
Before Twine became an AI revenue engine, its central insight lived inside a high-school contracting business: every unanswered ring could be a customer walking away. Anand Valavalkar has spent the years since turning that small-business lesson into software.
Lawrence Coburn is the co-founder and CEO of Ambient, an AI chief of staff for founders, CEOs and leadership teams. A four-time founder, he previously built DoubleDutch (the leading mobile event app, acquired by Cvent in 2019), twine (employee connection software for remote teams) and RateItAll (one of the early consumer review sites). Based in San Francisco's Mission District, he combines a generalist's appetite for new platforms with two decades of operating scars.