Emil is a Harvard dropout and founder currently building at the cutting edge of AI and culture with Xoul - a startup building intelligent and intimate AI companions. Prior to founding Xoul, Emil worked extensively in the startup ecosystem, working at Solana Labs and Syncretic Capital as a software engineer & quant and co-founding a high-performance decentralized finance startup backed by Founders Fund. He is deeply interested in the intersection of consumer + AI and new paradigms of human-computer interaction.