Rachel Drori comes from from a long line of entrepreneurs – her immigrant grandparents started a business when they got to the United States.  
 
Even more unique: Her mother started a business too, so she grew up around women founders.  
 
Today she's the founder and CEO of Daily Harvest, a young startup that sits at the intersection of nutrition and convenience. You think starting a business is hard? Well, it is. But Rachel started Daily Harvest when she was seven months pregnant, then raised investment funds for the business when she was pregnant. Her story is instructive for anyone who has wondered whether now is the right time to take a big career leap.

44: Never An Easy Time to Do A Hard Thing: Rachel Drori, founder & CEO, Daily Harvest

Louis Hernandez Jr. is the CEO of Avid Technology, a company that makes tools for editing video and audio, and writing music. 

Avid is facing hard times as rival Adobe grows stronger with Premiere and other creative suite tools, and as more software moves to the cloud. 

Hernandez is unique for a lot of reasons. One of them is that he's the Latino CEO of a publicly traded technology company. He recently wrote a book, The Storyteller's Dilemma, about the way technology is changing the media market.  

Louis talked to me about his path to the C -suite, his vision for the future of storytelling, and the factors that made his story so different from many of his cousins in the LA area where he grew up.

45: The Storyteller's Dilemma: Avid CEO Louis Hernandez, Jr.

46 - Hit Refresh with the Power of Empathy: Satya Nadella, Microsoft CEO

Tim O'Reilly had never come in contact with a computer until after college, when a friend asked him to help write a technical manual.&nbsp;&nbsp;It's quite a turn, then, that he has become a promethean figure in Silicon Valley. Like the mythical titan who stole fire from the gods and brought it to mankind, O'Reilly's publishing empire, his conferences and learning platforms have demystified computer languages and tectonic shifts.&nbsp;&nbsp;He literally wrote the book on the Internet, the&nbsp;Internet User's Guide &amp; Catalog, the first popular tome about the subject. He and his events birthed terms like "open source" and "web 2.0," which have become enduring parts of the tech lexicon. His&nbsp;MAKE magazine&nbsp;arguably launched the broader maker movement of hands-on crafters and tinkerers.&nbsp;So naturally I wanted to sit down with Tim to talk about his new book,&nbsp;WTF: What's the Future, and Why It's Up to Us.&nbsp;In it, he has strong words for the Internet-driven tech industry he helped to shape, and some insight for workers like us trying to navigate the new digital landscape.&nbsp;

47 - Tech's Explainer-In-Chief Tackles the Future: Tim O'Reilly, O'Reilly Publishing founder

Chamath Palihapitiya is&nbsp;one of the most sought-after investors in Silicon Valley. It's because he has a knack for figuring out how things work. At Facebook, he led the team that studied our online behavior and figured out how to grow that service from 50 million users when he joined in 2007, to 700 million users when he left four years later.&nbsp;&nbsp;Now as the CEO of venture investing firm Social Capital, he's working on something different: cracking the code to understand how tech is changing our world – and maybe make a few billion dollars in the process. It's quite a journey for Palihapitiya. He grew up poor, an immigrant from Sri Lanka, with a knack for numbers, a talent for gambling, and the proverbial deck stacked against him.&nbsp;I visited Chamath at Social Capital's offices in Palo Alto, California to get an up-close look at how he thinks. One of his deepest insights? Getting the right answer is overrated. Real growth happens from examining our wrong answers.&nbsp;

48 - Beating a Stacked Deck: Chamath Palihapitiya, Social Capital CEO

Jon Fortt co-anchors Squawk Alley on CNBC, and has covered technology and innovation for more than 15 years. Fortt Knox brings you rich ideas and powerful people. Guests include Dell founder Michael Dell, Intel CEO Brian Krzanich, Olympic champion Michael Phelps, and Broadway veteran Rory O'Malley (Hamilton, The Book of Mormon). Join Jon's conversations with power brokers on how they made it, what they value, and what makes them tick.

Fortt Knox with CNBC's Jon Fortt