Zain Jaafil
Pull my face. Then scroll.
Pull my face. Then scroll.
AI product intern, Vitalis
Vitalis sells payment systems to restaurants. I was hired to build a website. From my desk I kept hearing the sales reps say "hold on, let me find that" while they flipped through a printed packet.
So I built Call Assist. It listens to a live sales call and puts the right answer on the rep's screen the second a customer pushes back. The owner had tried to fix this before and it had not worked. He told me to give it a shot.
Then I built Alex, an AI sales rep that makes the first call itself. It can switch languages in the middle of a conversation, book an appointment, and hand the customer to a live rep when they are ready.
Intern, IMpowered Fitness
I spent this past summer interning at a gym. I called more than 200 leads, worked on where the gym shows up on Google, and stickered 500 water bottles for a World Cup watch party in Tustin.
The part I am proudest of started as a question. How do you get members to come in more often? I pitched the owner a screen on the gym floor that shows every member's check ins and streaks. Once people could see a streak, skipping a day felt like losing something.
He put it on more TVs. Now there is a strength board, a workout of the day board, and one at the front desk. After my last day he texted me a job offer.
CEO, Modjewel
Virtual Enterprise is a class where students run a company for the year. Ours is Modjewel. We sell modular jewelry, which means pieces you can swap in and out.
I am the CEO. A lot of people expect the CEO to decide everything. I run it the other way. I ask for opinions, we vote, and I call on the quiet people on purpose.
When a meeting goes silent, I stop and ask each person what they think. I learned that coaching six year olds. They show you they are bored by lying down in the grass. Teenagers just go quiet.
Fourteen years on the pitch
I played soccer for about fourteen years. Most recently that was semi pro, on a team of grown men, while I was still in high school.
I do not play anymore. I coach. Fifteen kids, ages six to eight, more than a hundred practices so far. Six year olds are the most honest audience I have ever had. If practice is boring, they lie down in the grass.
Founder
I taught myself to invest over about a year, mostly from YouTube. Then I built the thing I wanted when I started.
Mr. Guy Invests teaches investing the way Duolingo teaches a language. Short lessons, XP, and streaks. You also get $100,000 of pretend money to practice with before you risk any of your own.
I built the site and I make the videos for it too.
Rooms I talked my way into
First place at the Berkeley Haas pitch competition. I led a team of five against thirty teams and pitched Sun Moon Snacks, a snack line timed to your body clock. Everyone else in the room was in college.
Round one winner in the Mott Million Dollar Challenge, one of 1,500 picked from more than 3,700 entries. I was the one on camera, pitching AI glasses that help blind people get around.
Pitching gives me the same nerves as a big game. Presenting, waiting on the result, wanting to win. The difference is that the plan is mine.
What I watch
I love One Piece. It is goofy and wildly creative, and under the jokes there is a storyline that keeps paying off and characters who actually grow.
One line from it stuck with me.
As long as I'm alive, there are infinite chances.
Every game you play on this page adds to my bounty.
Throw me the hat.
