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This foodie founder built an AI sous chef

Apr 21, 2026

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3 min read

This foodie founder built an AI sous chef

Eat and earn, with this AI tool

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

Apr 9, 2026

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3 min read

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

70 people. $250M ARR. Zero marketing.

Amanda Smith
Amanda Smith
This founder built a faster way to test software

Apr 2, 2026

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8 min read

This founder built a faster way to test software

Ship faster and break less

Amanda Smith
Amanda Smith
This founder’s AI tool helps fund retirements

Mar 26, 2026

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9 min read

This founder’s AI tool helps fund retirements

He’s making financial planning fun

Amanda Smith
Amanda Smith
This founder is building AdSense for AI

Mar 19, 2026

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11 min read

This founder is building AdSense for AI

Monetization is built into the experience, elegantly

Amanda Smith
Amanda Smith
She built AI shopping agents before ChatGPT

Mar 12, 2026

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9 min read

She built AI shopping agents before ChatGPT

Now she’s building Wizard alongside former Walmart e-commerce CEO Marc Lore.

Amanda Smith
Amanda Smith
The founder behind the AI answering 800,000 calls

Mar 5, 2026

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10 min read

The founder behind the AI answering 800,000 calls

Inside the startup reinventing the business phone.

Amanda Smith
Amanda Smith
This career coach turned herself into an AI recruiter

Feb 26, 2026

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10 min read

This career coach turned herself into an AI recruiter

She productized herself

Amanda Smith
Amanda Smith
This founder is building the new AI royalty model for authors

Feb 19, 2026

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10 min read

This founder is building the new AI royalty model for authors

AI might turn out to be great for writers

Amanda Smith
Amanda Smith
The 55-year-old first-time AI founder

Feb 12, 2026

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9 min read

The 55-year-old first-time AI founder

She pulled money from her retirement to create the prototype

Amanda Smith
Amanda Smith
This founder raised $42M to bring every creative AI model in one interface

Feb 5, 2026

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8 min read

This founder raised $42M to bring every creative AI model in one interface

The creative team of the future

Amanda Smith
Amanda Smith
How a New York professor became an award-winning AI producer

Jan 30, 2026

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8 min read

How a New York professor became an award-winning AI producer

She’s an AI-enhanced video pioneer

Amanda Smith
Amanda Smith
This “retired” software engineer bootstrapped his AI HR platform

Jan 22, 2026

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8 min read

This “retired” software engineer bootstrapped his AI HR platform

No VC money needed

Amanda Smith
Amanda Smith
The ex-Meta research scientist building an AI chief-of-staff

Jan 15, 2026

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9 min read

The ex-Meta research scientist building an AI chief-of-staff

No more digital drudgery...

Amanda Smith
Amanda Smith
This ex-Google engineer’s $8M bet on social AI

Jan 8, 2026

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10 min read

This ex-Google engineer’s $8M bet on social AI

His ideal user might surprise you

Amanda Smith
Amanda Smith
Why a former Google and Tinder exec is going all in on restaurant AI

Dec 18, 2025

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8 min read

Why a former Google and Tinder exec is going all in on restaurant AI

She built at Meta and LinkedIn, then quit to launch an AI agent inside real restaurants

Amanda Smith
Amanda Smith
The founder pioneering fertility’s AI revolution

Dec 11, 2025

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10 min read

The founder pioneering fertility’s AI revolution

She’s an ex-patient and biomedical engineer

Amanda Smith
Amanda Smith
This first-time AI founder is doing $250M+/year

Dec 4, 2025

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9 min read

This first-time AI founder is doing $250M+/year

Going shoulder-to-shoulder with Google & OpenAI

Amanda Smith
Amanda Smith
How this ex-LinkedIn product lead is using AI to fix healthcare

Nov 25, 2025

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9 min read

How this ex-LinkedIn product lead is using AI to fix healthcare

Disrupting archaic healthcare admin

Amanda Smith
Amanda Smith
How this a16z-backed AI founder is fixing hiring

Nov 20, 2025

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9 min read

How this a16z-backed AI founder is fixing hiring

He’s rewriting the rules of hiring

Amanda Smith
Amanda Smith
This founder created the AI “Canva for AR”

Nov 13, 2025

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10 min read

This founder created the AI “Canva for AR”

AR is having its moment...

Amanda Smith
Amanda Smith
This founder built a $3 billion business revolutionizing brokerages

Nov 6, 2025

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9 min read

This founder built a $3 billion business revolutionizing brokerages

Real estate was ripe for disruption.

Amanda Smith
Amanda Smith
The founder bringing AI to “I do”

Oct 28, 2025

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9 min read

The founder bringing AI to “I do”

No more bridezillas.

Amanda Smith
Amanda Smith
This founder built the famous AI robot teacher

Oct 23, 2025

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9 min read

This founder built the famous AI robot teacher

We love a good underdog story.

Amanda Smith
Amanda Smith
From Hilton director to hotel unicorn founder

Oct 16, 2025

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10 min read

From Hilton director to hotel unicorn founder

Integrating AI was the big ah-ha moment

Amanda Smith
Amanda Smith
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