The people who edit this.
A small desk. Every story that appears here has been read, questioned, and edited by at least one of the people below.
- № 01Editor-in-Chief
Maya Rao
Maya has spent fifteen years in long-form business journalism, most recently as a senior editor at a national magazine before joining to found this publication. She commissions, edits, and occasionally writes the pieces she can’t convince anyone else to do.
- № 02Features Editor
Daniel Okafor
Daniel runs the long-read and profiles desk. He’s been embedded with more than sixty companies over six years of field reporting and holds the house record for longest piece under 8,000 words.
- № 03Founders Desk Editor
Priya Singh
Priya edits the founder profile vertical and manages the weekly pitch review. She was a founder herself — twice — before moving to editorial, and brings that to every interview question she sends reporters back with.
How the desk works
On the record by default.
Sources are named unless naming them puts them at genuine risk, and background needs two independent sources before we treat it as fact.
Our ethics →Corrected in the open.
Flagged errors get an answer within 24 hours. Corrections are logged permanently — never silently edited away.
Corrections policy →Paid work, kept apart.
Payment buys a slot and a label — never the angle. Sales has no edit access, and every paid placement is disclosed.
Editorial firewall →