
He left UCL after discovering how much he could build outside the lecture hall. With Sparkles, Ai Daniil Bekirov is working on another kind of freedom: helping colleagues change software without waiting for someone else.

At 21, the Ukrainian founder has moved from ten hackathon wins and a UCL exit to a $3.5 million bet on a deceptively human idea: your colleagues should be able to change software without first becoming Git people.