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He Buys Companies, Keeps Every Employee, Then Deploys Nobel-Nominated AI

Most founders think the endgame is IPO or bust. Todd Furniss built a company that offers a third door: sell to someone who keeps your entire team, hands leadership three to five year employment agreements, and then drops patented AI into your operations like a turbocharger into a truck that's been stuck in third gear for a decade.Todd is the CEO and co-founder of AI Squared, formally AIAI Holdings Corporation, publicly traded on the Nasdaq under the ticker AIAI since May 14, 2026. The model is deliciously simple to say and brutally hard to copy: buy real operating companies with real revenue…

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