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Armand Iorgulescu Learned Politics the Hard Way - Then Built a Machine to Read the Fine Print
A bill died in the final 48 hours because one quiet line escaped the people paid to watch it. For Armand Iorgulescu, that miss became the blueprint for Fed10.
Mitchell Fogelson Is Folding a Power Plant Into a Rocket
The Beyond Reach Labs co-founder turned a PhD in deployable structures into a bet on orbital power - and a 16,000-square-foot Brooklyn factory built to make space hardware repeatable.
Narayana Aaditya Wants Your Coding Agents to Remember the Good Bits
The Skillsync co-founder spent years helping payment systems talk to one another. Now he is trying to make coding agents, teammates and their hard-won context speak the same language.
Peter Bai Is Turning Market Friction Into an Execution Business
He entered exchange infrastructure at 17, joined a $12.8 billion fund a year later, and found his startup idea in a trade that was too awkward to place. Now Sequence Markets wants one market view to become one executable path.
Iqbol Temirkhojaev Started Coding at 11. Now He Is Teaching Legal Work to Move Faster.
The Wayco founder's unusual timeline runs from programming Olympiads in Tajikistan to Y Combinator in New York. His most useful lesson is less cinematic: launch sooner, listen harder, and learn the market before polishing the machine.
Lotanna Ezeike Is Turning Performance Into a Paycheck
A sprinter became a creator, a banker and a serial founder. Now, after four app exits and one public failure, Lotanna Ezeike is building Grade around a stubborn question: what if payroll paid for outcomes?