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He Skipped School Until 25 — Now He's Building AI Governance for 48% of the Economy (Callen Sapien)

In this episode, I'm joined by Callen Sapien, CEO and Co-Founder of Synthreo. We talk about how he and his co-founders built a multi-tenant, model-agnostic AI governance and consumption platform specifically for SMBs and the managed service providers that serve them — the 48% of the global economy that every enterprise AI company walks right past.

Callen shares the origin story behind Synthreo: a Montessori farm school education that ended at age 10, years of poverty and homelessness, running a mattress store at 16, and eventually landing a 4.0 GPA at community college after a motorcycle…

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