HOW THEY BUILT IT: STORIES ON ENTREPRENEURSHIP

GARY LIPOVETSKY, entrepreneur and host of the RISE podcast.

LISA CARMEN WANG is the founder of Bad Bitch Empire, a global community platform building unapologetic worth and wealth for women. She is a former Olympic-level, four-time USA National Champion and USA Hall of Fame gymnast, serial entrepreneur, venture capitalist, international speaker, certified executive coach, and host of the Bad Bitch Empire podcast. She is also an executive board member of Fast Company and has been recognized as a Forbes 30 under 30 honoree, Red Bull Hero of the Year, and an Entrepreneur Magazine 100 Most Powerful Women. Her work has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Fortune, The Atlantic, Bloomberg, The Washington Post, Business Insider, USA Today, Nasdaq, CNN, and many more. Wang started her career as a hedge fund analyst and is a graduate of Yale University.

Teen entrepreneur, programmer, and student MICHAEL SAYMAN created an iOS app development company at 13 after teaching himself to code. Since then, he has gone on to create dozens of apps, which have been downloaded more than 3 million times worldwide. App Kid: How a Child of Immigrants Grabbed a Piece of the American Dream (Vintage) is his debut book.

SHANE NEMAN is a serial entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and real estate developer. After dropping out of NYU Medical School and failing at his first startup during the tech-bubble bust of the early 2000s, he started over. His second venture, JoonBug, became a multimillion-dollar digital events powerhouse that thoroughly disrupted the events and hospitality industry. He subsequently founded a successful SaaS business, EZ Texting, the largest business SMS software platform in the United States. Now as a venture capitalist, Neman is a prolific backer of startups, including Impossible Foods, Athletic Greens, SandboxAQ, Cirkul, Flexport, Convoy, Prose, Kraken, Obe, Deep Sentinel, Anvyl, Future, MapAnything, VinePair, Hyperice, and Gupshup. He is also an investor, developer, and manager of various real estate properties from commercial shopping and industrial centers to large residential buildings, running a portfolio of more than 20 properties in major metropolitan cities across the U.S.