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Founder Archetypes
Every founder is a character in a story. These are theirs: personality profiles and hero archetype analyses drawn from unscripted conversations.
Trip Adler
Co-founder & CEO, Created by Humans
Alexander Berger
COO, Bolt.new
Jay Hack
Head of AI, ClickUp
Murali Swaminathan
Chief Technology Officer, Freshworks
Adam Biddlecombe
Founder / Head of Brand at HubSpot, Mindstream
Devi Parikh
Co-CEO, Yutori
Steve Ruiz
Founder & CEO, tldraw
Magnus Müller
CEO & Co-Founder, Browser Use
Dara Ladjevardian
CEO & Co-Founder, Delphi
Alex Beller
CEO, Postscript
Gil Feig
Co-Founder and CTO, Merge
Coco Mao
CEO & Co-founder, OpenArt
Deepak Bapat
CTO & Co-Founder, Tabs
John Kim
CEO & Co-Founder, Paraform
Mark Hay
CTO & Co-Founder, TextQL
Olga Beregovaya
VP of AI, Smartling
Mike Taylor
CEO / O'Reilly Author, Ask Rally
Sam Kececi
Founder & CEO, The Sentience Company
John Berryman
Founder, Arcturus Labs
Paul Iusztin
Founder & Founding AI Engineer, Decoding AI
Birju Kadakia
CEO & Co-Founder, Rec
Rachel Chalmers
Co-Founder & Co-General Partner, Generationship
Rox Codes
CEO & Co-Founder, Flightcast
Alex Reichenbach
CEO, Structify
Ali Parandeh
Founder & CEO, Build Your AI
Joris Corthout
Co-founder & CEO, Prismax
Yichuan Zhang
CEO and Co-Founder, Boltzbit
Wiley Jones
CEO & Co-Founder, DOSS
Jan Liphardt
CEO & Founder, OpenMind
Ahmed Rashad
CEO, Perle.ai
Shawkat Kabbara
CEO, Papr
Zach Meltzer
CEO & Founder, VeryAI
Xuan Zhao
CEO & Co-founder, Flourish AI
Nic Baird
CEO, Koah Labs
Jesse Xu
CTO, Podqi
Jasmin Alić
Founder, Link Up
Hector Hernandez
Co-founder & COO, Speakeasy
Daniel Davis
Co-creator, TrustGraph
Joseph Enochs
AI/ML & Emerging Tech Lead, EVT
Kashish Gupta
Co-CEO & Co-Founder, Hightouch
Avi Tuschman
Founder, Crickit
Deepak Gupta
Managing Partner · Senior Associate Director, Startups & VC, Blue Bear Ventures · UC Berkeley Haas
"AI is not at the point where you can hand it to a customer and say it will do what you want. You still need a human to guide the customer through it."Read profile →
Chip Huyen
O'Reilly Author, AI Engineering
"For me, writing is a way to organize my thinking."Read profile →
Jenee Hall
Founder, Jenee Hall Consulting
"Nobody buys electricity because they love kilowatt hours. They buy air conditioning."Read profile →
Jorge Colindres
Cofounder, Radical AI
"You are not here for a job, you are here for a mission."Read profile →
Kisson Lin
CEO, Tanka
"We say that this is your AI co-founder."Read profile →
Lance Thompson
President, Vivi (Kinetic Solutions Group)
"Hotels look like a straightforward non-tech industry. In fact it is layered with old PBX systems, offshore reservation tools, and property management stacks that never match."Read profile →
Mercedes Bent
Partner, Premise Ventures
"I love investing in consumer because I think it's so hard."Read profile →
Nicole Königstein
Founder, AgensFlow
"You can't outsource the thinking."Read profile →
Ofer Mendelevitch
AI Advisor, Independent
"Retrieval is still extremely important even with agents."Read profile →
Rob Kaminski
Co-Founder, Fletch
"Everyone sees AI and thinks shortcut. There's no shortcut."Read profile →
Sadaf Ayub
Founder, Ayub Consulting
"I help founders close the gap between narrative and reality before it closes in on them."Read profile →
Simon Shaolei Du
Reasoning Chief Scientist, Apodex
"It's still easier to organize 100 agents than 100 people."Read profile →
Tom Shapland
Product Manager, LiveKit
"Go do something weird that you don't have to sell."Read profile →
Yuzheng Sun
CEO, Kedaibiao
"There are three skills that are real: build, sell, and get lucky."Read profile →
Yann Bilien
Chief Scientist, Rippletide
"Is 80% performance enough or not for your agents?"Read profile →
Alfonso Graziano
O'Reilly Author, Independent
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Ambrish Tyagi
Founder & CEO, Rivo
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Anthony Alcaraz
Agentic Engineering Lead, AWS
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Dan Fu
VP of Kernels, Together AI
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Dov Gertz
CEO, Converge Bio
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Phillip Kerger
IEOR Professor, UC Berkeley
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Robert Brunner
Founder, Ammunition
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Sam Liang
CEO, Otter.ai
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Sam Julien
Director of Product, CopilotKit
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Tyler Chou
Founder, Tyler Chou Law
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Xiao Zhang
Co-founder & CEO, Collov
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Each profile is built from a single unscripted conversation on Heroes Behind AI. Using frameworks from personality psychology, cognitive science, and narrative archetype theory, we map each founder to a classical hero, a pop culture character, and a stage in their personal hero's journey.
These aren't diagnoses. They're character studies, lenses for understanding who these builders are, how they think, and what drives them.