people I admire and that I aspire to be like

• marty cagan (founder, silicon valley product group; product leadership author)
• teresa torres (author; continuous product discovery coach)
• brian chesky (co-founder & ceo, airbnb; design-led company builder)
• patrick collison (co-founder & ceo, stripe; relentless builder mindset)
• melanie perkins (co-founder & ceo, canva; product + distribution at scale)
• demis hassabis (co-founder & ceo, google deepmind; research-to-real-world ambition)
• jony ive (designer; founder, lovefrom; craft + simplicity as strategy)
• dieter rams (industrial designer; the “principles” guy for modern product design)
• rené redzepi (chef; co-owner, noma; obsessive iteration + seasonal systems)
• eliud kipchoge (olympic marathon champion; process, patience, consistency)
• rick rubin (producer; taste-first creativity, minimal technical “rules”)
• james dyson (inventor; stubborn iteration until it works)
• michael dell (founder, dell; execution + distribution discipline)
• steve jobs (co-founder, apple; product taste + storytelling)
• sebastián “zuko” carrasco (ecuadorian climber; rebuilt life after paralysis)
• chung ju-yung (founder, hyundai group; scrappy builder from nothing)
• soichiro honda (founder, honda; engineering grit + learning-by-doing)
• virgil abloh (designer; “learn the rules, then remix them”)