Ben Phillips
Co-founder/CTO at Thread.com
Previously: Co-founder/CTO at Playfire.com
Blog - Latest post: Technical debt—it doesn't have to be this way
Other:
Built league management software for Dream Leagues
Can memorise a pack of cards
Has a peak 1915 lichess blitz rating (target: 1900)
Has a peak 1939 lichess bullet rating (target: 1900)
Player-manager of Haggerston Athletic football club
Shoe Dog - Phil Knight
The co-founder of Nike's memoir. Revisits some familiar entrepreneurial themes: adversity, resilience, personal stories and relationships, having meaning in one's work, a stubborn, self-starting streak, tying (or more cynically, retrofitting?) your company's mission to something very personal. Very easy to read, some spiritual themes running through, larger than life characters, and a raw and rare streak of candidness.