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Liam Ottley and the Long Way Back to an Office
He built an AI business that could travel anywhere. Then he packed for Auckland, put his team in an office and took the cameras inside the companies he wanted to change.
Paul Copplestone Bet on a 40-Year-Old Database - Then AI Came Knocking
Supabase began with a stubborn idea: the easiest backend should also let developers leave. Six years, millions of builders, and one AI coding wave later, Paul Copplestone is still making the case for open infrastructure.
Campbell Brown Is Teaching Machines to Read the Room
The PredictHQ co-founder built a business around a stubborn operational question: what happened in the real world that made demand move? A decade later, that question sits at the center of how enterprises want their AI to reason.
Adrian Macneil Is Building the Debugger for the Physical World
A childhood near New Zealand orchards, a payments detour, and five years inside Cruise taught Adrian Macneil the same lesson: robots need better tools before they can become ordinary. Foxglove is his decade-long bet on the unglamorous infrastructure underneath physical AI.
Alistair McLeay
Alistair McLeay is the Wellington-raised, Cambridge-trained machine learning engineer who co-founded Grw AI, a San Francisco startup building Taylor, an AI sales teammate that coaches and lifts entire sales teams. He shipped product to a million Xero customers, wrote a master's thesis training LLM agents through self-play, built two software companies, and raised Silicon Valley money after a now-legendary poker game. He serves as Co-Founder and Co-CEO.