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45. From CNC Shops to Saudi Royalty: How Minds on Fire Got Here with Marcus Gaughan
Marcus Gaughan started his entrepreneurial journey at 19 with a portable eye therapy device that nearly launched with Iris as a strategic partner - until a single email ended it all. From there he built Minds on Fire through incubators, a CNC manufacturer marketplace, and a pandemic-era pivot that took him from Southern Ontario to investor conferences in the Middle East - picking up a client who happened to be the son of the governor of Riyadh along the way.
Today Marcus runs Minds on Fire as a scaling agency focused on agentic AI, building custom tools that help businesses save time…
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