
One Field Trip Away From Building the Future
Justin Gelinas hated school. Not because he wasn't smart, because the box was too small.
Then a teacher named Laurie took him on a field trip to a design studio in Burlington, Vermont. Tribe Called Quest was playing. There was a half pipe in the basement. Twenty-somethings were designing brand strategy for Burton Snowboards on an open floor plan. And Justin walked out knowing exactly what he wanted to build.
That one field trip set off a lifelong pursuit of the unconventional, from DJing at 13, to building creative technology companies, to now founding TAHO: middleware that's making AI…
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