Mallory discusses (1:00) spending 10 years in San Francisco, (2:33) working in community brand and content marketing at Tumblr in 2010's, (3:00) starting a blog to connect with other gamers, (3:37) working at Discord as an early employee after her blog took off, (4:50) starting whatever studio, (5:37) joining Bolt.new as a fractional marketing officer, (6:30) raising money for kindasorta after leaving Discord, (7:45) playing video games with her dad growing up, (9:23) the role of communities in gaming, (13:40) old school gaming communities or LAN events, (17:50) the rise of PC rooms across Korea and Asia, (19:28) console gaming being more popular in the West, (21:25) recreating old games that she played as a child with AI, (25:05) helping early-stage tech companies build their community from the ground up, (26:00) doing a hackathon for her client, (26:55) doing grassroots and social media campaigns for enterprise companies, (28:55) working with clients for between 3-6 months, (30:55) focusing on brand awareness or word-of-mouth marketing for tech clients, (32:36) attracting prosumers for Bolt.new, at a hackathon by naturally building a way for people to use their product, (33:50) partnering with 10-12 other AI companies to offset the 1 million dollar prize money, (36:45) building trust for tech products through community, (38:36) working with companies that are Series A and beyond, (39:50) building community on Discord through challenges, (43:01) handing off Discord communities to clients post-project and (43:36) leaving security to pursue kindasorta studio.

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www.kindasortastudio.com
https://www.linkedin.com/company/kindasorta-studio
https://www.instagram.com/malloryloar
http://www.linkedin.com/in/malloryloar

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Nicole discusses (0:55) her time studying Psychology and Neuroscience at Columbia University, (1:28) dealing with mental health issues at Columbia and trying to help others once she healed, (2:48) reaching people with mental health issues through Soul Health, (4:18) helping people reconcile their professional lives with their personal lives, (5:26) helping entrepreneurs avoid burnout, (7:43) dreaming of becoming an entrepreneur as a child, (11:29) entering Columbia as a Physics major, (12:28) pivoting twice with Soul Health, (13:48) life as a solo founder, (14:47) working with 3 accelerators and a venture capital firm, (15:28) making progress with Soul Health since February, (18:11) working on Soul Health while on a clean slate with her own mental health, (20:48) costs to advancements in technology in 2026, and (23:25) finding her hope through Christianity, her family and her faith in herself.

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www.getsoulhealth.co
https://www.linkedin.com/company/thesoulhealth/
https://www.instagram.com/nicolevieirapires
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Mhraf discusses (1:04) growing up in Ethiopia, Kenya and South Africa; then attending Trinity College in Connecticut in the U.S., (1:34) studying Economics and International Relations with a concentration in African Studies at Trinity College, (2:43) attending African Leadership Academy in South Africa with a tight-knit group of 100 students for two years, (12:47) working in education for 8 years, (13:43) heading sales and partnerships at Chatac, (15:40) moving back to Africa, (17:03) bringing over her network of educators to Chatac, (17:44) working together with her team of 8 people at Chatac, (19:25) serving almost 40,000 learners to lower-connectivity areas such as Afghanistan through Sola X, (20:34) allowing learning to happen on WhatsApp through AI, (23:20) working with a wide age group range and deploying learning in local languages and local contexts through AI, (26:04) scouting mission-aligned organizations in remote areas who are online, (27:54) training teachers in their pedagogy, (28:49) tapping into previous connections and talking to new connections to build a pipeline, (30:00) working to integrate Chatac into government entities, (32:00) attempting to build an intuitive platform on WhatsApp, (33:47) being wary of use cases for AI, (35:25) the role of AI in society and necessary protocol, (38:00) designing Chatac's AI around the 7 vectors of learning in the U.S, and (39:18) the importance of the human element in education.

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linkedin.com/in/mhraf
www.chatac.ai

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