She had no CS degree. She used AI to teach herself to build.
Anastasiia Shumilo had no computer science background when she decided to build software. She taught herself Flutter and Xcode using AI, founded Shumi Technologies, and is now developing Draw Flow — an AI-powered construction technology platform that automates drawing analysis, quantity takeoffs, and cost estimation for construction professionals.
This week
The most important act of a founder this decade will not be building. It will be deciding what not to build. Restraint is the unwritten chapter of every great company — and the next four years will reward it more than any cycle in memory.
The feed
OpenAI IPO Off for 2026: Altman Reshapes AI Capital Strategy Implications for Deep Tech Founders
Sam Altman announces OpenAI will not IPO in 2026, prioritizing long-term AGI development over public market demands and reshaping capital strategy for deep tech ventures.
US Government Halts Anthropic Fable 5 Access Over Safety *AI Safety Warnings Backfire?*
The US government suspended Anthropic's Fable 5 for critical entities citing 'jailbreaks,' challenging its safety narrative and setting a significant regulatory precedent for AI startups.
Netflix Acquires Ben Affleck's AI Filmmaking Startup for $587M
Netflix's $587M acquisition of Ben Affleck's AI filmmaking startup, InterPositive, signals a major industry pivot towards AI in content creation and highlights the success of celebrity-backed tech ventures.
Nvidia Buys Hugging Face for $13B: AI Market Consolidation _Reshaping Open-Source AI_
Nvidia's reported $13 billion acquisition of Hugging Face signals a major pivot into the AI software stack, poised to reshape the open-source landscape and alter competitive strategies for startups.
Bending Spoons Buys Miro for $1.36B: A Valuation Reset Post-IPO Power Play
Bending Spoons' rapid post-IPO acquisition of Miro for $1.36 billion signals a dramatic market revaluation of SaaS companies and new M&A strategies for tech founders.
Founders desk
Plate 01Anastasiia Shumilo
Anastasiia Shumilo is a Ukrainian-born technology founder who started over in Canada and built her career in technology from the ground up. She founded Shumi Technologies, an international B2B softwar
Plate 02Cover · Issue 47Tony Loeb
The man who decided hospitality needed just ten minutes — co-founder of 10minutes.news, the quiet media engine now read by 220,000 hoteliers across Europe and North America.
Plate 03Dylan Field
Dropped out of UPenn on a Thiel Fellowship, spent six years building a design tool that ran in the browser, said no to Adobe's $20B all-cash offer when the regulators killed it, and IPO'd anyway.
Plate 04Mira Murati
Was the CTO who shipped GPT-4 and Sora. Left OpenAI at the peak of its public arc to start a research lab — Thinking Machines — that raised one of the largest seed rounds in history before it had a product.
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