Ready Founder™ Spotlight

I’d Rather Be Disliked for Who I Really Am Than Loved for Who I’m Not

Odie Gray was kicked out of high school. The way he tells it, the options that followed were...

It Can’t Be Built, and Even If You Could Build It, It Wouldn’t Work

When David Sherwood started college as a physics major, he had one question that had nothing to do...

We Give That Blood a Second Chance

Every unit of donated blood has a shelf life of 42 days. After that, it gets thrown away. Every...

You Already Have the Thing Most of Silicon Valley Is Trying to Reverse Engineer

Rana Gujral caught himself doing something that unsettled him.

He is a builder. He has spent years...

We Don’t Have Autonomous Systems Just Going Willy-Nilly All Over the Place

John Rye has a question he likes to ask. If you’re in a self-driving car and that car has to make a...

Instead of You Pushing, the String Pulls You

When Nathan Gray was nine years old, his father brought home a computer. Within days, Nate was...

Lady, You Are Crazy

In the fall of 2022, Olga Topchaya was home with a new baby, staring down the worst tech recession...