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Jun 18, 2026

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This founder built a simulation platform for FDA submissions

Jun 11, 2026

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This AI music video generator platform does $5M ARR

Jun 4, 2026

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This founder built an AI tone detection tool

May 27, 2026

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This AI recruiter automates first-round interviews

May 21, 2026

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This founder built the integrations infrastructure used by big AI labs

Apr 30, 2026

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This founder gets small businesses on streaming platforms

Apr 21, 2026

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This foodie founder built an AI sous chef

Apr 9, 2026

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They hit unicorn status faster than nearly any AI company in history

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This founder built a faster way to test software

Mar 26, 2026

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This founder’s AI tool helps fund retirements

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This serial founder built a voice AI agent for older adults

Aug 6, 2026

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This serial founder built a voice AI agent for older adults

He’s bullish on voice as the preventative-care layer for the aging population.

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This founder raised $103M to fix general ledger accounting software

Jul 30, 2026

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This founder raised $103M to fix general ledger accounting software

This once unglamorous category is now a major AI battleground

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Commentaries

A social network for AI agents? Yes, it’s real.

May 14, 2026

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A social network for AI agents? Yes, it’s real.

Bots and their creepy plots

BYAmanda Smith

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Are AI agents the new SaaS?

May 7, 2026

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3 min read

Are AI agents the new SaaS?

The SaaS apocalypse

BYAmanda Smith

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AI will reshape jobs, not replace them

Apr 28, 2026

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3 min read

AI will reshape jobs, not replace them

Don’t believe everything you read on Reddit

BYAmanda Smith

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What’s really behind the TBPN-OpenAI deal?

Apr 23, 2026

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What’s really behind the TBPN-OpenAI deal?

It’s not what you might think

BYAmanda Smith

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Founder stories

This co-founder raised $20M to use AI to bring toys to life

Jul 23, 2026

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4 min read

This co-founder raised $20M to use AI to bring toys to life

He’s bullish on the $43M “kidult” industry

Amanda Smith
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Founder stories

The AI founder who sold his company to ClickUp

Jul 16, 2026

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5 min read

The AI founder who sold his company to ClickUp

It now powers ClickUp Brain

Amanda Smith
Amanda Smith

Founder stories

This technologist built a tool to check AI’s wellbeing

Jul 9, 2026

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3 min read

This technologist built a tool to check AI’s wellbeing

She calls it a welfare protocol

Amanda Smith
Amanda Smith

Founder stories

This founder built the AI OS for DTC companies

Jun 25, 2026

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4 min read

This founder built the AI OS for DTC companies

Helping small companies 10x their size

Amanda Smith
Amanda Smith

Founder stories

This founder built a simulation platform for FDA submissions

Jun 18, 2026

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3 min read

This founder built a simulation platform for FDA submissions

And created a new category of AI tools

Amanda Smith
Amanda Smith

Founder stories

This AI music video generator platform does $5M ARR

Jun 11, 2026

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4 min read

This AI music video generator platform does $5M ARR

Long live the music video

Amanda Smith
Amanda Smith
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