The Birth of Synapse – Synapse AI

Let's talk about how Synapse AI was made. Synapse actually started out -- let's not talk about confirmation bias of being a programmer, growing up in the hacking and phreaking scene, learning networking, network security, understanding systems, having a background in electrical engineering and computation chemistry -- let's start out with: We first threw a hackathon called "Hackendo," and I was running Techendo at the time, and the San Francisco Hacker News Meetup. Techendo was our news outlet. We wanted Techendo to capture entrepreneurs and tech developers blogging about what was happening. We did that because there was a real monopoly on the pipeline of launching a product and getting media engaged to talk about a product. That was mainly owned by incubators and accelerators, and it still is -- so there still is opportunity there.