Five-act journeys from founders worth listening to. Problem, journey, struggles, breakthrough, lessons — editor-curated, never pay-to-post.
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Alexandr Wang founded Scale AI at 19 and became one of the youngest self-made billionaires. In 2025 Meta acquired a 49% stake in Scale and brought Wang in to lead its superintelligence lab.
Fei-Fei Li built ImageNet, catalysed the modern computer-vision revolution, ran Google Cloud's AI organisation, co-directed Stanford HAI, and in 2024 founded World Labs to build spatial-intelligence models.
Mira Murati served as OpenAI's Chief Technology Officer through the launch of ChatGPT, GPT-4, and the model families that defined 2023–24. In February 2025 she announced Thinking Machines Lab, the AI company she was founding with a large team of former OpenAI staff.
Dario Amodei co-founded Anthropic in 2021 with his sister Daniela and five other OpenAI researchers. Five years later Anthropic is a top-three frontier lab and Claude is one of the most-used AI assistants in the world.
Aravind Srinivas co-founded Perplexity AI in 2022 with a specific thesis: the answer engine, not the link engine, was the next default. Three years later Perplexity is one of the most-cited AI companies in the world.
Aidan Gomez was 20 years old and interning at Google Brain when he became one of the eight authors of the transformer paper that reshaped modern AI. Six years later he co-founded Cohere with a specific bet: enterprise-focused AI was a different business from consumer AI.
Michael Truell and his co-founders built Anysphere from an MIT dorm-room bet into the company behind Cursor — the AI-native IDE that reset expectations for what a coding tool could be.
Most insurtech startups die selling to MGAs. We bet the company on selling directly to a 200-year-old carrier. It worked, barely.
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