Ex-Apple Designer Jason Yuan Launches Second AI Startup Hivemind on First of Kind Podcast
soleio · x · 2026-10-31
On First of Kind S3E02, host Soleio interviews Jason Yuan, former Apple designer who created MercuryOS (an early intent-based computing vision), cofounded Dot (a personal AI companion with long-term narrative memory), and is now building his second AI startup, Hivemind.
Key takeaways:
- How playwright training prepared him for designing social intelligence
- Hivemind runs on principles instead of rules
- Every relationship is a story with shared authorship; product motto: "for the plot"
- The best products, like the best stories, are based on a truth that is fundamentally plural
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