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Michael McIntyre Built for the Moment Before the Scroll
Before Fam tried to replace the feed with a room full of faces, Michael McIntyre learned how social products behave from nearly every seat inside Facebook. His career is a study in the stubborn problem of making a phone feel more like company.
Armand Saramout Keeps Finding the Growth Lever Nobody Labeled
Before Daily.fun, there were election dispatches, Atlanta street teams, an AI video editor, a social metaverse, and a prediction market. Armand Saramout’s career is a study in making participation feel like the product.
Joe Kennedy Has Been Building With the Same Friend Since YouTube Was Young
Before Mixy reached No. 1 in Music, Joe Kennedy and Jonah Siegle spent 16 years learning how to make things together. Their advantage was less a lightning strike than a very long conversation.
Alex Ruber Kept Pivoting Until a Tiny Daily Ritual Caught Fire
After NASA, Apple, a music app, an AI shopping engine, and months in “pivot hell,” the Candle co-founder found his signal in one-minute acts of attention.
Holly Fowler Built the Social App the Swipe Era Forgot
A lockdown idea, two years of midnight work and one unusually specific product thesis carried Holly Fowler from a Melbourne couch to a Times Square billboard.
Avante Price Is Building the Exit Door From the Feed
He learned to DJ at five, built a marketplace at 15, and left NYU to turn a student-party workaround into Posh. His wager is simple: the next useful social network may be the one that persuades you to close it.
Liam McGregor
Liam McGregor is the founder and CEO of Marriage Pact, the campus matchmaking phenomenon he built in 2017 as a Stanford economics class project and turned into a company that has matched hundreds of thousands of students across 100-plus colleges. Trained in computer science and economics, McGregor treats romance as a market-design problem, pairing people on deep values rather than looks or swipes. Before Marriage Pact he was an early team member at self-driving startup Luminar and worked in data science at Microsoft. He is also a competitive classical guitarist and self-described 'closet urbanist.'