Iddo Gino

CTech’s May 2023 profile states that he grew up in Haifa, Israel, the son of Sharon, a doctor, and Micha, an electrical engineer. When he was 10 the family moved to Christchurch, New Zealand, for two years; in 2011 a strong earthquake caused extensive damage to the city, including to the family home, and caught him on his school’s rugby field, after which the family returned to Israel.⁠[1]

The profile adds that after the return to Israel he taught himself to write code and create Flash animations, and that, by his own account, by age 13 he was programming games and selling them for hundreds of dollars.⁠[1]

CTech’s profile states that he attended the Reali School in Haifa and that his parents, who saw him as an exceptional child, supported his enrollment in programming courses at the Open University and the Technion. He also organized hackathons sponsored by GoogleGoogleGoogle is an American technology company founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin and incorporated in 1998. It became an Alphabet subsidiary in 2015. Its businesses include internet search, advertising, software platforms, cloud computing, and artificial intelligence.Open the full entry, Microsoft and Facebook. The profile states that he did not enlist in the Israel Defense Forces and, instead of joining Unit 8200, was accepted into two prestigious programs in Silicon Valley: Peter ThielPeter ThielPeter Thiel is an American entrepreneur and investor, a co-founder of PayPal and Palantir Technologies, and the first outside investor in Facebook. He is a partner at the venture capital firm Founders Fund and founded the Thiel Fellowship, which funds young people to leave college and build new things; his public skepticism of higher education, his support for Trump in 2016, and his funding of litigation against Gawker Media have drawn controversy.Open the full entry’s scholarship and the 500 Global start-up accelerator.⁠[1]

Accounts of his studies at the Technion differ: a 2015 Startup Grind blog post states that while still in high school he completed a bachelor’s degree in computer science at the Technion, while TechCrunchTechCrunchTechCrunch is an American technology news outlet founded in 2005 by Michael Arrington and Keith Teare and headquartered in San Francisco; it mainly covers technology companies, startups, and venture capital, and hosts events such as TechCrunch Disrupt. Its ownership passed successively through AOL, Verizon, and Yahoo, and in 2025 Regent announced its acquisition.Open the full entry wrote in 2016 that he studied briefly at the Technion.⁠[2][3]

In his ForbesForbesForbes is an American business media brand that began with Forbes magazine, founded by B.C. Forbes in 1917. It is known for rankings such as the Forbes 400, the World’s Billionaires list and 30 Under 30, and operates Forbes.com, ForbesLive events and licensed editions in 81 countries. Since 2014 a majority stake has been held by the Hong Kong investment group Integrated Whale Media; a 2021 plan to list on the New York Stock Exchange through a special purpose acquisition company was terminated in 2022. It is headquartered in Jersey City, New Jersey.Open the full entry Technology Council member profile he writes that he was previously a co-organizer of Hacking Gen Y, that he has programmed since childhood, and that he continues to contribute to open-source projects.⁠[4]

A Startup Grind blog post of May 2015 states that at 16 he began attending start-up events and meetups, and that his first idea was a mobile wallet for teenagers so that they could be self-sufficient and not dependent on bank credit; handling the server side, he built an internal system in which the basic functions took the form of blocks, cutting server work from many hours or days to about five minutes. Fellow entrepreneurs at HAC, the Herzliya city accelerator he belonged to at the time, wanted to use it, the team shared it with them, and this led to Rapid API. TechCrunch wrote in 2018 that he came up with the idea as a student, when attending many hackathons showed him that there was no efficient way to discover and use the wider range of APIs.⁠[2][5]

The post states that the team presented at the Mixi convention, where the Israeli angel investor Dov Moran was a judge in the start-up contest; afterwards Moran contacted him and they met, the team soon received a seed investment, and Moran went on to mentor him on engineering, marketing and company building. Other sources describe this early investment differently: TechCrunch wrote in 2016 that Moran “discovered” him at a local hackathon and gave him mentorship and $250,000 in seed money; CTech wrote in April 2023 that he started the company after meeting Moran at a hackathon; and Moran said in CTech’s May 2023 profile that he invested $60,000 at a pre-money valuation of $180,000, the amount Gino had asked for.⁠[2][3][6][1]

CTech states that he founded RapidAPI in 2015 at age 17, while still a minor too young to sign an agreement, so that his father signed for him; his co-founders were Daniel Chernenkov and Mickey Haslavsky, both already 20, and Chernenkov left after one year. CTech’s April 2023 report states that he founded the company while still at high school in Haifa; Globes wrote in 2021 that he was 18 when he founded it in 2015.⁠[1][7][6][8]

In a December 2018 interview with Software Engineering Daily he recalled that RapidAPI began early in 2015 as a GitHub repository of commonly used APIs with standardized code snippets and a shared SDK, so that “suddenly you had one SDK that connects to all of them”; it started with about 20 APIs and had about 200 by the middle of the year. Towards the end of 2015 the team decided to build an API marketplace and launched the rapidapi.com website. In 2018 he said: “We put that on Github, and were surprised to see that after a few months, we had 5,000 developers using that.” CTech states that the company’s first product was this API marketplace, which took a 20% commission on each transaction; one of the first employees said there was no business model in the first two years.⁠[9][5][1]

In March 2015 Rapid API won the audience vote among the start-ups presenting at a Startup Grind Tel Aviv event. The Startup Grind blog post published on May 14, 2015 introduces him as the 17-year-old CEO of Rapid API and states that after the seed investment Rapid API had launched a beta with more than 100 active users.⁠[2]

In the post he says: “It’s all about trying. Just give it a try.” He adds that even when things go wrong, the lessons and the learning process still count.⁠[2]

TechCrunch wrote in November 2016 that he moved to the United StatesUnited StatesThe United States is a federal country in North America made up of 50 states, the District of Columbia as the seat of government, and territories such as Puerto Rico and Guam; its capital is Washington, D.C. The Continental Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776. The 2020 census (April 1, 2020) counted a resident population of 331,449,281, and the 435 seats of the House of Representatives are apportioned among the states on the basis of the census.Open the full entry in January 2016; CTech wrote in 2023 that he went to San Francisco in 2017, at the age of 18 and two weeks.⁠[3][1]

CTech states that he received a further $150,000 in the 500 Global accelerator; an acquaintance from Silicon Valley recalled of that time: “Everyone drinks beer, and only he orders Diet Coke.” TechCrunch wrote in November 2016 that RapidAPI had recently completed the 500 Startups accelerator program.⁠[1][3]

In March 2016 Forbes Israel published its first “30 under 30” list, which named him on the technology list as the 18-year-old CEO of Rapid; because so many strong candidates emerged, the list named 60 people, in technology, media, government, culture, social entrepreneurship and finance. His personal website and his Forbes Technology Council member profile also state that he has been named to a Forbes “30 Under 30” list.⁠[10][11][4]

On November 21, 2016, TechCrunch described RapidAPI’s $3.5 million seed round, led by Martin CasadoMartin CasadoMartin Casado is a computer scientist, entrepreneur and venture capitalist who is a general partner at Andreessen Horowitz, where he leads infrastructure investing. A major proponent of software-defined networking, he co-founded Nicira and served as its chief technology officer, and after VMware acquired the company he ran its networking and security business; he also co-founded the nonprofit MuralNet.Open the full entry of Andreessen HorowitzAndreessen HorowitzAndreessen Horowitz (a16z) is a venture capital firm founded in 2009 by Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz. It invests from the seed stage through the growth stage and provides operational support to its portfolio companies.Open the full entry with participation from FundersClub, SV AngelSV AngelSV Angel is a San Francisco venture capital firm cofounded in 2009 by angel investor Ron Conway and former Google executive David Lee. It typically writes small follow-on checks in seed rounds and has invested in companies such as Airbnb, Pinterest, and Dropbox; in 2018 it said it would no longer raise new funds from outside investors, and from 2022 it set up growth funds.Open the full entry, Green Bay Advisors and 500 Startups. The article calls RapidAPI a two-year-old San Francisco start-up that helps developers find, test and manage APIs; the platform then supported more than 200 APIs, the company had 16 people and wanted to multiply the number of APIs tenfold within a year, and the most-used APIs on the platform included the Spotify API and the Google Search API. The article adds that RapidAPI was helping eBayeBayeBay Inc. is an online marketplace company headquartered in San Jose, California, United States, founded in 1995 by Pierre Omidyar; it started out with person-to-person online auctions and listed on Nasdaq in 1998. As of the end of 2025, it had 135 million active buyers, and its platform’s gross merchandise volume in 2025 was nearly $80 billion.Open the full entry manage and connect hundreds of internal APIs built over time with different standards and protocols.⁠[3]

The article states that he had been a high school senior in Haifa the previous year and was then 18. Comparing companies’ APIs to plumbing, he said that “Each company has its own language,” which developers must learn for each company and sometimes for each division; RapidAPI, he said, had built large repositories of translator units, so that “we don’t need an API company to change anything.” The article states that RapidAPI offered free, open-source adapters for connecting APIs and planned to earn revenue as a services integrator.⁠[3]

On May 23, 2017, RapidAPI announced that it had bought Mashape’s API marketplace; SiliconANGLE described the deal as a merger of the two API marketplaces. Mashape also developed an API gateway called Kong. eWEEK wrote that developers could now find, test and connect to about 7,500 APIs in one place; RapidAPI claimed the combined marketplace would become the world’s largest, which eWEEK judged likely after checking, since other repositories held hundreds or low thousands of APIs; by his account the two companies had about 370,000 developers making 300 billion API calls a month, more than 100,000 per second. Users could log in with either a RapidAPI or a Mashape account, and existing apps and APIs kept working without code changes. SiliconANGLE noted that the terms were not disclosed.⁠[12][13]

Announcing the deal, he said: “Our plan has always been to consolidate all of the APIs in the world under one roof.” He also said: “RapidAPI’s mission and plan is to connect all the software in the world by helping developers find and consume APIs more easily.”⁠[13][12]

On June 16, 2017 the Thiel Foundation named the 25 members of the 2017 class of Thiel Fellows, and he was among them. The announcement states that the two-year Thiel FellowshipThiel FellowshipThe Thiel Fellowship is a two-year grant program started by investor Peter Thiel and run by the Thiel Foundation that funds young people who skip or stop out of college to build new things instead. The program has been criticized by figures in education for encouraging young people to leave college.Open the full entry provides $100,000 and mentorship from the Thiel Foundation’s network and encourages fellows to start companies full-time instead of attending college, and that the fellows were selected from thousands of applications from around the world. The list gives him as from Haifa, Israel / San Francisco, CaliforniaCaliforniaCalifornia is a U.S. state on the Pacific coast; its capital is Sacramento and its largest city is Los Angeles. California was admitted to the Union on September 9, 1850, as the 31st state. Its population at the 2020 Census (April 1, 2020) was 39,538,223, the largest of any state.Open the full entry, with the project RapidAPI in the field “Software,” and describes him: “Iddo founded RapidAPI, which helps nearly half a million developers find, test, and deploy APIs.”⁠[14][14]

The “About Me” page of his personal website and his Forbes Technology Council member profile both describe him as a 2017 Thiel Fellow. CTech described the grant in 2023 as Peter Thiel’s scholarship that annually awards $100,000 to 20 people under the age of 20, meant to show that a company can be started without academic studies.⁠[11][4][1]

On March 13, 2018, RapidAPI announced a $9 million Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz, with participation from SV Angel, Green Bay Capital and Tony Jamous, co-founder and CEO of Nexmo, to expand to more APIs and more developers. The platform then had about 8,000 APIs, up from 200 eighteen months earlier, and about 500,000 developers, up from 30,000 eighteen months earlier, partly through the Mashape acquisition, and processed about 400 billion API calls a month; RapidAPI took a 1% cut of each API call made on the platform, and its revenue was in the millions. Originally from Haifa, Israel, the company was then based in San Francisco with offices in Israel and in Kiev, Ukraine; co-founder Mickey Haslavsky was then its general manager.⁠[5]

TechCrunch wrote that he was then 20. He said: “You can't build everything from scratch, and using APIs makes work a lot more efficient.” He added that APIs on the platform were ranked by usage, so that the most popular appeared first, and he called Stripe and its co-founders, the Collison brothers, his “inspiration.”⁠[5]

CTech states that co-founder Mickey Haslavsky left the company in 2018 but remained a shareholder.⁠[1]

On December 6, 2018, Software Engineering Daily published an interview with him, introducing him as CEO and founder of RapidAPI and covering why RapidAPI was created and the engineering behind it. In the interview he said the platform’s catalog then held a little over 8,000 APIs; San Francisco was home to product, marketing and sales, while Tel Aviv was the main engineering site and, with about 25 people, the largest office; the company had also opened an office in Kiev to hire faster as it scaled. He explained that the Bay Area presence was there because many of the API partners it worked with were based there, and to be close to developers and conferences.⁠[15][9]

On June 11, 2019, RapidAPI announced a $25 million Series B led by M12, MicrosoftMicrosoftMicrosoft is a technology company founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen in 1975 and headquartered in Redmond, Washington, with businesses spanning Windows, Microsoft 365, Azure, enterprise software, artificial intelligence, gaming and devices.Open the full entry’s venture arm, with DNS Capital and previous investors Andreessen Horowitz, Green Bay Capital and Grove Ventures participating, bringing total funding to about $38 million; Mony Hassid, general manager and managing director of M12, joined RapidAPI’s board. The marketplace then had 10,000 APIs, which RapidAPI estimated to be 33% of publicly available APIs worldwide, 1 million developers and 500 billion API calls a month; the company had about 50 employees in San Francisco, Tel Aviv and Ukraine.⁠[16]

The company also launched RapidAPI for Teams, which helps groups manage public APIs and organize internal APIs and microservices, free for up to five developers and $10 per user per month beyond that. He said the funds would go toward expanding the marketplace and its developer tools, that the deal terms were clear, and that RapidAPI remained free to partner with others, including Microsoft’s competitors; he added that about 20,000 more APIs were left out of the count because they were stale (not used, mostly private).⁠[16]

On May 21, 2020, RapidAPI announced a further $25 million as a second close of its Series B, bringing the round to $50 million and total funding to $62.5 million; the money came from existing investors Andreessen Horowitz, DNS Capital, Green Bay Ventures, M12 and Grove. As CEO he declined to disclose the valuation. The company then had 75 employees, and the marketplace tracked and integrated 20,000 APIs, double the number a year earlier, adding about 1,000 a month; more than one million developers used the platform, and 18,000 teams used its Teams product.⁠[17]

The article states that 300,000 new developers had joined since January, which the company said was six times the monthly rate of the same five months of 2019, and that between March 1 and mid-May the top five COVID-19 APIs on the platform received more than 224 million calls, peaking at almost 4.5 million in a single day; paid subscriptions had grown by 30,000.⁠[17]

In February 2021 RapidAPI acquired Paw, an API development tool, adding API testing and API design to its platform. CTech also wrote in 2023 that Rapid acquired an Estonian company in 2021.⁠[18][8][1]

On April 21, 2021, RapidAPI announced a $60 million Series C led by Green Bay Ventures, with Stripes joining as a new investor and existing investors Andreessen Horowitz, DNS Capital, M12, Viola Growth and Grove Ventures participating, bringing total funding to $122.5 million. Globes wrote that the company had 110 employees, 50 of them in Israel; CTech wrote that it had 50 employees in Tel Aviv and 50 in the United States and planned to grow from 100 to 200 people, half of the new hires in Israel. Over the previous 12 months the marketplace had grown to almost 3 million developers, adding more than 750,000, and to more than 35,000 APIs, double the figure a year earlier, adding about 1,000 a month from providers including Microsoft, IBMIBMIBM (International Business Machines Corporation) is an American information technology company, renamed in 1924 from the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company (C-T-R).Open the full entry, Twilio, SendGridSendGridSendGrid is an email delivery service for developers and businesses that was founded in 2009 out of the Techstars accelerator, listed on the New York Stock Exchange in 2017, was acquired by Twilio in 2019 and now operates as Twilio SendGrid.Open the full entry, Nexmo and Crunchbase; 12,000 new paid API subscribers had been added in 2020, and more than 55,000 teams used RapidAPI for Teams.⁠[18][8]

He said that APIs were becoming “the building blocks for digital transformation efforts across all industries,” that there was “a fundamental shift toward API platforms and tools like RapidAPI,” and that the additional funding would let the company continue to build a flexible API platform.⁠[18]

On March 23, 2022, RapidAPI announced a $150 million Series D led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2 of SoftBank GroupSoftBank GroupSoftBank Group (SoftBank Group Corp.) is an investment holding company headquartered in Tokyo, founded by Masayoshi Son in 1981. Starting out as a distributor of personal computer software, it moved into the internet, broadband and mobile communications, and has since become an investment group centered on AI-related assets such as Arm, the SoftBank Vision Funds and OpenAI.Open the full entry, with Qumra joining and returning backers Andreessen Horowitz, M12, Viola Growth, Green Bay and Grove Ventures participating, at a valuation of $1 billion; TechCrunch wrote that PitchBookPitchBookPitchBook is a private capital market data, research and software company headquartered in Seattle, Washington, United States. Founded by John Gabbert in 2007, it was fully acquired by Morningstar in 2016 at a valuation of $225 million and operates as a Morningstar subsidiary. The PitchBook segment’s revenue was $671.8 million in 2025.Open the full entry data had valued it at just $355 million at the April 2021 Series C. The platform then had 4 million users, having added 1 million developers in a year, revenue had grown 110% over the same period, and about 25,000 individual users had signed up for paid plans in 2021; the user base was roughly split between self-service individuals and enterprises. CTech states that Grove Ventures is Dov Moran’s firm.⁠[19][6]

He said: “We want to build a full OS for API usage,” with RapidAPI “becoming a full suite of tools, anything you might need for API usage”; many businesses, he said, did not even know how many APIs they used, and “Getting that visibility is super valuable.”⁠[19]

Looking back in a 2025 interview with CTech, he recalled a Zoom call in which, after a 20-minute presentation, Masayoshi SonMasayoshi SonMasayoshi Son (born 1957) is a Japanese entrepreneur and investor who founded SoftBank Group in 1981 and has served as its chairman and CEO ever since. He is known for early investments in Yahoo and Alibaba, the acquisitions of Sprint and Arm, the nearly $100 billion SoftBank Vision Fund, and in recent years his bets on OpenAI and AI infrastructure.Open the full entry said, “I really like this company. I want to put more money in, let's put in $150 million,” and within five minutes Rapid’s valuation doubled to match the amount Son wanted to invest; the final investment was about $100 million. He regards that investment as Rapid’s biggest mistake and, in hindsight, would not have taken it.⁠[7]

On April 19, 2023, Rapid informed its employees that he would no longer serve as CEO and would stay on as a technology consultant, replaced by Marc Friend, who had joined three months earlier as chief financial officer in order to take over his role; he was then 25. CTech wrote that day that Rapid denied layoffs would follow the change but had paused hiring until the new CEO presented a plan; Rapid then described itself as a leading API Hub provider with more than 4 million active developers.⁠[6][1]

CTech’s May 2023 profile states that in January 2023 about 160 of the company’s roughly 200 employees gathered from San Francisco, Israel and Berlin for a five-day meetup in Marrakesh, Morocco; one employee recalled that when he was asked whether layoffs were coming, he replied, “There is no such expectation,” adding, “We can survive for three years without a problem, since we hardly touched the money from the last round.” On a podcast two weeks before his dismissal, asked what kept him awake at night, he said, “Building the team. We are recruiting employees at a fast pace.” Of his plans he said, “The opportunity here is huge. I would love to go public and continue to grow the company.”⁠[1]

The profile states that less than a week after Friend took over the company dismissed 100 employees, and two weeks later 70 more, leaving 42, a reduction a source described as 80% of the workforce. It adds that the company had raised $270 million in total, that its investors also included Qumra Capital and Citi Ventures, and that Andreessen Horowitz had recommended the experienced Sasha Pesic, who was recruited as chief operating officer.⁠[1]

In a 2025 interview with CTech he said that during the bubble the representatives of large funds on his board urged him to expand at all costs and, when the wind changed, pushed him to cut back just as quickly and drastically; he disagreed and was replaced by a CEO the funds brought in. He said: “There were older, more experienced people on the board, and I completely suffered from imposter syndrome.” He also said, “A lot of things happened because of my lack of self-confidence, which was also related to my age,” and “I could have built Rapid with half the people, or even fewer.” The interview states that after his replacement the company laid off almost half of its employees and shortly afterwards was left with only a quarter of its workforce, and puts its total funding at nearly $300 million. Globes wrote in 2025 that he stepped down as CEO in 2023 following disagreements with investors.⁠[7][20]

In a 2025 interview with CTech he said that after leaving Rapid he took a year off, traveled, invested in companies and worked as a consultant; at first he thought, like everyone else, that he would be an angel investor, but concluded he was a poor investor and soon changed course. He said: “In my year off, I discovered things about myself, and one of them is that I enjoy building companies the most.” During this period he mainly skied and completed three Ironman races, “which is two too many.”⁠[7]

The “About Me” page of his personal website describes him as a 26-year-old entrepreneur in the Bay Area who spent about a decade founding and scaling RapidAPI, which it calls “the world’s largest API marketplace,” used by more than 5 million developers, and states that he is working on new ideas and advising dev tools and API companies.⁠[11]

On November 13, 2024, Nokia announced in Espoo, Finland, that it had acquired Rapid’s technology assets and R&D unit, including what its release calls “the world’s largest API hub,” which it says is used by thousands of active developers globally, to strengthen its development of network API solutions and ecosystem; the agreement was signed and closed that day, and financial details were not disclosed. Rapid CEO Marc Friend said in the release: “We are pleased to join forces with Nokia.”⁠[21]

Globes wrote in 2025 that a year after he stepped down, RapidAPI’s assets were sold to Nokia. CTech’s 2025 interview states that the company had been sold to Nokia a year earlier for pennies, Nokia mainly acquiring its intellectual property.⁠[20][7]

In January 2025 he founded the AI company Datawizz in the United States and became its chief executive; between its founding in January and March the company developed its software. CTech states that he had lived in the United States for several years and is the company’s sole founder; he said he had not found a co-founder: “I haven’t yet found the person who can tolerate me as a co-founder for long periods.”⁠[7][22]

On September 30, 2025, Datawizz announced a $12.5 million seed round led by the U.S. venture firm Human Capital, with participation from BGV and 91VC, both earlier investors in RapidAPI; CTech wrote that Andreessen Horowitz and SoftBank Group did not take part. Globes wrote that the money would go toward accelerating development of its specialized language model products, expanding the team and entering the U.S. and European markets; the company then had just four employees in San Francisco and Tel Aviv and had its first customers in fintech, e-commerce and SaaS. CTech wrote that the company planned to build R&D operations in Israel and to reach 10 employees by the end of the year. CTech’s news report gave his age as 26, while its interview published the same day gave it as 27.⁠[20][22][7]

Datawizz develops “Specialized Language Models”: its platform acts as an intermediate layer between an organization and its model, automatically generating small, focused models from relevant knowledge, routing each query to the most suitable specialized model and correcting errors, and calling a general model only when no specialized one fits; the models can also run on PCs and phones so that data stays on the device, reducing dependence on companies such as OpenAIOpenAIOpenAI is an artificial intelligence research and product organization founded in 2015 that develops the GPT model series, ChatGPT, Codex and a developer API, and conducts research on image, speech, video and intelligent agents. After its 2025 restructuring, the nonprofit OpenAI Foundation continues to control the for-profit OpenAI Group PBC. Its growth has involved large-scale fundraising and compute partnerships, and has also been accompanied by controversies over governance, copyright, privacy and AI safety.Open the full entry and Anthropic. The company cites an average 85% improvement in costs and reduced work times for its users, and the product was then running in pilot programs at dozens of companies, not all of them paying yet. He said that companies spent $8.4 billion on API calls to large language models in the first half of 2025, more than double the figure for all of 2024; the company predicts that by 2030 about 70% of AI traffic will be handled by specialized models with fewer than 5 billion parameters.⁠[20][22][7]

CTech’s interview is headlined with his words: “I hope the AI bubble bursts soon. I need it to happen for my startup to succeed.” The interview states that Datawizz’s term sheet had no preset valuation and that he chose a more reasonable number, far lower than investors expected.⁠[7]

CTech wrote in 2025 that he had lived in San Francisco in recent years, and the interview was held over a Zoom call from San Francisco. In it he said he had no children yet, “which is still too early for me.” CTech wrote in 2023 that he had turned down wine while under 21 and that his SlackSlackSlack is a team communication and collaboration platform developed from an internal tool at Tiny Speck. It organizes work through channels, direct messages, searchable history and integrations, with features including Huddles, Clips, Canvas and AI assistance. Its paid service launched in February 2014, and Salesforce completed its acquisition in July 2021.Open the full entry status has since read “turning Diet Coke into code.”⁠[7][1]

As a member of the Forbes Technology Council he published four articles on the Forbes website: “Five Ways To Build Out An API Strategy In Today’s Software-Driven Economy” (November 7, 2019), “Why An API Hub Is Critical To Fueling Innovation In The Enterprise” (February 3, 2020), “Why Almost Every Company Is Now An API Company” (September 16, 2021) and “What Organizations Need To Know About External API Marketplaces (Part One)” (April 5, 2023).⁠[23]

On his personal website he publishes short technical posts: one on the “too many redirects” error he hit when setting up a custom domain on Posthaven because of Cloudflare’s SSL settings, and how to fix it; another on how he built a right-click Quick Action with Microsoft’s markitdown utility and macOS Automator to convert files to Markdown for AI tools such as OllamaOllamaOllama is an AI infrastructure company that develops the Ollama tool for downloading and running open large language models on personal computers and in the cloud. Founded by Jeffrey Morgan and Michael Chiang and part of Y Combinator’s Winter 2021 batch, it announced in 2026 that it had raised $88 million in total.Open the full entry running locally.⁠[24]

Personal website: https://iddogino.com/ (opens in a new window).⁠[24]

Datawizz: Official website: https://datawizz.ai/ (opens in a new window).⁠[25]

RapidAPI: Official website: https://rapidapi.com/ (opens in a new window).⁠[26]

Thiel Fellowship: Official website: https://thielfellowship.org/ (opens in a new window).⁠[27]

X: Public account: https://x.com/iddogino (opens in a new window).⁠[4]

LinkedInLinkedInLinkedIn is a social networking platform for professionals. It was founded in 2002 by Reid Hoffman and others, launched in 2003, and listed on the New York Stock Exchange in 2011; after Microsoft acquired it for approximately $26.2 billion in 2016, it became a wholly owned Microsoft subsidiary. Its revenue comes from membership subscriptions, advertising, and recruitment solutions.Open the full entry: Public profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/iddogino/ (opens in a new window).⁠[4]