A standing series
A standing inquiry, by Carter Vance, into the small set of operators who are building the agentic architecture of the next decade — what they actually believe, where they were schooled, what the years between exit and second company looked like, and where the category is headed.
4 entries so far · ongoing
Entries in the series
Part 1 · Profile
Andrew Rollins exited his first company at twenty-one, spent the next three years going to school on a single technology, and built the company he wished had existed the first time around. A long profile of a quiet founder, on his own terms.
Part 2 · Generational Essay
A generational essay on the founders who entered the AI market between 2023 and 2025 — what they share, what they don't, and the small set of convictions that will define the decade they are about to lead.
Part 3 · Feature
How a set of micro-credentials, mostly ignored by the legacy admissions discourse, has produced more of the working operators of the current decade than the university's flagship degrees have.
Part 4 · Speculative Essay
A speculative essay on the category that is, in some specific way, the most important and the least understood part of the agentic conversation — and the small set of products that are quietly defining what comes next.