Introducing the world's largest book contributor list

When we hear the words "business book," we often have the same mental images: a Steve Jobs biography; a memoir written by a CEO or billionaire (or, more likely, their ghostwriter); some grand manifesto with no fewer than 372819382093 mentions of the words "vision" or "leadership."

I wanted The Unspoken Rules: Secrets to Starting Your Career Off Right to be a different type of book—a book that all of us could relate to and find useful.

I knew I wouldn't be able to do this alone. I haven't lived the life of Black woman in Wisconsin who had to wrestle with whether to straighten her hair before her first day in a new job. I haven't lived the life of a medical intern in Boston who suddenly found herself calling the shots when her patient's surgery had to be called off. I haven't lived the life of a temporary office assistant in the Philippines who turned her dead-end job into a management position that hadn't existed before.

So, I went out, found these people, and listened to their stories. Five years later, I've met over 500 people across geographies, industries, and job types—and distilled into a single book what they wish someone had told them earlier about how to succeed at work.

The Unspoken Rules is a different type of book. It doesn't just contain advice from 1 person. It contains advice from over 500 people (and, really over 900 people given the hundreds of others who pitched in at every turn).

As a result, my acknowledgments section is not really an acknowledgments section at all. It's more like a contributors section—and one spanning 9 whole pages, as shown below.

To everyone listed—and to all those who supported this project but whom I've forgotten to include—thank you! I literally could not have done this without you.

Interested in what these hundreds of professionals have to say?

1. Preview the first 25 pages at www.gorick.com.
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Here's the full acknowledgments list, excerpted from the book:

This baby has many parents. Over nine hundred, actually. It is the effort of the following individuals—and any others I am bound to have forgotten—that made this project possible. These are the people who’ve mentored me, opened doors for me, helped me uncover my blind spots, endured my countless rounds of questioning, offered shoulders to cry on, and helped me transform my napkin notes and shower thoughts into dozens of drafts—and, finally, into the book now in your hands. If you found it helpful, know that it didn’t come just from me; it came from an entire village.

When I was a wide-eyed MBA student, Professor Len Schlesinger answered my cold email in six minutes and, just as quickly during our first meeting, encouraged me to turn my research into a book. Len readily embraced my ambitious independent project proposal, reviewed my early drafts, walked me through the unspoken rules of publishing, and introduced me to Paul B. Brown, who opened the door to my first publisher pitch. Although the pitch, like the nineteen that followed it, ended in rejection, I am grateful for—and learned a great deal from—the opportunity.

Jaime B. Goldstein, my startup pitch competition judge turned manager turned mentor turned friend, taught me that good is better than perfect (a lesson I am still trying to learn) and encouraged me to put myself out there, even though I didn’t feel ready. She introduced me to Scott Belsky, who in turn introduced me to Jim Levine, my literary agent.

Jim Levine not only saw potential in my concept, but was, along with Matthew Huff and Courtney Paganelli, a constant source of encouragement in the face of rejection. Jim also taught me what has since become one of my favorite lines: “You only need one yes.”

For being an unrelenting source of support during all the ups and downs, I thank “The Choir”: Michael Altman, Camille Zumwalt Coppola, Eric Hendey, Lea Hendey, Vishnu Kalugotla, Ken Liu, and Chaodan Zheng.

For being a constant source of guidance, inspiration, and friendship as a fellow first-gen on a mission to level the playing field for those from humble beginnings, I thank David Carey—and Shawn Bohen for bringing us together.

For enduring my endless questions, reading—and rereading—my countless drafts, shaping my thinking and writing, and telling me what I need to hear rather than what I want to hear, I thank the brain trust that includes Aaron Altabet, Damaris Altomerianos, Kweku Darteh Anane-Appiah, Isaiah Baldissera, Julia Canick, Wadnes Castelly, Jim Chan, Chris Cheng, Joanna Cornell, Evan Covington, Caroline Davis, Matthew De La Fuente, Eugenio Donati, Neel Doshi, Sheila Enamandram, Uriel Epstein, Rebecca Feickert, Triston Francis, Collin Fu, Galina Gheihman, Luke Hodges, Winston Huang, Samir Junnarkar, Victor Kamenker, Joyce Kim, Leo Kim, Kieren Kresevic Salazar, Ling Lam, Alison Lee, Angela Li, Christian Lin, Jarron Lord, Monica MacGillis, Kamau Massey, Sana Mohammed, Miranda Morrison, Hasib Muhammad, Injil Muhammad Jr., Veronica O’Brien, Richard Park, Wes Peacock, Jan Philip Petershagen, Sudheer Poluru, Michele Popadich, Kathleen Power, Rachel Pregun, Josh Roth, Caleb Schwartz, Stephen Slater, Donovan Smith, Rob Snyder, Scott Stirrett, Meghan Titzer, George Vinton, Davis Wilkinson, Charles Wong, and Lushen Wu.

For their cheerleading and thought partnership during the manuscript’s early stages, I thank the founding fellows of the Harvard Initiative for Learning and Teaching: Mahdi AlBasri, Sophie Turnbull Bosmeny, Azeez Gupta, Angela Jackson, and Susan Johnson McCabe.

For doing nothing short of magic with a manuscript that was forty thousand words over the word limit, I thank Alicyn Zall, my editor. I also thank Sally Ashworth, Julie Devoll, Lindsey Dietrich, Stephani Finks, Brian Galvin, Erika Heilman, Jeff Kehoe, Alexandra Kephart, Melinda Merino, Ella Morris, Josh Olejarz, Jon Shipley, Felicia Sinusas, Anne Starr, and everyone on the Harvard Business Review Press editorial, production, and commercial teams for transforming a Word document and a collection of hand-drawn sketches into a finished book.

For helping me start my career off right—and for being the intellectual and practical foundation of this project—I thank members of the BCG and BCG Digital Ventures family: Hachem Alaoui Soce, Spenta Arnold, Lia Asquini, Ben Aylor, Mohammed Badi, Simon Bartletta, Robert Batten, William Blonna, Adrienne Bross, William Brown, Jamie Brush, Keith Caldwell, Joe Carrubba, Rajiv Chegu, Caitlin Wolff Clifford, Peter Czerepak, Carl Daher, David DeSandre, Alexander Drummond, Meaghan English, Sheila Flynn, James Foley, Leah Fotis, Jared Ganis, Priya Garg, Anika Gupta, Michael Haghkerdar, Gary Hall, Daniel Harvey, Justine Hasson, Bryan Head, Jeri Herman, Max Horsley, Daniel Huss, Harnish Jani, Khatchig Karamanoukian, Scott Keenan, Rhanhee Stella Kim, Vladimir Kirichenko, Akifumi Kita, Allison Koo, Amit Kumar, Olga LaBelle, Hana Lane, Cici Liu, Elizabeth Lyle, Nate MacKenzie, Justin McBride, Eric Michel, Sara Schwartz Mohan, Emily Mulcahy, Scott Myslinski, Cara Nealon, Hikmat Noujeim, Chrissy O’Brien, Sarah Olsen, Richard Pierre, Roger Premo, Chloe Qi, Marisa Rackson, Sruthi Ravi, Roman Regelman, Eduardo Daniel Russian, Tom Schnitzer, Dorian Simpson, Aishwarya Sridhar, Chetan Tadvalkar, Jordan Taylor, Nithya Vaduganathan, Orian Welling, Ryah Whalen, John Wu, Graham Wyatt, Wenjia (Grace) You, Bill Young, Luke H. Young, Josh Zeidman, Jeff Zhang, and Kuba Zielinski.

For helping to demystify the unspoken rules of publishing, I thank Becky Cooper, Franklin Sooho Lee, Efosa Ojomo, Aemilia Phillips, Martin Roll, and Julie Zhuo.

For being thought partners and cheerleaders since the very beginning of this journey—and for staying with me despite my many flavors du jour—I thank Ethan Barhydt, Sam Barrows, Omnia Chen, Shuo Chen, Rob Cherun, Shao Yuan Chew Chia, Isabella Chiu, Dianne Ciarletta, Joshua Caleb Collins, Stephanie Connaughton, Eric Dallin, Zachary Dearing, Varun Desai, Kelly Graham, Laura Hogikyan, Marcel Horbach, Nathaniel Houghton, Sherjan Husainie, Mohammad Hanif Jhaveri, Jaxson Khan, Sherman Lam, Jenny Le, DI Lee, Dustin Leszcynski, Ketty Lie, Tianyu Liu, Justin Lo, Lauren Long, Colin Lynch, Shyam Mani, Greg McGee, Iva Milo, Nondini Naqui, Mark Newberg, Rachel O’Neil, Sue Pfeffer, Ethan Pierce, Patrick Quinton-Brown, Nevin Raj, Sasha Ramani, Gustavo Resendiz Jr., David Su, Patrick Trisna, Dianne Twombly, Christopher Usih, Rohan Wadhwa, Naicheng Wangyu, Soo Wong, Peter Xu, Noah Yonack, Harry Yu, Ike Zhang, Richard Zhang, and Sandy Zhu.

For the advice, anecdotes, feedback, introductions, and support—and for dealing with my constant pitches—I thank my HBS Section I “Iguana Samura-Is” and the HBS founder community: Daniel Abrams, Michael Aft, Wade Anderson, Jonathan Arena, Jeremy Au, Ward Ault, Graham Ballbach, Wills Begor, Robby Berner, Elizabeth Blake, Gonzalo Boada Giménez, Grant Boren, Sophia Bra?es, Jessie Cai, Allison Campbell, Laura Carpenter, Henry Cashin, Eric Chavez, Fay Chen, Stephanie Cheng, Sooah Cho, Spencer Christensen, Michael Clancy, Christianna Coltart, Mike Contillo, Gabe Cunningham, Katherine Degnen, Matt Delaney, Felipe Delgado, Sahil Dewan, Bahia El Oddi, Carolyn Fallert, Deeni Fatiha, Vicente Fauro, Javier Fernandez, Michi Ferreol, Quinn Fitzgerald, Brandon Freiberg, Lily Fu, Francesca Furchtgott, Juan David Galindo, Matt Graham, Rashard Green, Shray Gulati, Natalie J. Guo, Michael Haddad, Daniel Handlin, Benjamin Hardy, Christopher Henry, Marc Howland, Kristina Hristova, Linda Huynh, Sander Intelmann, Hari Iyer, Nancy Jin, Ashwini Kadaba, Ryan Karmouta, Salima Kassam, Ananth Kasturiraman, Irene Keskinen, Reilly Kiernan, David Kim, Julia Klimaszewska, Andrew Knez, Rafi Kohlberg, Evan Kornbluh, Aditi Kumar, Ben Lacey, Hans Latta, Catherine Lee, Brian Levin, Jenna Levy, Kenny Lim, Rachel Lipson, Beijun Luo, Alison MacLeod, Amrita Mainthia, Yarden Maoz, Fredrik Mar?, Peggy Mativo-Ochola, David Mbau, Elise McDonald, Pat McMann, Amit Megiddo, Anita Mehrotra, Michael Mekeel, Shantanu Misra, Deviyani Misra-Godwin, Roberto Morfino, Rahkeem Morris, Stanislav Moskovtsev, Josefin Muehlbauer, Patrick Nealon, Clarisse Neu, Benjamin Newmark, Grace Ng, Erika Ohashi, Sonja Page, Sanchali Pal, Sam Palmisano, Iryna Papalamava, Apoorva Pasricha, Saurav Patyal, Ana Pedrajo, Phoebe Peronto, Amira Polack, Olivier Porté, Shveta Raina, Krishna Rajendran, JJ Raynor, Michael Reslinski, Misan Rewane, Hunter Richard, Caitlin Riederer, Ken Rowe, Ben Samuels, Tafadzwa Samushonga, Jose Sanchez, Beau Sangassapaviriya, Levana Sani, Michael Sard, Rebecca Scharfstein, Jon Schechter, Monty Sharma, Quinn Shelton, Mimi Sheng, Doug Shultz, Andrew Sierra, Denzil Sikka, Michael Silvestri, Kamoy Smalling, Taylor Spector, Sam Stone, Rohit Sudheendranath, Colleen Tapen, Stephen Temple, Liz Thomas, Pierre H. Thys, Tarunika Tolani, Stephanie Tong, Chad Trausch, Sujay Tyle, Saksham Uppal, Erika Uyterhoeven, David Vakili, Sharif Vakili, Gustavo Vaz, Fangfang Wang, Dan Weisleder, Michael Alan Williams, Aaron Wirshba, Jon Wofsy, Maria Woodman, Lynn Xie, Catherine Xu, Shelly Xu, Takafumi Yamada, Jeremy Yan, Roland Yang, Nanako Yano, Ravi Yegya-Raman, Brian Yeh, Angelo Zegna, Yujie Zeng, Mary Zhang, and Itamar Zur.

For all the thought-provoking discussions, personal anecdotes, and encouragement, I thank members of the Boston Shapers, including Ryan Ansin, Johan Bjurman Bergman, Sean J. Cheng, Howard Cohen, Giffin Daughtridge, Anand Ganjam, Juan Giraldo, Kyle Gross, Neekta Hamidi, Rachel Kanter, Tanveer Kathawalla, Millie Liu, Phil Michaels, David Mou, Ryan O’Malley, Josuel Plasencia, Abhishek Raman, Michael Raspuzzi, Jake Reisch, Jen Riedel, Meicen Sun, Yannis K. Valtis, and Bozhanka Vitanova.

For helping me appreciate the challenging but rewarding work of advising students who don’t know what they don’t know, I thank my colleagues at UMass Boston, including Jennifer Barone, William Farrick, Deborah Federico, Adesuwa Igbineweka, Mark Kenyon, Michael Mahan, Katherine Newman, Matthew Power-Koch, and Amanda Stupakevich, and the Adams House tutor corps and First-Gen, Low-Income and Career Advising teams, including Varnel Antoine, Ceylon Auguste-Nelson, Matt Burke, Jerren Chang, Marina Connelly, Medha Gargeya, Sheila Gholkar, Jelani Hayes, Shandra Jones, Shannon Jones, Amber Kuzmick, John Muresianu, Rumbi Mushavi, Emma Ogiemwanye, Dennis Ojogho, Judith Palfrey, Sean Palfrey, Sunny Patel, Osiris Rankin, Kathryn C. Reed, Weilu Shen, Timothy Smith, Aubry Threlkeld, Emiliano Valle, and Larissa Zhou.

For embracing my minimal-viable-product pitches, offering early feedback, and extending opportunities to field-test my ideas, I thank Brian Bar, Diana Chien, Justin Kang, Paul Martin, Amanda Sharick, Karen Shih, and Andrew Yang.

For the extra couch and the midnight stroll through the streets of Shanghai that inspired this whole journey, I thank Chris Royle and Andrew Yoo.

For the (literal) long walks on the beach that sparked my journey down the path less traveled, I thank H. Wook Kim.

For their insights, mentorship, and guidance, I thank the faculty and staff of HBS, many of whom took the time to meet with someone they had never even taught before, including Ethan Bernstein, Ryan Buell, Jeff Bussgang, Timothy Butler, Clayton Christensen, Michael Chu, Thomas DeLong, Amy Edmondson, Kristin Fabbe, Kristen Fitzpatrick, David Fubini, Joseph Fuller, Jodi Gernon, Shikhar Ghosh, Lena Goldberg, Paul Gompers, Boris Groysberg, Jonas Heese, Laura Huang, Chet Huber, Robert Huckman, Elizabeth Keenan, William Kerr, John J-H Kim, Rembrand Koning, Mark Kramer, Christopher Malloy, Tony Mayo, Ramana Nanda, Mark Roberge, Richard Ruback, Amy Schulman, Willy Shih, Lou Shipley, Erik Stafford, Brian Trelstad, Ashley Whillans, and Royce Yudkoff.

Last but not least, I thank the countless individuals who didn’t fit neatly into any of the categories above but whose anecdotes and insights led to this book. Many of these individuals answered my cold emails, endured my relentless probing, and shared candid reflections that became the basis of this book. I have used some of these individuals’ names as pseudonyms for the real protagonists in this book as a gesture of gratitude (and to preserve the anonymity of the actual person). Among this group are individuals such as Andrea Abbott, Asset Abdualiyev, CJ Abeleda, Rabia Abrar, Susan Acton, Kristen Adamowski, Ehizogie Marymartha Agbonlahor, Muhammad Khisal Ahmed, Shirley Ai, Bob Allard, Lindsay Alperin, Verenice Andrade, Olivia Angiuli, Carl Arnold, Sare’ Arnold, Jeremy Aronson, Casey Arrington, Christina Asadorian, Sasanka Atapattu, Afnan Attia, Andrea Bachyrycz, Shota Bagaturia, Ally Baldwin, Somya Banwari, Jon Barrett, Ryan Batter, Yonas Bayu, Julie Belben, Amy Benoit, Anthony Benoit, Steven J. Berger, Saba Beridze, Thomas Bernhardt-Lanier, Julee Bertsch, Mehnaaz Bholat, Maxwell Bigman, Sarah Bishop, Nicolas Blanco-Galindo, Robert Blank, Katie Bollbach, Steve Bonner, Leopold Bottinger, Maria Camila Brango, Nick Breedlove, Beth Brettschneider, Don Brezinski, Neil Bronfin, Ben Brooks, David Bryan, Pamela Campbell, Tobias Campos, Evan Cao, Deb Carroll, Jocelyn Carter, Sarah Case, Clarice Chan, Leila Chan Currie, Alexandria Chase, Brad Chattergoon, Min Che, Kevin Chen, Nina Chen, Luke Cheng, Jonah Chevrier, Prasidh Chhabria, Althea Chia, Nathan Chin, Kao Zi Chong, Adam Chu, Eric Chung, Cindy Churchill, Priscilla Claman, Tom Clay, Sam Clemens, Keith Cline, Celine Coggins, Chris Colbert, Emmet Colbert, Miles Collyer, Michael Concepcion, Susan Connor, Sarah Connors, Giovanni Conserva, Ashley Cooke, Kerry Whorton Cooper, Kailani Cordell, Ben Cornish, Ryan Craig, Albert Cui, Jake Cui, Matthew Curry, Taylor Dallin, Annie Dang, Francesco Daniele, Samuel Daviau, Graham Davis, Ryan Davis, Daniel Debow, Gwendolyn Delgado, Shaan Desai, Mike Dezube, Alice Diamond, Caitlin DiMartino, Jake Dinerman, Amanda Dobbie, Omer Dobrescu, Brian Doyle, Connor Doyle, Tom Dretler, Thomas Dunleavy, Anne Dwane, Thanushi Eagalle, Brendan Eappen, Oliver Edmond, Dena Elkhatib, Bashir Elmegaryaf, Mary Elms, Olivia Engellau, Andrea Esposito, Kayla Evans, Ronny Fang, Zev Farber, Awais Farooq, Caroline Fay, Josh Feinberg, Leslie Feingerts, Dave Ferguson, Benji Fernandes, Jessica Flores, Shannon Flynn, Alexandra Foote, Abby Forbes, Aoife Fortin, Aisha Francis, Debra Franke, David Frankel, Julia Freeland Fisher, Nathan Fry, Olivia Fu, Cheng Gao, Jack Gao, Andrew Garcia, Valeria Garcia, Andres Garcia Lopez, Gerry Garvin, Joan Gass, Bob Gatewood, Rachel Gibson, Francine Gierak, Ali Gitomer, Katerina Glyptis, Rob Go, Diana Godfrey, Irvin Gómez, Andre Gonthier, Andre Gonzalez, Dan Gonzalez, Josh Gottlieb, Raffi Grinberg, Cindy Guan, Matthew Guidarelli, Lucy Guo, Deanna Gutierrez, Guillermo Samuel Hamlin, Longzhen Han, Crystel Harris, Emma Harrison-Trainor, Najib Hayat, Seamus Heaney, Tyler Hester, Mark Hoeplinger, Stephen Hong, Junaid Hoosen, Daniel Horgan, Eddie Horgan, Will Houghteling, Alice Hsiung, Eric Huang, Yingzi Sakura Huang, Alisha Hudani, Matt Hui, Michael Huntley, Urooj Hussain, Ian Ingles, Kathleen Jarman, Chetan Jhaveri, Alysha Johnson Williams, Saumya Joshi, Sarah June, Rick Kamal, Yinan Kang, Howard Kaplan, Imane Karroumi, Lance Katigbak, Nilu Kazemi, Marie Keil, Julia Kemp, Iqra Khan, Qasim Khan, Jaymin Kim, Cheryl Kiser, Lisa Kleitz, Carin-Isabel Knoop, Nathaniel Koloc, Jocelyn Krauss, Carl Kreitzberg, Claudia Krimsky, Andy Ku, Kara Kubarych, Justin Kulla, Ruth Kwakwa, Adrian Kwok, Scott LaChapelle, Margot Lafrance, Debbie Lai, Kriti Lall, Clement Lam, Michelle LaRoche, Heidi Larson, Atoor Lawandow, Fran Lawler, Leslie Laws, Tuongvan Le, Ryan Leaf, Antina Lee, Claire Lee, Trevor Lee, Zhihan Lee, James Leeper, Jolene Lehr, John Leung, Aner Levkovich, Linda Lewi, Junyi Li, Mary Li, Yuanjian Carla Li, Kevin Liang, Sandy Liang, Rachel Liddell, Bill Lin, Jessica Lin, Elizabeth Ling, John Liu, Tina Liu, Jake Livengood, Daniel Lobo, Vrinda Loiwal, Brian Longmire, Laura Thompson Love, Nicholas Lowell, Helen Lu, Yin Lu, Gina Lucente-Cole, Kory Lundberg, Kelly Luo, Ande Lyons, Shannon Lytle, David Ma, Marco Ma, Ruby Maa, Ary Maharaj, Fazlur Malik, Bill Manley, Lyn Martin, Brian Matt, Linley McConnell, Karen McCrank, Metta McGarvey, Tessie McGough, Noelle McIsaac, Eleanor Meegoda, Rishab Mehan, Bill Mei, Emily Meland, Rui Meleiro, Michelle Mendes-Swidzinski, Christina Mendez, Jesse Mermell, Matt Meyersohn, Kyle Miller, Fatima Mohammad, Catherine Money, David Moon, Brian Morgan, Eric Morris, Madeleine Mortimore, Robin Mount, Thomas Murphy, Kennan Murphy-Sierra, Brian Mwarania, Annie Nam, Anthony Nardini, Katie Ng-Mak, Dina Nguyen, Kristine Nguyen, Patrick Nihill, Tasnoba Nusrat, Claire O’Connell, Tom O’Reilly, Lia O’Donnell, Ben Ohno, Chiderah Okoye, Ana Olano, Justin Ossola, Eric Ouyang, Scott Overdyke, Natalie Owen, Kayode Owens, Laiza Padilla, James Palano, Aaron Palmer, Ben Palmer, Belinda Pang, Rohan Parakh, Santiago Pardo Sánchez, Nisha Parikh, Christie Park, Hannah Park, Linda Passarelli, Priya Patel, Zeel Patel, India Peek Jensen, Kristine Pender, Angie Peng, Sally Pennell, Maren Peterson, Sharon Peyer, Steve Pfrenzinger, Alex Pham, Tyler Piazza, Jules Pieri, Ruben Pinchanski, Dan Pinnolis, Deeneaus Polk, Andi Pollinger, Iva Poppa, Emma Potvin, Ian Pu, Siya Raj Purohit, Katherine Qian, Andrew Quinn, Angela Quitadamo, Katie Rae, Aaliyah Rainey, Saketh Rama, Manjari Raman, Andrés Ramírez Cardona, Sherwet Rashed, Anuv Ratan, Cate Reavis, Rachel Redmond, Tristian Reid, Sheila Reindl, Nini Ren, Alexander Rendon, Brian Reynolds, Lori Richardson, Lynne Richardson, Andrea Rickey, Paul Riley, Adriana Rivas, Stever Robbins, Jabril Robinson, Maria Rodmell, Joan Ronayne, Tanya Rosbash, Brad Rosen, Arielle Rothman, Izzy Rubin, Maria Ruiz, Ali Saddiq, Ahmad Jawed Sakhi, Roland Salatino, Juaquin Sanchez, Shelby Sandhu, Marilyn Santiesteban, Steve Schewe, Peter Schirripa, Rosalie Schraut, Amna Shaikh, Ali Sharif, Kush Sharma, Emily Shen, Courtney Sherman, Ayane Shiga, Erin Shortell, Amanda Shuey, Jane Shui, Stuti Shukla, Jesse Shulman, María Sigüenza, Zoe Silverman, Christian Simoy, Samuel Singer, Navjeet Singh, Hirsh Sisodia, Alvin Siu, Erik Skantze, Michael Skok, Fran Slutsky, Arman Smigielski, Alexis Smith, Debbie Smith, Fraser Smith, Marta Sobur, Daniela Spagnuolo, Jonathan Sparling, Sunil Sreekanth, Rahul Srinivasan, Vish Srivastava, Caitlin Stanton, Julia Starr, Stephanie Steele, Terry Sterling, Beverley Stevens, Heather Stevenson, Grace Strong, Avinaash Subramaniam, Kent Summers, Edward Sun, Jake Sussman, Theodore Sutherland, Matthew Sutton, Paul Syta, Thomas Taft, Karis Tai, Selena Tan, Audrey Tao, Amy Taul, Chris Taylor, Ryan Tencer, Tyler Terriault, Tracy Terry, Sarah Tesar, Matthew Thomas, Susan Thomas, Kevin Thompson, Jerry Ting, Emma Toh, Michael Trang, Seth Trudeau, David Tsui, Marianna Tu, Matt Tucker, Matt Turzo, Jocelyn Tuttle, Katie Urban, Michael Uy, Amira Valliani, Amy Van Kirk, Cynthia King Vance, James Vander Hooven, Olga Vasileva, David Vencis, Daniela Vera, Claudia Villanueva, Tomas Vita, Triet Vo, Claire Wadlington, Wajieha Waheed, Alyson Wall, Katie Walsh, Annie Wang, Lisa Wang, Marilyn Wang, Michele Wang, Ray Ruichen Wang, RunLin Wang, Susan Wang, Yutong Wang, Tom Ward, Nessim Watson, Ana?lle Pema Weber, Carolina Weber, Howard Wei, Joanne Weiss, Kara Weiss, Scott Westfahl, Daniel Wexler, Megan White, Gabriel Sylvester Wildberger, Tara Wilson, Jason Winmill, Basuki Winoto, Alexis Wolfer, Felix Wong, Matthew Wozny, Allison Wu, Bryan Wu, Dan Wu, Irene Wu, Yifan Wu, Wentao Xiong, Anita Xu, George Xu, Nicolas Xu, Vicky Xu, BerBer Xue, Jonathan Yam, Cha Cha Yang, Cherry Yang, Isabel Yishu Yang, Julie Yen, Jennifer Yoon, Grace Young, Serene Yu, Kevin Yuen, Charlie Zhang, Danny Zhang, Linda Zhang, Peiyi Zhang, Lili Zhao, Selena Zhao, Lucy Zhong, Chris Zhou, Muhammed Ziauddin, Lara Zimmerman, Lillian Zuo, and David Zylberberg. (To anyone I forgot, thank you. My oversight reflects my forgetfulness rather than my lack of gratitude. Please get in touch. I owe you a drink.)

And to all the people who paid it forward to the people above—and who, in turn, made this work possible—know that you too are a part of this relay race. Thank you for your work. Please keep doing what you’re doing.