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Your New Side Hustle: Being Human

From $7M to $100M in eight months. Meet the 24-year-old building the data empire behind the next AI boom.

At the start of the year, micro1 was a modest recruiting startup making $7M annually. Now, it’s pulling in over $100M a year and eyeing a $2.5B valuation, all under founder Ali Ansari, who’s on track to become one of the world’s youngest billionaires.

The breakthrough came when Ansari spotted a massive bottleneck in AI: training data. Large models need humans to label text, images, and outputs - work that costs tech giants billions each year. So micro1 pivoted fast, filling that need and exploding in growth.

Now, Ansari’s chasing an even bigger frontier: humanoid robots. To teach machines how people actually move and do chores, say folding laundry, cleaning, fixing things, micro1 is sending out kits with Meta’s Ray-Ban smart glasses and paying people to record themselves doing everyday tasks.

Those clips become the building blocks for robots that can function in real homes and workplaces. Ansari calls it a new kind of job for the AI era, where anyone with real-world skills can help train the future.

Reportedly, Micro1’s robotics data gigs typically pay in the range of about $25–$50 per hour for filming everyday chores with Meta’s Ray-Ban smart glasses. In case you’re interested ☺️

Could AI CEOs Run a Company?

For years, AI has been “coming for our jobs”… but now Big Tech is saying it might come for their jobs too.

Google’s Sundar Pichai recently said a CEO’s work might actually be one of the easier tasks for AI to handle. Sam Altman joked that OpenAI should be the first major company with an AI CEO.

Why the confidence? AI is getting better at the things CEOs do every day: analyzing data, forecasting, managing risk, optimizing teams, and making quick calls. Some models can now run entire simulated businesses (like tracking inventory, managing suppliers, and adjusting pricing) without human help.

But AI still struggles with long-term thinking, messy real-world problems, and staying consistent over months (or even hours). Think it could manage a business all on its own?

Meet Dr. Dina Radenkovic Turner, CEO of Gameto

Meet Dr. Dina Radenkovic Turner 🥳 the biotech visionary reimagining fertility care for women.

Born in wartime Serbia, Turner’s love of science took her to the UK, where she graduated top of her class in medicine at University College London and trained in major London hospitals.

In 2021, she co-founded Gameto, a biotech using cell engineering to modernize reproductive medicine. Its lead program, Fertilo, reduces about 80% of the hormone injections required in traditional IVF, cutting the egg-maturation phase from 14 days to just 3. 😲

Remember, traditional IVF requires women to take two weeks of strong hormone injections so their eggs can fully mature. It’s effective, but often brings bloating, pain, mood swings, and frequent clinic visits.

This month, Gameto made history in Australia: a woman became pregnant using eggs matured outside her body, thanks to lab-grown ovarian support cells. The mother called the process “far gentler” - fewer shots, less strain.

Backed by $127M in funding, Turner says her mission is simple but overdue: to build the kind of science women should have had decades ago - care that honors their bodies and expands their choices.

Fully agree with the mission!