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Founder · Executive · Creator
David Yu and the trouble with pressing play
A frustrating college lecture sent David Yu into a dorm-room building spree. YouLearn grew from that impatience into an AI tutor for millions, with a harder question at its center: what makes someone come back to learn?
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Founder · Creator · Executive
Max Gallinek Keeps Building Until the Alarm Rings
A college founder turned a fast-food shortcut into a product, and a lifelong fascination with water into his next experiment. The interesting part is not the variety of ideas. It is how readily he lets the weaker ones go.
max-gallinek · rise-alarmRead →
Founder · Operator · Engineer
Dimittri Choudhury Keeps Changing the Problem - and Keeping the Co-founder
At 19, he traded a French engineering-school track for a $50 Tenderloin room, an unreliable Wi-Fi connection and a Y Combinator interview. Three products later, the constant is less glamorous: Alexandre Klobb is still beside him, and each pivot begins with a problem they have felt up close.
french-founder · y-combinatorRead →