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Connor Jones Is Building a Place Where AI Work Can Stick Around
After years inside finance and operations, the BitBoard co-founder is giving AI analysis a memory - with dashboards, traceable logic and a stubborn respect for work that can be checked.
Aum Upadhyay Is Teaching AI Security to Learn From the Break-In
Before Silmaril, he built experiments, a science nonprofit and security systems at AWS. Now his company is betting that every verified attack can make the next defense sharper.
Angela McNeal Is Building for AI’s Messy Middle
After a decade putting machine learning to work inside complex institutions, the Thread AI co-founder has a clear thesis: the clever model is only the beginning. The consequential work is making it useful, governed and dependable.
Austin Lo Learned the Hard Way That a Virtual Tour Is Only the Front Door
A failed VR novelty, a roommate found on Craigslist and one brutal Friday call taught Peek's founder to build around the renter's decision - not the technology's novelty.
Dan Albritton
Dan Albritton is the CEO and co-founder of Megaphone TV, the company he calls the world's first Participation Entertainment Studio. Trained as a biomedical engineer at Columbia and as an interaction designer at NYU's ITP, he works in the seam between television production and game design - building the live polls, trivia, contests, and interactive on-air graphics that let viewers tap their phones and steer a broadcast in real time. Before Megaphone he co-founded iminlikewithyou, the studio that became OMGPOP and was later acquired by Zynga. Megaphone TV has earned an Emmy Award and multiple nominations, and its software appears in 24 of the top 25 US broadcast markets and on streamers worldwide.