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Anne Cocquyt on her blueberry farm

Finding Your North Star, with Serial Entrepreneur Anne Cocquyt

Anne Cocquyt grew up in the heart of Germany’s peerless culture of order and engineering, in the automotive manufacturing hub of Baden-Württemberg, home to Mercedes and Porsche. Her family pushed Christian values, academic education, and community service – right down…

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Flying On the Road, with Untitled Motorcycles Co-Founder Hugo Eccles

Hugo Eccles grew up with a “petrol-head” amateur race car driver dad who ignited his passion for cars and motorcycles. When Eccles wasn’t “running wild” in the bucolic English countryside, he sketched cars with his grandmother, the prelude to his…

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Next Generation Flying, with Tamarack Aerospace Group’s Jacob Klinginsmith

Growing up in the shadow of Boeing in Seattle in the early aughts, Jacob Klinginsmith was destined for a career in aeronautics. From the age of fifteen, he was the “default autopilot” in his grandfather’s Cessna, racking up flight miles…

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Are You Ready for the Metaverse Wars?

To write this story about the metaverse, I first had to tear myself away from reading Ready Player One, which is all about, well, the metaverse. Set in 2045, this prescient 2014 sci-fi novel describes a world in which, having…

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