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George Parks Found a Million-Dollar Tollbooth in Government Software. So He Started Taking It Apart.
A Georgia Tech coder went to the State Department, met the bureaucracy from the inside, and came back with Archon - a bet that the dullest obstacle in software may be one of the most valuable to remove.
Kasey Zhang Is Teaching AI Agents to Practice
The former esports founder and AI investor is betting that useful agents will be shaped less by bigger prompts than by disciplined feedback, repeated practice and rewards that measure the work.
Rayan Ghandour Is Turning Pharma’s Rolodex Into a Search Engine
A chemistry-and-economics graduate saw pharmaceutical collaboration getting lost in spreadsheets, consultants, and familiar names. Now he is building G LNK to make expertise searchable - and opportunity less dependent on who already knows whom.
Erin Kim Is Teaching AI to Survive Month-End
The former banker spent years turning Carta's accounting rituals into software. Now she and a trusted collaborator are building Mesh around a harder promise: AI that shows its work.
Shahryar Hasnani Is Turning the Dollar Account Into an Export
The economics graduate who also studied fiction went from explaining zero-knowledge rollups to rebuilding dollar access for markets traditional fintech routinely leaves waiting.
Mattia Mauro Is Building the Tutor He Wanted for His Little Sister
A physics tournament, a broken childhood computer, and one stubborn question about how students really learn led Mattia Mauro from research and investing to the classroom.
Josh Sabol Made 546 Cold Calls Before the Door Opened
Before Y Combinator said yes, the HealthKey founder logged 727 days, five product iterations and one memorably stubborn sales campaign. His story is a study in turning rejection into operating data.
Daniel Gibbon Gave Up Medicine to Fix the Red Pen
He had a medical-school place, a perfect university GPA and a tidy future. Then hundreds of teacher conversations persuaded him that the higher-leverage problem was hiding in a pile of unmarked essays.
Four McDonald’s Rejections, One One-Way Ticket, and Saurav Bubber’s Sales-Software Bet
He once wanted a life on the golf course. Instead, a bank counter, a consulting desk and Deel’s crowded sales stack led him to FuseAI - and a distinctly operator-shaped idea of what AI should do for sellers.
James Zammit Is Teaching Voice AI to Survive Tuesday
After two startups arrived early and one finance product made precision non-negotiable, the Roark co-founder found his problem in the gap between a polished demo and an ordinary production call.
Lukas Bock Learned the Trades by Hand. Now He Is Teaching AI the Catalog.
A fourth-generation trades story took a detour through Allianz, Google X and Cambridge. At Mercura, Lukas Bock is bringing that education home - one unruly bill of quantities at a time.
From Smart Sprinklers to Insider Risk, Adarsh Ambati Follows the Signal
Before Candor began stitching together the clues behind insider risk, its founder spent years studying another kind of waste: sprinklers watering California lawns at the wrong time. The domains changed. His habit of following overlooked signals did not.
Gaurav Luhariwala Changed the Market, Not the Mission
He began with bank credit rules and arrived at a job agent in WhatsApp. The industries changed; Gaurav Luhariwala’s appetite for removing slow decisions did not.