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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
Amanda Smith
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
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
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
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
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
This founder built an AI tone detection tool

Jun 4, 2026

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3 min read

This founder built an AI tone detection tool

For socially conscious companies and individuals

Amanda Smith
Amanda Smith
This AI recruiter automates first-round interviews

May 27, 2026

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4 min read

This AI recruiter automates first-round interviews

What’s the deal with these AI interviewers?

Amanda Smith
Amanda Smith
This founder built the integrations infrastructure used by big AI labs

May 21, 2026

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3 min read

This founder built the integrations infrastructure used by big AI labs

You’ve probably used it without knowing it

Amanda Smith
Amanda Smith
This founder gets small businesses on streaming platforms

Apr 30, 2026

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4 min read

This founder gets small businesses on streaming platforms

AI is the big unlock

Amanda Smith
Amanda Smith
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
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