Before he became MindFi’s CEO, Leon CK Leong helped build a business in a 90-square-foot university office. His career keeps returning to a deceptively practical question: what happens after people connect?

He found a continental software problem hiding inside spreadsheets, PDFs and millions of nearly identical parts. His answer was to make the automotive aftermarket legible - one catalog, reseller and country at a time.

The Rivia.AI co-founder has spent his career making complicated software easier to grasp. His second act applies the same instinct to history, culture, and a growing YouTube audience.