
A finance student who taught himself Python tried dozens of ventures before a $10 Fiverr listing took hold. Now his work is less about selling prompts than teaching companies to use AI with some discipline.
For a decade, Tommy Thompson has explained the intelligence that makes games feel alive. Now the former lecturer is helping studios decide which new AI ideas deserve to enter the game at all.

After two decades inside the unforgiving machinery of logistics, Lori Stinson is bringing an operator’s instinct to AI - fewer shiny demos, more systems that make Monday morning work.