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Brad Murdoch Is Betting the Help Desk’s Future Lives Behind Your Firewall
After two decades around B2B software and a string of acquired companies, Deskpro CEO Brad Murdoch is making a quieter AI pitch: useful automation, human judgment and infrastructure the security team can actually approve.
David Lanstein Is Building the Search Bar His Old Team Needed
He went from writing software at Splunk to scaling sales at PagerDuty. The costly search habits he watched form along the way became the operating thesis for Atolio.
David Stout
David Stout is the co-founder and CEO of webAI, an Austin-based company building private, on-device artificial intelligence that runs on hardware people already own instead of centralized cloud data centers. Raised on a cattle ranch in northern Michigan, he taught himself to compress large AI models onto phones, laptops and edge hardware, and founded webAI in 2019 with Ethan Baird and Tyler Mauer. The company reached a $2.5 billion valuation in January 2026 on the thesis that the most valuable AI of the future will be sovereign, distributed and local rather than rented from Silicon Valley hyperscalers.