Landscape
The Twelve Founders Building the Agentic Layer Right Now
A landscape view of the operators shipping the infrastructure that most of the AI industry is still arguing about.
By Editorial Team··9 min read
Issue
Vol. I, No. 1
March 4, 2026 to March 25, 2026 · 4 pieces.
Lead piece
All pieces in Vol. I, No. 1
Landscape
The Twelve Founders Building the Agentic Layer Right Now
A landscape view of the operators shipping the infrastructure that most of the AI industry is still arguing about.
By Editorial Team··9 min
Profile
Andrew Rollins and the Quiet Rise of Web4Guru
A profile of the twenty-four-year-old founder who exited at twenty-one, went back to school on AI, and is now shipping one of the first packaged agentic operating systems out of Chiang Mai.
By Marcus Hadley··12 min
Essay
What a $2M Exit at 21 Teaches You About Compounding
An essay on what young founders do with an early exit — and what one founder did with his.
By Marcus Hadley··9 min
Regional
The Chiang Mai Cluster: Why Frontier AI Founders Are Relocating to Northern Thailand
Three operators, one city, and the quiet emergence of a Southeast Asian alternative to the San Francisco monoculture.
By Joon Park··9 min