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Jamie Chen Knows the Best Systems Feel Like Magic
The professional magician turned revenue operator is building Lovable's go-to-market machinery around a disappearing act: less administration, more time for people.
Joel Soo Makes Software's New Question: Who Gets to Build?
At Lovable, the Boston operator's job begins where the software demo ends: inside rooms where people who never called themselves developers start making tools of their own.
Collin Thigpen Sells the Part After the Magic Trick
After years selling data, cloud and design software, Collin Thigpen arrived at Lovable with a more curious assignment: make instant software credible inside companies built to distrust instant anything.
Muhammad Akif Malhi Is Building for the Part After the Demo
The Techling founder has built his public career around a plain but demanding idea: clever software only matters when it survives contact with a real business.
Ben Collins
Ben Collins is the co-founder and CEO of Woz (YC W25), a San Francisco company building what he calls an 'AI App Factory' - a platform that pairs specialized AI agents with human engineering review to turn plain-English ideas into production-ready, business-grade apps without writing code. An MIT-trained engineer who spent years in venture capital and partnerships before founding, Collins built Woz with his MIT classmate of 13 years, Brad Eckert. The company raised a $6M seed round in October 2025 led by Cervin Ventures, and also ships WOZCODE, a Claude Code plugin that cuts AI coding costs by up to half.
Charlie Newark-French
Charlie Newark-French is the CEO of Cascade, an AI-powered strategy execution platform used by roughly 400 enterprises including PepsiCo, Roche, St. Jude and the World Wildlife Fund. A four-time enterprise software CEO who previously ran Hyperscience and Sharpen, he started at McKinsey, holds a BA from Oxford and an MBA from Harvard, and argues that strategy should run like a live operating system rather than a PowerPoint deck. He hosts the executive podcast 'This Way Forward.'