5 Companies Started in 2019
Learn from founders and CEOs who launched their businesses in 2019

Collin Kettell
Founder & CEO
In this interview, Palisades Goldcorp founder and CEO Collin Kettell discusses their unique warrant-centric resource investment strategy at the Rick Rule Symposium. He details the transition from managing New Found Gold to building a diversified portfolio of 330 companies holding 1.7 billion warrants across gold, silver, copper, and critical metals. Kettell explains the leverage of long-dated warrants during a mining bull market and highlights key holdings like Made in America Gold and Radio Fuels.

Ant Wilson
Co-founder & CTO
In this interview, Ant Wilson discusses the journey of building Supabase into one of the leading open-source backend platforms for developers. He shares insights on customer obsession, product simplicity, developer-focused marketing, and scaling an open-source business. The conversation highlights the importance of clear messaging, remote-first culture, community-driven growth, and how security, reliability, and performance create lasting competitive advantages in developer infrastructure.

Krishna Rangasayee
Founder & CEO
In this interview, Krishna Rangasayee discusses the rise of physical AI and the opportunities created by bringing intelligent decision-making directly to edge devices. He shares insights on building energy-efficient AI infrastructure, balancing hardware and software trade-offs, and enabling multimodal AI workloads on a single platform. The conversation highlights focus, product strategy, security, and how advances in reasoning models, edge computing, and real-world automation are reshaping the future of intelligent machines.

Sadi Khan
Co-founder & CEO
In this interview, Sadi Khan discusses the mission behind Aven and how combining home equity with credit card functionality can help reduce borrowing costs for consumers. He shares insights on identifying inefficiencies in financial services, building products that deliver meaningful customer value, and scaling a fintech business in a highly regulated industry. The conversation highlights innovation, disciplined execution, mission-driven leadership, and the importance of using technology to solve real-world financial challenges.

Harry Halpin
CEO and Co-founder
Harry Halpin discusses his journey from philosophy and activism into privacy technology, why mass surveillance threatens freedom, the origins of Nym, the future of internet privacy, and how decentralized networks can help protect users from censorship and tracking.