GoKawiilYoung AI founders secure patents and pilots before first funding round, PR agency head notes
A PR agency founder describes seeing teenage and student AI entrepreneurs secure issued patents, city-level pilot programs and peer-reviewed research before raising any venture funding. One example cited is a wildfire-detection startup whose teenage founder obtained a U.S. patent for running AI models on low-power sensor hardware, developed from an earlier school science project. The author contrasts these founders with funded startups that, in their experience, often cannot substantiate basic claims.