Leo Fan grew up in China, performing his undergrad and masters within the country. Eventually, he came to the states to get his PhD from Cornell. Prior to his current venture, his experience has been in academia, and research in computer science. But outside of tech, he's a gamer. In fact, he was pretty good at it, almost entering professional eSports during his undergrad days, playing Counterstrike and Warcraft. Besides that, he enjoys playing tennis and basketball, and eating some good Chinese food or tacos.

In his engineering days, Leo discovered a very powerful system for crypto, with powerful properties to enable it to be so. Once he figured out that this type of model can scale crypto systems, he wanted to build the first full stack compute network - to own the growth of on-chain compute.

This is the creation story of Cysic.

Links

https://cysic.xyz/

https://leofanxiong.github.io/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/leofanxiong/

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Pooja Brown grew up in India, and now lives in San Francisco. Her family ran manufacturing factories that made fertilizer and medicine - IE real products, real customers, and real consequences when a batch didn't ship. She grew up learning that a product was not done until it was in the customers hands. She came stateside for university, and never left San Francisco. She's held leadership positions in many companies, some notable names being Stitch Fix and Docusign. Outside of tech, she is married with 2 daughters. She notes that in all her years in tech, home is the one place she can't automate.

In 2019, Tribe made a bet that every company would become an AI company. In the summer of 2026, Pooja joined the company during the point of hyper growth, when AI is booming but businesses are still trying to catch up and implement. She stepped in to help lead the charge and build transformational AI systems for the enterprise.

This is Pooja's creation story at Tribe AI.

Links

https://www.tribe.ai/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/pgarg/

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Brian McKeown is 24 years old, and was born and raised in Dallas, TX. He attended Texas A&M University in College Station, and was heavily involved in rec athletics. Post college, he worked a year or so before getting invited on the rocket ship he has been apart of in manufacturing, and moving to Chattanooga. Outside of tech, he loves being outdoors and in the mountains. He finds the Tennessee area great for hiking and community, which is a bit different than what he grew up with in Texas.

In his prior role, which was more of an old school company, Brian was referred to an opportunity by one of his mentors in college. The founders of his current venture had proven market fit for their product, but needed talented engineers to create a repeatable platform, built on top of a playbook for what works, to deploy in manufacturing plants across the US.

This is the creation story of Harmony AI.

Links

https://www.tryharmony.ai/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/brian-mckeown-49b225229

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