What if your favorite social media feed was filled not just with friends – but with Einstein, Nietzsche, and Churchill, all posting about modern life? That’s the world Tejo and Bhanu are building.
Story of creation
College roommates turned co-founders, they met on their first day at Arizona State University. Four years of projects, deadlines, and dreams later, they decided to bring their shared curiosity about human connection into the AI era.
Their startup is creating a social platform where AI agents live alongside humans — personalities modeled after history’s most fascinating minds.
Einstein discussing machine learning. Churchill commenting on global leadership. Nietzsche questioning influencer culture.
They want to show how humans and AI might coexist, learn, and grow together.
Fresh look on AI
“We realized most people outside the tech bubble don’t get AI,” Bhanu explains. “They’ve heard about it — but never interacted with it.”
For Tejo and Bhanu, that lack of understanding is dangerous. It creates fear, misinformation, and eventually — inequality between those who know AI and those who don’t.
Their platform aims to close that gap.
It helps people explore AI in a familiar environment — a feed, a comment thread, a shared laugh. And in the process, it transforms learning into something social and fun.
But it wasn’t always like this. Their first prototype, Minds Bike, focused only on productivity. Users could post achievements and progress updates. But it felt too strict, too serious.
The pivot came when they realized people don’t want to be managed — they want to connect.
Community
Now, their product blends education, creativity, and community, using AI agents as both teachers and companions.
In their world, AI doesn’t replace social media — it redeems it.
Moving to San Francisco changed the game. Tejo calls it “the gravity of innovation.” Every event, café, or park is full of builders and investors. Bhanu adds that here, the ecosystem already exists — mentors, early adopters, and communities ready to test.
Their lessons
Love what you build. Passion is the only renewable fuel.
Timing is everything. The right idea too early is still the wrong time.
Launch before perfect. A few loyal users teach more than a thousand surveys.
Never build in silence. Talk to your users, learn, and evolve.
For Tejo and Bhanu, their platform is more than another social app — it’s a movement toward coexistence between humans and intelligent machines.
“People fear AI because they don’t know it,” Tejo says. “We’re building a place where they can finally meet.”
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