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William Giuliani and the Architecture of More Time
Across banking, cycling, parenting and the skilled trades, William Giuliani has kept returning to one deceptively simple engineering problem: how can software give ordinary people some of their day back?
Manu Sivanandam Has Spent a Career Turning Complexity Into a Customer Story
From Orbitz deal rooms to immigration operations and software for the trades, Manu Sivanandam has built a career around a durable idea: understand the complicated system, then make it useful to the person at the other end.
Winston Chi
Winston Chi is the co-founder and CEO of NOSO Labs, a Y Combinator (Summer 2025) startup building AI agents that help home-services field technicians diagnose problems, close sales, and handle paperwork. A two-time founder focused on vertical AI, he previously started Butter Technologies, a food-wholesale software platform acquired by GrubMarket in 2024. With NOSO he is aiming the same playbook at the trades, starting with HVAC.
Michael Beaudoin
Michael Beaudoin is the CEO of Housecall Pro, the Denver-based vertical SaaS platform that helps plumbers, electricians, HVAC techs, cleaners and other home-service pros run their businesses from a phone. He joined the company as a board member in 2015 and stepped into the chief executive role in 2020, bringing two decades of experience leading and investing in consumer and home-services companies including HomeAdvisor, Einstein Bros. Bagels, and Waldo Photos, which he co-founded. Under his leadership Housecall Pro has scaled to serve tens of thousands of service businesses and roughly 1,400 employees, raising a $116.5M total war chest including a $65M Series D.