Build the Vibe TechWalk | Silicon Valley, 6/18

A new type of founder is evolving. The tech industry, an ecosystem that once promised careers attached to a rocketship and a path to IPO-millionaire-dom isn't reliably doing either anymore. Layoffs have made the old trajectories unreliable. The tools to build have changed too. What used to take a co-founder, a dev team, and 18 months now takes a weekend and a working laptop. The result is a founder who doesn't wait for permission. They don't pitch a roadmap. They ship working products and iterate in public, often before they raise a dollar. This is a live AI build sprint. Eight selected teams arrive with working AI builds. Onsite, our judges issue a live directive, and each team has 60 minutes to ship against it. The real story in AI isn't…