logistics nightmare of returns into a revenue stream. She explains why the best climate ideas often look like boring operations companies.

Bootstrapping a SaaS to $3M ARR With No Employees

Ryan Kim · Solo Founder at QuietTools

Ryan Kim has built QuietTools to $3M ARR as a solo founder. He talks about discipline, automation, and the freedom of refusing venture capital.