# Michael Ioffe

> Michael Ioffe is the New York-based CEO and co-founder of Arist and the founder of TILE, a student-led entrepreneurship conversation network he began in Portland. His work spans educational access, message-based employee learning, and AI agents. He attended Babson College as a Weissman Scholar, was named to the Forbes 30 Under 30 education class of 2021, and became a Thiel Fellow in 2023.

- **Role:** CEO and co-founder at Arist
- **Organizations:** Arist, TILE.org, Energy.org, The Thiel Foundation
- **Education:** Attended; did not complete a degree; Weissman Scholar, Babson College, Lincoln High School, Portland, Startup accelerator, Summer 2020 batch, Y Combinator
- **Known for:** 2017 Diller Teen Tikkun Olam Award recipient., We Are Family Foundation Global Teen Leader, 2017., Babson Weissman Scholar.

## Career timeline

- **2015** — Founded the student conversation initiative that became TILE.
- **2017** — Received a Diller Teen Tikkun Olam Award and entered Babson as a Weissman Scholar.
- **2018** — Early Arist text-course experiments were reported in May; later company biographies often use 2019 as the founding year.
- **2020** — Arist participated in Y Combinator Summer 2020.
- **2021** — Named to Forbes 30 Under 30 in Education.
- **2023** — Named to the Thiel Fellowship class announced February 9.
- **2026** — Discussed the Department of Labor-Arist AI literacy initiative at ASU+GSV; Arist’s current website describes AI research agents.

## Achievements

- 2017 Diller Teen Tikkun Olam Award recipient.
- We Are Family Foundation Global Teen Leader, 2017.
- Babson Weissman Scholar.
- Forbes 30 Under 30, Education, class of 2021.
- Thiel Fellow, class announced February 2023.
- Founded TILE, reported at more than 240 chapters in 40 countries in February 2018.

## Latest updates

- **2026-03** — Arist and the U.S. Department of Labor announced Make America AI-Ready, a free seven-day AI literacy course delivered by SMS.
- **2026-04** — Discussed the initiative with Jennifer Lee at the 2026 ASU+GSV Summit.
- **2026-10** — At research time, Arist’s website positioned the company around AI research agents that interview people and analyze organizational data; this is an observation date, not a launch date.

## Links

- Website: http://ioffe.space
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelaioffe
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/MichaelIoffe

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