As an executive coach since 2014, I have coached hundreds of founders, executives, and managers in moving from fighting fires (and each other) all day to clear focus, emotional balance, and awesome results. Then I built Flow State, a personalized Operating System guiding users to clarify and focus on what matters most.

Akash Sharma is CEO and co-founder of Vellum, a Y Combinator W23 company that has raised $25M Series A. Before Vellum, he spent five years at McKinsey's Silicon Valley office and was a PM at Dover. He studied industrial engineering at UC Berkeley, decided he never wanted to be a software engineer, and today ships production code every week. He built Vellum's AI assistant because he needed it himself: something that acts in the world, not just answers questions. He's talked to over 2,500 teams building with AI in production.