50 million people now consider themselves creators. Most make less than $500/year. The infrastructure is broken—discovery is algorithmic roulette, monetization favors platforms over people, and burnout is the norm. We need better tools for creators to build sustainable businesses around their work.
Benjamin Bloom proved in 1984 that one-on-one tutoring improves student performance by 2 standard deviations. But tutors don't scale. Multimodal AI—voice, vision, interactive—can finally deliver personalized tutoring to every student at near-zero marginal cost.
1.5 billion students worldwide receive one-size-fits-all education designed for the industrial age. AI enables true personalization—unique learning paths adjusted in real-time for each student. Build the infrastructure for education that actually adapts.
SMBs managing products across platforms (Amazon, eBay, Shopify) lack sophisticated optimization. Build AI that generates alternative product listings, A/B tests variants, creates videos, and recommends untapped audiences.
Most entertainment focuses on productivity agents; there's a gap in personalized, social entertainment. Build game worlds with interesting AI agents that have their own lives, hierarchical memory, and interactive capabilities.
Benjamin Bloom proved in 1984 that one-on-one tutoring improves student performance by 2 standard deviations. But tutors don't scale. Multimodal AI—voice, vision, interactive—can finally deliver personalized tutoring to every student at near-zero marginal cost.
1.5 billion students worldwide receive one-size-fits-all education designed for the industrial age. AI enables true personalization—unique learning paths adjusted in real-time for each student. Build the infrastructure for education that actually adapts.
SMBs managing products across platforms (Amazon, eBay, Shopify) lack sophisticated optimization. Build AI that generates alternative product listings, A/B tests variants, creates videos, and recommends untapped audiences.
Most entertainment focuses on productivity agents; there's a gap in personalized, social entertainment. Build game worlds with interesting AI agents that have their own lives, hierarchical memory, and interactive capabilities.
Some problems are so large that solving them changes everything. Fusion energy. Brain-computer interfaces. Reversing aging. These aren't incremental improvements—they're civilizational shifts. We're looking for the technical breakthroughs and bold bets that seem impossible until they're inevitable.
The best businesses often start in markets that look too small. Vertical SaaS for dry cleaners. Tools for independent truckers. Software for yacht brokers. These niches are ignored by big companies but represent real pain for real people. Dominate a niche, then expand.
Work is being rebuilt from scratch. Remote collaboration. AI-augmented productivity. The death of the 9-to-5. The rise of the portfolio career. The companies that define how we work in 2035 are being built now. We're looking for the tools, platforms, and systems that will shape the next era of human productivity.
The science of aging is accelerating. Senolytics. Gene therapy. Epigenetic reprogramming. For the first time, extending healthy human lifespan is a serious engineering challenge, not science fiction. The companies solving these problems won't just build billion-dollar businesses—they'll change what it means to be human.
Financial infrastructure was built for a different era. Cross-border payments take days. 2 billion people are unbanked. Small businesses can't access capital. Crypto promised a revolution but mostly delivered speculation. We're looking for practical solutions that make money work better for everyone.
We have 10 years to fundamentally transform energy, transportation, agriculture, and manufacturing. This isn't about incremental efficiency—it's about reinventing trillion-dollar industries. The climate transition will create more wealth than the internet. The problems are urgent, massive, and solvable.