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• The Youngest Iranian Billionaire I Ali Ansari, Founder & CEO of micro1

  September 28, 2026 · 59 min

  Ali Ansari was born in Tehran, moved to the US at 10, graduated Berkeley in three years, and started micro1 as an AI recruiter in April 2022. Then one customer hired 500 engineers in two weeks. Ali figured out they were training models…

• She Took Fitbit From $700M to $2.2B | Yasi Baiani

  September 15, 2026 · 1 hr 10 min

  Yasi Baiani built sleep and female health at Fitbit, took revenue from $700M to $2.2B, and watched Google buy the company for $2.1B. She started at Citi, moved into venture, launched a startup out of Harvard Innovation Lab alongside Whoop…

• Is AI Revenue Inflated? | The Dejima Mafia

  August 2, 2026 · 1 hr 22 min

  Babak Hodjat has been building AI agents since 1998. He said that in front of a room in San Francisco last week, sitting next to his brother Siamak for the first time in 25 years. His argument is narrower than the bubble talk, and more…

• Ramin Hassani I Co-Founder & CEO of Liquid AI

  July 7, 2026 · 1 hr 28 min

  Ramin Hasani is the co-founder and CEO of Liquid AI, and he has done what almost no one in AI has: built a real alternative to the transformer, the architecture behind ChatGPT and nearly every model you touch. Liquid AI raised a $250M…

• Young AI Researcher Disrupting the Entire Industry - Ali Behrouz

  June 28, 2026 · 1 hr 29 min

  Ali Behrouz is an AI researcher and the author of two of the most talked about papers in machine learning right now, Titans and Nested Learning. He is a PhD student at Cornell University and a researcher at Google, and his work takes…

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