Ready Founder™ Spotlight
Meet the founders building companies worth watching. The Ready Founder Spotlight series features veteran and MilCom growth-stage SaaS and defense tech entrepreneurs on their businesses, their lessons, and what's ahead.
People Lie, but the Data Never Does
Mike Pendleton woke up one morning shortly after retiring from the Air Force and started scrolling through his phone. Twenty-plus years of service...
Write It in Pencil
The first business Hillary Boyce ever started was born on her couch, late at night, with a glass of wine in her hand and no plan whatsoever. The..
We Help You Keep Your Promises
Devin Mahoney’s six-year-old daughter asked him a question over breakfast. “Dad, how many jobs do you have?” He laughed telling the story, because it..
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 simple: join the military, or face a future with almost..
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 with physics: How does biological memory work? It..
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 year, the United States discards millions of units...
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 in the weeds of speech signals, models, and..
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 split-second decision and makes the wrong one,..
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 teaching himself to code. He would walk to Radio Shack..
Lady, You Are Crazy
In the fall of 2022, Olga Topchaya was home with a new baby, staring down the worst tech recession in a decade. Hundreds of thousands of people in..