Consumer brand leader, entrepreneur, startup mentor at Blackstone Launchpad. Currently building at A-Frame Venture Studio.

After building and selling a few SaaS and consumer brands in San Diego, I co-founded A-frame venture studio to drive change in health, well-being, and human connection. I'm always interested in connecting with other founders, investors, creatives and technologists building for a healthier people and planet.

Mirth requests: care@drinkmirth.com

Bradley Harris

We genuinely did not expect this.

Mirth was born from a desire to create a clean, emotionally intelligent product for all ages - like a Disney movie in a can.

We went to five of the top flavor labs, all claiming to use the cleanest, most natural ingredients.

But every single one used “natural flavors,” which (spoiler) can mean hundreds of lab-derived chemicals hidden behind misleading labels.

We walked away.

What we didn’t expect was how many people had been waiting for something like this.

The response from the chronic illness and POTS community has been overwhelming - folks who need electrolytes daily, and have been searching for a soda or sparkling water they can actually trust.

No added sugar.
No dyes or artificial flavors.
No “natural” flavors that aren’t natural at all.

Something safe.
Something joyful. 
Something...real.

We’re so grateful to those of you sharing your stories - we’re learning, and we’re listening. 🧡

📸 Shoutout to this heartfelt PSA and disco party from two new Mirth fans @clairefabrephoto @tara_alfano

💦 Hydration powered by Buoy - ocean-sourced electrolytes with nothing to hide 

🍊 R&D led by JAI Development - supporting our move to organic fruit juice

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Co-founder @ Mirth | Partner @ A-frame venture studio | Entrepreneur, investor & advisor

Kicking off a much needed Mirth website refresh today with Jarenz Castillo and Thomas Wang of Wisper Studios!

Not because anything was “broken” but because the brand has grown up a bit.

If you want to go far, go together. 

I always think of that when we kick off with new partners, and today was no different. 

Onward ✌️

Amber Brandner A-Frame Venture Studio

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Somewhere on the long bike ride we stopped. 

Looked up, and saw sunflowers and a pond. that was a Mirth moment.

We chose this photo for our Startup CPG feature because it represents where our hearts are in this brand. 

Built outdoors, and fully present recognizing all the beauty around us. 

(plus we haven't shot founder photos yet, that's next week)

These bike rides clear our heads working on the business and digital worlds behind mirth. 

Grateful for moments like these.

Huge thanks to Startup CPG for featuring our story and Lauren Palmer for your dedication to sharing it from a mountain top. 

Or in this case.. from the sunflower fields 🌻 

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I love people who give more than they take.

Bob Dalton is one of those people. Proud to back him, LOCL, and more tech that helps humans meet in real life.

I’m excited to see this grow as infrastructure for healthier, more human connection.

If you believe the future is local, this one is worth paying attention to.

Open article: Invest in LOCL: Your Local Community Network by wefunder.com

Invest in LOCL: Your Local Community Network

From building websites for $20 to building the European Space Agency website, to apps with over 20 million downloads, I found a lost keyboard and used it to build an empire.

I’m a software engineer and entrepreneur. I’ve built products used by millions and led teams that shipped over 100 apps and websites.

Along the way, I created one of the shortest URL shortening services back in 2008, built a socks business, co-founded a coding academy, and even sold flowers at 13 to buy my first computer.

Now I’m building something new, tackling one of the most important problems facing modern engineering teams: the alignment between management and development. As AI agents start writing more code, understanding what’s being built and why has never been more critical.

Teodos Pejoski

I'm looking for AI-first dev shops from Macedonia (and the broader Balkan region).

Lately I've been getting inbound from companies looking to work with remote teams that already build with AI. 
Mostly for cost reasons, but also because there are still very few teams that are truly AI-first.

I want to connect with fellow Macedonians and teams from the region who are already there.

If your team is AI-first and you're open to new work, reach out.

Share:
- how you use AI (tools, models, workflow)
- what you're building or have built
- anything real you can show
- your pricing / cost structure

Every CTO I know came back from the holidays thinking, "Holy shit!" about one thing. And if yours didn't, I'd be worried.

The first couple of weeks of January are when people come back excited about the one thing they finally had time to try over the break.

This year, that thing is AI coding.

If you are a CTO, VP of Engineering, or in any engineering leadership role, and unless you live under a rock, you probably spent part of your holidays playing with the new generation of AI coding tools.

Maybe to finally prove your team wrong that this "fancy autocomplete" will never work. Or maybe to get ahead of them and show them how it's done.
"Back in my day we used to code on paper. You kids have it easy."

And to be fair, at the start of 2025, many of you probably tried the early copilots, decided "this isn't ready" and moved on and wrote AI off.

But if you did play with it, I'm sure what you saw over the last few weeks is a completely different world.

The few engineering groups and email lists I'm part of are full of people sharing how they ran a gazillion Claude Codes, burned through millions of tokens, and built in a few hours what their teams took half of 2025 to build. And back at the office, they are all probably like:

"This AI thing is insane. We should do more AI. We are going to automate support, dev, tickets, QA, bugs, code reviews. Maybe even get rid of our junior developers. Yes, we are definitely getting rid of our junior developers."
(Your words, not mine.)

But here comes the real challenge. Once corporate life gets in the way, here's how this is going to play out:

You end up with agents scattered across repos, scripts, and tools. Some half-working, some abandoned, some wasting tokens doing the wrong thing, and probably no one really knows how they work anymore. I mean, you vibe-coded 90% of it, of course, you have no clue how it works.

Now everyone is racing to figure out how to build faster with agents, but almost no one is thinking about how they are going to operate them.

Who owns the agents? How do you version them, debug them when they "misbehave" in prod and secure their access to data?
How do you stay compliant?

AI coding is not going anywhere. It will replace parts of every function in a company, no doubt. And that should not scare you. New roles will emerge. But you'll have to upgrade your skills too, develop patience and intuition on how to operate this heavy machinery. It is inevitable and we'll probably need to invent new tools and processes too.

But it's going to be CHAOS for a while before it gets better.

We don't just need to build agents faster. We need a way to run and manage them properly. We need ownership, observability, security, and control. We need to rethink how work itself is organized for this new hybrid human+AI agent era.

If this feels exciting and overwhelming at the same time, you are not alone. 

Happy New Year!

You think you've heard enough about agents, agentic, agents this, agents that...  wait till you hear about super agents.

By super agents, I don't mean bigger models or smarter prompts. I think they'll emerge in two very concrete ways.

First, consolidation. 
In 2025 we saw an explosion of small, narrowly focused agents solving one specific problem. In 2026, I expect a wave of consolidation. Companies will buy other companies or agents, sometimes for the agent itself, sometimes for the team, but almost always to strengthen their own agent stack.

Second, expansion. 
Agents that actually worked in 2025, and their creators, will try to move beyond a single use case. They'll expand into adjacent verticals, either by acquiring existing agents or by building new ones internally.

That's how we end up with super agents. Agents that can do multiple things end to end and do them well, while the long tail of narrow agents keeps growing.

This post is part of my 2026 prediction series. You can check out the rest of my predictions, as well as some predictions from the years before, on the link below.

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