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Gene Miguel Put the Comic Shop in Your Pocket
He spent weekends behind convention tables, watched collectors wrestle with dated tools, and turned the nuisance into Shortboxed. Gene Miguel’s useful trick was treating fandom as product research.
Bogdan Nesvit
Bogdan Nesvit is the Ukrainian co-founder and co-CEO of Holywater, an AI-first entertainment company he started in Kyiv in March 2020 with Anatolii Kasianov. What began with a failed live-wallpaper app grew into a global media ecosystem - My Drama, My Passion, and My Muse - that reaches tens of millions of users across more than 190 countries. Holywater turned vertical, phone-sized microdramas into a serious format, drew a strategic investment from Fox Entertainment, and in January 2026 raised a $22 million Series A, the largest microdrama round outside Asia.
Jacob Navok
Jacob Navok is the co-founder and CEO of Genvid Holdings, the New York company betting that audiences would rather steer a story than just watch it. He coined the category MILE - Massively Interactive Live Event - and shipped it with Silent Hill: Ascension and The Walking Dead: Last Mile, where hundreds of thousands of viewers vote, bid, and play their way into canon. Before Genvid he ran worldwide business development at Square Enix and built its cloud gaming arm, Shinra Technologies. He raised $113M in a 2021 Series C to turn interactive streaming from a technology into a consumer brand.
Fareed Mosavat
Fareed Mosavat is a Visiting Partner at a16z Speedrun, a 12-week founder accelerator at the intersection of technology and entertainment. He came to venture capital after a career arc that started in physics simulation at Pixar and wound through product and growth leadership at Zynga, RunKeeper, Instacart, and Slack, before he ran product education for thousands of PMs as Chief Development Officer at Reforge. Today he backs AI-native B2B startups, co-hosts the Unsolicited Feedback podcast with Brian Balfour, and writes about what it actually takes to build products people love.