Add Series Six: Tech CEOs (50 cards) - #17
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Every other set here cards the person who wrote the thing. This one cards the person who decided it would be built, priced, staffed and, the axis this site actually cares about, whether it would be given away. That last part is why a CEO set belongs on an open source card collection at all. Gerstner put a billion dollars behind Linux in 2000 and made it acceptable in enterprise procurement. McNealy opened NFS, Solaris and Java. Nadella took over a company whose previous CEO called Linux a cancer, shipped a Linux kernel inside Windows and bought GitHub. Huang's proprietary driver is why Torvalds is on film insulting a graphics vendor, and the same company opened its GPU kernel modules in 2022. None of those were engineering decisions. Being admired is not the bar and neither is being liked. Gates is carded with the Open Letter to Hobbyists and the Sherman Act ruling on the same card. Rated on product / operating / openness / influence, because the Series Five axes do not travel: rating a chief executive on technical depth mostly measures how long ago they stopped writing code. The no-duplicates rule holds. Fifteen founders and chief executives are already carded in Series One to Five (Shuttleworth, Mullenweg, Hykes, Hassabis, Amodei and the rest), so they are linked from the roster page rather than repeated. Likeness rule, same as Series Three to Five ------------------------------------------- Portraits are painted from an identified photograph or the card gets no face. 49 of 50 resolved on the first pass, the highest rate of any set here: public company CEOs get photographed at conferences by people who upload to Commons. Every accepted photo carries its photographer credit through to the card page. The exception is Sid Sijbrandij. No Commons file, no Wikidata P18, and the obvious fallback avatar is served by an account whose API record has a null name and a very recent numeric id, so it cannot be tied to him the way the Series Four and Five avatar overrides were. That card ships with the no-face plate. All 49 portraits were reviewed by eye as contact sheets before being promoted to assets/portraits/tech-ceos/. Two are worth a second opinion: Jim Whitehurst was painted from a 1024x483 keynote frame, and Nat Friedman from a 2005 photograph, so he looks two decades younger than he does now. Both are honest derivatives of identified photographs rather than inventions. The date guard stays out, for a different reason than Series Five. The earliest person here was born in 1912, so a 1950s photograph of Packard or Watson is exactly right; namesakes are caught by the surname and description tests in looksRight(), which are specific rather than chronological. FIELD is wider on the business side because Wikidata describes these people as "business magnate" and "chief executive officer" rather than "computer scientist". enhance is never called, same as Series Three to Five. All 100 faces are the text-accurate HTML render. Other notes ----------- Every one of the 124 source URLs was verified 200 before landing. Four of the first drafts were not: the Tesla patent-pledge blog post 403s every fetcher, the Gerstner book and Apache Dubbo have no Wikipedia articles under those titles, and the LinkedIn engineering post carrying Jay Kreps' "The Log" is gone from its original URL and is cited from the Wayback Machine instead. 44 of the 50 scouting reports were over the panel's ~65 word budget on the first draft and were rewritten to fit. Series Five has zero of those warnings and this set now matches; an over-length report clips on the printed card back. The card template carried "WOMEN IN TECH" in the crest, hardcoded, which shipped into the first render of all 50 fronts before it was caught by eye. Fixed and re-rendered. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_018QcmyBgG3St5hh4TJHVQaD
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Series Six, fifty cards at
/tech-ceos, following the Series Four and Five shape: hand-curated roster, per-card pages, OG images, and portraits painted from verified photographs.Why a CEO set belongs here
Every other set on this site cards the person who wrote the thing. This one cards the person who decided it would be built, and whether it would be given away. That is the axis the openness stat measures, and it is what makes the set worth printing:
Being admired is not the bar. Gates is carded with the Open Letter to Hobbyists and the Sherman Act ruling on the same card.
Stat axes
product/operating/openness/influence. The Series Five axes do not travel — rating a chief executive on technical depth mostly measures how long ago they stopped writing code.No duplicates
Fifteen founders and chief executives are already carded in Series One to Five (Shuttleworth, Mullenweg, Hykes, Hashimoto, Buytaert, Widenius, Hassabis, Amodei, Delangue, Mensch, Baker and others). They are linked from the roster page rather than repeated.
Likeness
49 of 50 resolved to a verified photograph on the first pass, the highest rate of any set here — public-company CEOs get photographed at conferences by people who upload to Commons. Photographer credits flow through to each card page.
Sid Sijbrandij gets no face. No Commons file, no Wikidata P18, and the obvious fallback avatar is served by an account whose API record has a null name and a very recent numeric id, so it cannot be verified as him the way the Series Four and Five avatar overrides were. The reason is recorded in
scripts/ceo-refs.mjsso a rerun cannot quietly undo the call.All 49 portraits were reviewed by eye as contact sheets before promotion to
assets/portraits/tech-ceos/. Two worth a second opinion: Jim Whitehurst was painted from a 1024x483 keynote frame, and Nat Friedman from a 2005 photograph, so he looks two decades younger than he does today. Both are honest derivatives of identified photographs rather than inventions, but they are the two I would re-source first.enhanceis never called. All 100 faces are the text-accurate HTML render.Three things caught during the build
ceo-template.mjsinheritedWOMEN IN TECHin the card crest and shipped it into the first render of all 50 fronts. Caught by eye on a published face, fixed, re-rendered. Worth knowing before a seventh set is cloned from a sixth.Date guard
Stays out, for a different reason than Series Five. The earliest person here was born in 1912, so a 1950s photograph of Packard or Watson is exactly right, and namesakes are caught by the surname and description tests in
looksRight()instead.FIELDis wider on the business side because Wikidata calls these people "business magnate" and "chief executive officer" rather than "computer scientist".Checks
npx tsc --noEmitcleanpnpm ceos:validate— 50 on the roster, 1 warning (the intentional no-face card)pnpm build— 568 static pages, 49 card pages plus OG images🤖 Generated with Claude Code
https://claude.ai/code/session_018QcmyBgG3St5hh4TJHVQaD