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If you’ve been reading along, you know I love spotlighting founders who show us what’s possible when ambition meets execution. From Silicon Valley veterans reinventing small business to teenagers coding viral apps on school buses, these stories remind us how fast the AI wave is reshaping work, creativity, and legacy.
Here’s a quick look back at some of my favorite conversations you may have missed:
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Ronak Trivedi went from building UberPOOL with Travis Kalanick to launching Pietra, a platform that helps small businesses spin up entire ecommerce brands with AI agents. Think design, sourcing, logistics, even influencer outreach — all automated in minutes. His bet? AI won’t replace creativity, but it will give the smallest teams Fortune 500 firepower.
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At 17, Rexan Wong turned “vibe coding” into a playbook for launching viral apps. What started as tinkering in Photoshop spiraled into a text-to-image tool that pulled in hundreds of thousands of users overnight. His mantra: ship fast, build in public, and let your audience tell you what to charge.
Robert LoCascio, the founder behind the original website chatbot, is now building Eternos — personal AI “brains” that replicate knowledge, memory, and even personality. From preserving legacies to training enterprise teams, he believes the future of AI isn’t replacing workers but expanding human potential.
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