
He passed on familiar names for a seven-person startup, polished its first launch until dawn, watched nobody arrive, and stayed long enough to help rebuild the product around the cloud.

What began as a React component library became HeroUI, a YC-backed attempt to make good interfaces easier for humans and AI agents to build.
WAi Technologies is a Santa Clara-based digital engineering and AI services company that helps enterprises modernize legacy .NET applications and ship software faster. As a long-standing Microsoft partner, it pairs Azure, Dynamics 365 and Power Platform expertise with its own product line: the open-source Raaghu Design System and AI Pundit, an AI toolchain that converts Figma designs into production-ready front-end code. Its current bet is 'spec-driven' AI delivery - keeping humans in control of strategy while AI does the building.