Bryan Leach left a fast-track legal career—clerking on the Second Circuit and the U.S. Supreme Court—to found Ibotta, pulling together its first funding from 51 angel investors after being turned down by Silicon Valley VC firms, and he credits the same skills he used persuading juries and judges in court with helping him persuade investors, employees, and clients later on. Born in Nairobi and educated at Harvard, Oxford, and Yale before settling in Colorado, he has also summited all 58 of the state's fourteeners, adding an unusually personal and international backstory to his career as an investor.