Vibe5: Five Founder-Driven Companies Catching the Signal
The market’s noisy. These five founders are not.
We’re not scanning for price swings. We’re listening for founder frequency.
This week’s Vibe5 features five public companies that hum with potential—based on who’s building, not just what’s selling:
📡 AST SpaceMobile ($23.28)
Beaming 5G from space to your phone. Founder Abel Avellan grew up signal-starved in a rural town—now he’s building the grid he never had. A moonshot with AT&T and Vodafone on board.
🔊 SoundHound AI ($8.28)
Voice tech with a pulse. Keyvan Mohajer’s team survived the AI winter to craft a human-first interface—think Siri, but soulful. Nvidia and Hyundai are listening.
🐦 Duolingo ($329.35)
Gamified learning that hooks. Luis von Ahn, the CAPTCHA genius, turned obsession into a memeable language empire. The owl’s watching—and winning.
🧴 Oddity Tech ($41.58)
AI + beauty, but not your typical DTC hustle. An ex-Israeli intelligence officer bringing predictive tech to the vanity mirror.
🌿 Allbirds ($4.46)
Wool sneakers, down but not out. Joey Zwillinger’s eco-rebellion still whispers to Gen Z—sustainability with a redemption arc. Risky, cheap, poetic.
Markets are jittery—tariffs, volatility, the usual storm. But these stories have their own gravity. This isn’t financial advice. It’s a signal worth tuning into.
(Disclosure: I currently own shares of AST SpaceMobile at the time of this post.)
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