About the Authors
Hemant Taneja
Hemant Taneja is the executive chairman and
co-founder of Commure, a system of innovation for
healthcare. He is also a managing director at the
venture capital firm General Catalyst and has been
featured on the Forbes Midas List of top investors.
He partners with mission-driven founders building
platform companies that are fundamentally aligned
with the long-term interests of society. He and
General Catalyst are early investors in companies
like Airbnb, Color, Grammarly, Gusto, Livongo,
Mindstrong, Samsara, Snap, Stripe, and Warby Parker.
In 2018, Hemant published Unscaled, his first book
which outlines his investment thesis of “economies
of unscale.”
Stephen Klasko
Dr. Stephen Klasko is president of Thomas Jefferson
University and CEO of Jefferson Health. In 2020, the
World Economic Forum named him a Distinguished
Fellow for the Digital Economy and New Value
Creation. For three years he has been listed among
the most influential people by Modern Healthcare and
was the only healthcare executive listed in Fast
Company ’s “most creative people in business.”
Kevin Maney
Written with Kevin Maney, a best-selling author,
technology journalist, and a founding partner of
Category Design Advisors. He is the author of Play
Bigger: How Pirates, Dreamers and Innovators Create
and Dominate Markets. He has written for dozens of
media outlets, including USA Today, Fortune, Wired
and Newsweek, and appeared regularly on television
and radio, including CNN, CNBC, NPR and CBS Sunday
Morning.
