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Gary Apito
Gary Apito is the Chief Executive Officer of Rouxbe, the online culinary school that has trained more than one million students across 180 countries. A career culinary-education operator, he spent seventeen years helping build the French Culinary Institute and International Culinary Center in New York before moving into online learning, joining Rouxbe in 2016 and rising from VP of Operations to COO to CEO. His focus is scaling professional-grade cooking instruction through high-definition video as traditional brick-and-mortar culinary schools close worldwide.
Parsnip
Parsnip is a New York-based consumer AI startup building the "Duolingo for cooking" - a personalized learning engine that teaches people to cook through short, gamified lessons instead of just handing them recipes. Founded by PhDs Andrew Mao and Dan Sosa, the app maps cooking into a knowledge graph of 400+ skill levels and uses a human-in-the-loop LLM system to generate lessons, teaching the hows and whys behind food so novice cooks gain confidence in the kitchen.
Andrew Mao
Andrew Mao is the co-founder and CEO of Parsnip, an AI-powered learning app often called 'Duolingo for cooking' that helps novices build real confidence in the kitchen. A Harvard computer-science PhD and former computational social scientist, he ran the longest iterated prisoner's dilemma experiment ever conducted, built ML systems at neural-interface startup CTRL-labs (acquired by Facebook), and now applies the science of how people learn to the very human problem of figuring out what's for dinner.