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What Gets Us Excited

// what gets us excited

We've collectively spent 20+ years building products at OpenAI, Google, Yahoo, Box, OpenTable, WealthFront, Nurx, and more.

We love building zero to one products. We are greenfielders. We love the blank page. The ambiguity, the constraints, the puzzle of finding what works.

That's why we built αθ² around this phase. We know what works, and we want to bring this know-how beyond Silicon Valley.

// the team
Ian Atha
Ian Atha
Product & Engineering

YC alum. I've shipped products at OpenAI, Box, Wealthfront, Google, and Yahoo. I've been where you are: a founder trying to translate my hypothesis into products my users will love. I'm the reason things get built. Clean architecture, fast decisions.

Expertise: Rapid prototyping, 0→1 building, technical feasibility, AI product development

Athena Engesæth
Athena Engesæth
Product & UX

I've been the first non-founder PM at two YC-backed startups. I founded and grew a healthcare platform to 30,000 users. I've built in regulated environments, HIPAA-compliant systems, and taken new products through FDA clearance. I design from first principles. I'm the reason a new user realizes the core value, and understands how the product solves their problem.

Expertise: Health tech, user research, product discovery, validation strategy, UX design

Apostolos Regas
Apostolos Regas
AI & Data Engineering

MSc in AI & Visual Computing. MSc in Applied Bioinformatics. Azure Certified. I specialize in data pipelines, machine learning systems, and conversational AI. When the project has hard technical requirements — integrations, real-time systems, ML models — I'm why they actually work.

Expertise: AI/ML engineering, data pipelines, full-stack development, conversational AI

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