#2 - EX-Apple, Coding Live & Why Coding Will Replace Gaming - Ray Fernando

Daniel Tian and his team are giving AI agents phone numbers. His company Photon connects agents to iMessage, WhatsApp, Slack, and Discord through a self-built Mac Studio data center in SF, and he left UPenn to work on it full time. We talk about why messaging is the next app layer, what agent-to-ag…

Gaurav Thapa is building usefastlane, an AI distribution platform that helps companies turn their product into short-form content for TikTok, Reels, and YouTube Shorts. We talk about dropping out of law in Sydney, moving to SF through Founders Inc, and why distribution matters just as much as the p…

Adil Mania moved from France to San Francisco to build Silicon Mania, a media company bringing late-night show energy, magazines, games, and cultural storytelling to tech. We talk about making tech fun again, why Silicon Valley needs more weirdness, and how chasing the next yes keeps you moving aft…

Yana Welinder just sold her AI analytics startup Kraftful to Amplitude and is now building Yana Banana, what she calls the first AI-native fashion brand. We talk about going from a zero-to-one AI product to a full exit as a solo founder, why fashion's design cycle is broken, and how AI hallucinatio…