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Brandon Brock Has Been Recruiting People Into Rooms His Whole Career
Before he recruited teams for healthcare AI, Brandon Brock built apps, backed restaurants, produced a sailing film and opened a wine bar. The through-line is not an industry. It is his instinct for getting interesting people into the same room.
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.
Erbil Karaman Is Trying to Make Money Move at Internet Speed
After building products at Facebook, Lyft and EarnIn, the Turkish-American founder found his next problem hiding in the days between a payment and its arrival.
Erik Geisler Changed the Channel, Then Opened the Door
After three decades spent finding new ways for brands to reach people, Erik Geisler made a tactile bet: that the next useful interface might be a front door in Brooklyn.
Christian Facey
Christian Facey is the co-founder and CEO of Audiomob, the London-based company that built the first non-intrusive audio advertising platform for mobile games. A former Google agency strategist and Facebook marketing science partner, he combined his advertising background with hobbies in game development and hip hop/jazz production to spot a gap: the mobile gaming and audio ad industries had never been connected. He launched Audiomob in 2020 with co-founder Wilfrid Obeng, raised a $14M Series A at a valuation north of $110M, and landed on the Forbes 30 Under 30 list in 2021.
Ahmed Gaballah
Ahmed Gaballah is the founder and CEO of SOKNA, Egypt's first end-to-end funeral services platform. After 16 years in California building products at Google, Adobe and Facebook, he returned to Cairo in 2019 to fix one of the messiest, most painful logistics problems anyone ever faces: burying a loved one. SOKNA handles paperwork, body preparation, transport, cemetery setup, condolence halls and repatriation, and has grown into a profitable operation serving families across every Egyptian governorate, with a cemetery project and international expansion now in motion.