Michael Ioffe

On October 1, 2015, The Cardinal Times, the student newspaper of Lincoln, his high school in Portland, published an article by Sammy Gold describing him as a junior at Lincoln and a full IB student. It says that he became interested in business in middle school after attending a business event, that he was working part-time as a salesman for ReelDX, a local medical video startup, and that he had been featured on KATU news and in the Portland Business Journal.⁠[1]

A January 2017 article in Poets&Quants for Undergrads says that he once wanted to attend a business camp he could not afford and later earned a scholarship to attend it, that he was interested in finance and architecture and hoped to work in affordable housing one day, and that he wanted to study business in college.⁠[2]

In an open letter to the TILE community he recalls that he grew up wanting to learn from local innovators, leaders and entrepreneurs; near the end of his sophomore year of high school, with the help of teachers and mentors, he saw a simpler way to bridge a gap in social capital, and in his junior year he hosted the first eight talks under the name Stumptown Speaker Series. He writes that it started “in the basement of a theater in Portland, OregonOregonOregon (officially the State of Oregon) is a state on the Pacific coast of the western United States; its capital is Salem and its largest city is Portland. It was admitted to the Union on February 14, 1859, as the 33rd state. Its population in the 2020 census (April 1, 2020) was 4,237,256.Open the full entry.”⁠[3]

In a Silicon Florist article of September 11, 2015, Rick Turoczy wrote that he was the founder of the Stumptown Speaker Series, a startup-focused series organized by high school students for high school students, and that its first event would take place from 7 to 8 p.m. on the Monday after the article at PCS Armory, where Turoczy would talk with him on stage.⁠[4]

The Cardinal Times wrote in October 2015 that he spent five months organizing this free series of talks by local entrepreneurs: he presented the idea to the school board, recruited volunteers, marketed the events and scripted the talks. The first talk was held in September at Portland Center Stage with Rick Turoczy of the Portland Incubator Experiment (called general manager in the text and chief executive officer in the photo caption); the talks were monthly, about an hour each, open to all but aimed especially at young people, and funded by donations, and he was looking for a sponsor. On the rest of the season, the article says in one place that eight more speakers were scheduled through April and in another that seven talks had been organized. He said: “The first talk went better than expected, it was really fun,” and: “This speaker series is by no means a class.”⁠[1]

Accounts differ on when he began: Kveller wrote in November 2017 that as a high school freshman he cold-called business leaders and innovators to speak at a citywide talk series on Portland’s northeast side, to make up for a lack of educational resources for some of his peers; it says that he was rejected “a few hundred times” and contacted about 20 venues before the first series found a host. Poets&Quants for Undergrads writes that the series held monthly talks, which he says around 500 students attended over a year, with speakers including Mat Ellis of Cloudability and Dave Sanders of Zoom+; he said that he “realized that this was a need within the community,” because “Students weren’t receiving the enrichment opportunities that they needed.”⁠[5][2]

In his open letter he writes that midway through the first season he wrote a manual on organizing conversation series, which he later began sharing online and by email; its popularity led him to create a nonprofit, Talks on Innovation, Leadership, and Entrepreneurship (TILE). He writes that within three months TILE had thirty chapters on four continents and that six months later its 100th chapter opened in Bhubaneswar, India. Kveller says that the manual ran to 14 pages and was meant to let students create their own speaker series.⁠[3][5]

His Forbes 30 Under 30 profile says that at 15 he founded Tile, a nonprofit that holds live events connecting local founders with young people in 50 countries; his author biography on The Learning Guild’s website likewise says that he founded TILE.org, an entrepreneurship education nonprofit, at age 15.⁠[6][7]

On January 13, 2017, Poets&Quants for Undergrads published “This High Schooler Built A Global Nonprofit” by Naomi Nishihara, profiling him as a high school senior in Portland and who “one whirlwind year” later was the founder and executive director of TILE, which had 57 chapters in 12 countries and ran on a budget of $500 a year. It says that chapter leaders had to be students and events had to be free, that he vetted the leaders and sent them a free manual, and that his support team answered questions within 24 hours.⁠[2]

The Cardinal Times wrote in May 2017 that he led a schoolwide walkout at Lincoln after Portland Public Schools delayed a vote on a school bond measure; a photo caption in the article says that he held a sit-in at the Portland Public Schools headquarters on September 6, 2016, and spoke to the media afterward. The article also says that he had spoken in TEDx talks.⁠[8]

On May 30, 2017, The Cardinal Times published an article by Alex Paskill and Stuart Diffely on him as a graduating senior at Lincoln, saying that he had met his goals of graduating from high school and keeping a good GPA for college. It says that the Stumptown Speaker Series he founded had become TILE, which it calls the world’s largest student-run speaker series, with 117 locations in 21 countries and the goal of making conversations with innovators and entrepreneurs accessible to everyone. He said that most people lack access to truly interesting conversations with interesting people, and that he had quickly realized that the model he created for the Stumptown Speaker Series was scalable and could be used by any person in the world.⁠[8]

The article says that he planned to take a gap year the following year to expand TILE, which he believed could influence a generation of innovators and entrepreneurs and improve business and leadership ethics; the article judges that in four years at Lincoln he had left a deep mark on the school and on the world.⁠[8]

He received a 2017 Diller Teen Tikkun Olam Award. The award’s pages on Medium describe it as recognizing up to 15 Jewish teen leaders each year, with $36,000 each, for work to “repair the world,” and a photo caption accompanying his open letter identifies him as a 2017 awardee.⁠[3][5]

On November 15, 2017, Kveller published “Meet the Jewish Teen Connecting Students With Business Leaders, Innovators and Entrepreneurs” by Abby Sher, which calls TILE the world’s largest conversation series, with 180 locations in 32 countries offering free monthly conversations for high school and college students, particularly from low-income backgrounds, and says that he was entering his freshman year at Babson CollegeBabson CollegeBabson College is a private nonprofit college in Wellesley, Massachusetts, United States. Founded by Roger Babson in 1919 as the Babson Institute, it took its present name in 1969 and concentrates on business and entrepreneurship education.Open the full entry as a Weissman Scholar, hoping to study finance, design and architectural history. His goals were 500 chapters by the end of 2017 and one million students by the end of 2018, and he planned to translate the manual into other languages; speakers who impressed him included the local entrepreneur Micah Camden and a co-founder of WebMD.⁠[5]

His speaker biography for the ASU+GSV Summit also lists his recognition as a Weissman Scholar, and a 2019 Babson College article identifies him as a member of the college’s class of 2021.⁠[9][10]

An article by Kait Smith Lanthier in Babson Thought & Action, published by Babson College on April 8, 2019, says that his conversations with students in Yemen, where limited access to high-speed internet kept billions of students from educational videos online, led him to the idea that text messages could bridge the gap in digital learning; a Yemeni student, Mohammed Al-Adlani, helped him see the potential of text messaging, which the article calls the most reliable and widespread digital communication medium. It says that the first course, “Introduction to Entrepreneurship,” launched in May 2018 and was developed with Babson College and the University of Southern CaliforniaUniversity of Southern CaliforniaThe University of Southern California (USC) is a private research university in Los Angeles, California, planned by a group led by Judge Robert Maclay Widney and opened to students in 1880.Open the full entry, that courses run 10 to 60 days with a 900-character concept explanation and an exercise each day, and that Arist, which he co-founded, is “the first text message university”; it also cites studies by Stanford UniversityStanford UniversityStanford University is a research university in California founded by Leland and Jane Stanford in 1885 and opened in 1891.Open the full entry and Penn State showing the educational potential of text messages.⁠[10]

His Forbes profile says that Tile’s work in Yemen, where civil war had closed schools, inspired him to deliver short courses by cell phone text. Arist’s “About” page says that in 2018 Arist began delivering entrepreneurship courses to high school students in a conflict zone where internet access and laptops were scarce but phones were widespread, so the courses were built as text messages. A 2022 article by PeakSpan Capital says that Arist began by offering entrepreneurship courses to high school students in the Yemeni conflict zone, where access to high-speed internet or cell phone service was limited, and that after text-message conversations with Yemeni students the founders asked: “Why not teach using text messages?” Built In Boston wrote in 2020 that the idea for Arist came about while he was working in war-torn countries as a university student, focused on improving access to learning.⁠[6][11][12][13]

Accounts of Arist’s founding differ slightly: Y Combinator’s company page gives 2019 as the founding year and lists Michael Ioffe and Ryan Laverty as founders; PeakSpan Capital writes that he co-founded Arist in 2019 with Ryan Laverty and Maxine Anderson; Arist’s 2020 funding release says that the company was founded by Michael Ioffe, Ryan Laverty and Maxine Anderson; and 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 profile says that in 2019 he launched Arist, a Boston-based platform that hosts classes over text. Arist’s own website traces the company’s beginnings to 2018.⁠[14][12][15][6][11]

The 2019 Babson College article lists the team as Ryan Laverty (class of 2020), Maxine Anderson (class of 2022) and Joe Passanante, and a 2020 Austin Startups article says that Arist’s co-founders met as students at Babson College. Y Combinator’s biography of Ryan Laverty says that before Arist he ran a public speaking coaching and training company.⁠[10][16][14]

The Babson College article of April 2019 says that Arist was a finalist in Fast Company’s 2019 World Changing Ideas competition, placing among the top 20 education-focused innovations and the top 200 overall for the past year. He said: “Arist started out as a somewhat ridiculous idea—why not teach using text messages?” and that being recognized by Fast Company was validation that the team was “onto something”; the 2020 Austin Startups article also quotes these words. Arist’s 2020 press release also mentions the finalist place and the top-20 ranking in education.⁠[10][16][15]

The author page on The Learning Guild’s website lists his article “Arist Sees the Future of Global eLearning—in Text Messages,” dated September 18, 2019. The author biography there says that he has been obsessed with education for as long as he can remember and describes Arist as a Boston-based platform that helps organizations, including GE and the state of 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, train employees through text-based courses.⁠[7]

An Austin Startups article of February 10, 2020 says that Arist was one of 50 finalists for SXSW Pitch 2020, scheduled to present in the Social and Culture Technology category on March 14, 2020, from 11 a.m. to noon at the Hilton Austin Downtown, and describes him, then 20, as Arist’s CEO and co-founder and the originator of its concept. It says that Arist helps organizations create, launch and assess text-message courses in which learners receive a daily text of 1,200 characters over 5 to 30 days, choosing the delivery time and platform (SMS, WhatsApp or Facebook Messenger), with a concept explanation or case study, an optional image and an assessment each day; the format had been used for architectural history and compliance training, its design drew on research from Stanford University and UPennUniversity of PennsylvaniaThe University of Pennsylvania, commonly called Penn, is a private research university and Ivy League member in Philadelphia. It traces its origins to a 1740 charity-school project; Benjamin Franklin proposed his academy in 1749, classes began in 1751, and a 1791 merger established the institution under its present name. Penn has 12 schools, with undergraduate education concentrated in arts and sciences, engineering, nursing and Wharton. Enrollment totaled 29,384 in fall 2025, and the fiscal 2025 endowment was $24.81 billion. As of October 2026, J. Larry Jameson was president, with his term scheduled to end on June 30, 2027.Open the full entry, and the article claims completion and satisfaction rates up to 20 times higher than other forms of digital learning.⁠[16]

He says in the article that the team built the first version on cheesecakes from Tatte, a café with locations in the Boston area; that he wanted one million people to take a text-message course by the end of 2020; and that he sees messaging as the most native medium for Generation Z, one that could transform everything from learning and tutoring to payments and financial management.⁠[16]

Arist took part in Y Combinator’s Summer 2020 batch. Y Combinator’s company page calls Arist the only message-based learning platform, helping more than 10% of Fortune 500 companies as well as governments train employees through tools such as SMS, 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, WhatsApp and Microsoft Teams. 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 2021 that it had earlier covered Arist as part of the CRV-backed Liftoff List and at Y Combinator’s summer 2020 demo day, where TechCrunch’s notes on Arist’s presentation recorded that it already had “several big ticket clients” and said it would soon be profitable.⁠[14][17]

In a press release datelined Boston, Arist announced that it had raised $1.9 million from Acadian Ventures, Global Founders Capital and Craft Ventures, with participation from Y Combinator, Soma Capital, Emles Venture Partners, Hack VC, Rebel Fund, Liquid 2 Ventures and angel investors including Derek Schoettle (CEO of Cloudant) and Adam Goldstein (founder of Hipmunk). The release names DuPont, the Poynter Institute and the State of California as customers, says that more than 50 companies, universities and nonprofits use Arist, and says that organizations can launch courses on topics such as diversity and inclusion, compliance, sales enablement and safety training in minutes, building them seven times faster than video or app-based courses, which suits frontline employees without laptops or learning management systems. Built In Boston covered the round in an article of October 16, 2020.⁠[15][13]

In the release he described digital learning as “broken,” saying that the shift to remote work and video fatigue made meaningful training harder to deliver, that launching remote-friendly courses in minutes has an immediate impact for thousands of people, and that the timing of the funding was “perfect” and would help Arist meet the growing need for better digital learning; Built In Boston also quotes these words.⁠[15][13]

He was named to the Forbes 30 Under 30 list for 2021 in the Education category. The profile lists him as co-founder of Arist, his location as Portland, Oregon, and his education as “Drop Out, Babson College”; it says that Arist’s customers include DuPont and the State of California, which offers residents a text course on disaster preparedness, that investors value Arist at $15 million, and that it had raised $2.1 million.⁠[6]

On March 10, 2021, TechCrunch published an article by Alex WilhelmAlex WilhelmAlex Wilhelm is a technology and business journalist, the writer of Cautious Optimism and a co-host of This Week in Startups. A former editor-in-chief of Crunchbase News and TechCrunch+, he covers startups, venture capital and public markets.Open the full entry saying that Arist had added $2 million to bring its seed round to $3.9 million: the initial $1.9 million was raised around the time it left Y Combinator, led by Craft Ventures at a $15 million valuation, and the further $2 million closed in December 2020, led by Global Founders Capital at what the founders said was a higher price. The founding team that spoke to TechCrunch consisted of Michael Ioffe as CEO, Ryan Laverty as president and Maxine Anderson as COO.⁠[17]

The article says that Arist charged around $1,000 a month at minimum; that the founders found pitching large companies easier after the pandemic hit, as staff were busier working from home and text-based training helped where internet access was limited; that Arist used freelancers to help new customers build their first course, keeping costs low, and planned to grow from about 11 people to about 30 by the end of the year; that the three founders were based in Boston but hired remotely and served global customers through a WhatsApp integration; that it aimed to grow revenue five- to tenfold by year-end and might raise more capital then; that it worked with Twilio to some degree, though the founders declined to say what discounts it received; and that Arist believed 80% of training should be delivered via SMS or Slack and Teams.⁠[17]

On July 12, 2022, Arist announced in a press release on PR NewswirePR NewswirePR Newswire is an American press release distribution service founded in New York in 1954 by Herbert Muschel. It sends news releases from companies, organizations, and public relations firms simultaneously to the media and the investment community, and is one of the pioneers of the commercial newswire industry; since 2016 it has been a business of the communications software company Cision.Open the full entry, datelined San Francisco, that it had raised $12 million in a Series A round led by PeakSpan Capital with participation from Rainfall Ventures. The release describes Arist as a microlearning platform used by Fortune 500 employers that delivers training through Slack, Microsoft Teams, WhatsApp and SMS, with users including EY, SAP and the Poynter Institute; it says that Arist launched text-based training in 2018 to bring learning to war zones with limited internet, that it had delivered more than 100,000 courses to more than 1,000 NGOs, governments and companies, including over 10% of the Fortune 500, and that its courses take as little as five minutes a day and are based on research from Harvard UniversityHarvard UniversityHarvard University is a private research university in Massachusetts, established by the Massachusetts Bay Colony legislature in 1636 and named in 1639 for early benefactor John Harvard. Its principal campuses are in Cambridge and the Allston and Longwood neighborhoods of Boston. It includes Harvard College, graduate and professional schools, and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. Two governing boards share oversight. Alan M. Garber was president as of October 2026, and the endowment stood at $56.9 billion at the end of fiscal 2025.Open the full entry and Stanford University.⁠[18]

In the release he said: “Millennial and Gen Z workers are already the fastest-growing sector of the labor force,” adding that legacy learning and development tools were not keeping pace with how this generation engages with work and that Arist’s short-form, skills-focused content aimed to raise engagement and retention and advance employers’ strategic goals. Built In’s report the same day also quotes Phil Dur, co-founder and managing partner of PeakSpan Capital, saying that Arist “cracked the code” by pairing bite-sized learning material with the channels learners prefer.⁠[18][19]

On July 13, 2022, PeakSpan Capital published “Our Thesis for Arist” by Phil Dur, Charlie Reinkemeyer and Sam Korman, stating that PeakSpan had led Arist’s Series A. It describes Arist’s mission as “bringing learning to the people,” says that it integrates natively with SMS, Slack, Teams and WhatsApp, and names 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, LennarLennarLennar Corporation (NYSE: LEN, LEN.B) is a homebuilder headquartered in Miami, Florida, United States, and one of the largest homebuilders in the United States by deliveries, revenue, and net earnings; it also originates mortgage loans, provides title insurance and closing services, and develops multifamily rental properties.Open the full entry, Ernst & Young, SAP and 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 as customers. It says that Arist saves an average of $200 per employee per year, that managers can launch a course in under five days compared with about two months for comparable solutions, that the platform has more than 50 course templates, and that engagement is five times that of conventional video courses; standalone courses typically run one five-minute lesson a day for 5 to 20 days. PeakSpan’s thesis is that Arist could become a leader of its product segment in the global learning and development market.⁠[12]

On February 8, 2023, the Thiel Foundation announced its next class of 20 Thiel Fellows, who joined 251 previous fellows, listing him 13th as “Michael Ioffe: Portland, OR // New York, NY.” The announcement describes his project as Arist, which helps leading companies build skills at scale by delivering bite-sized learning via SMS, Slack and Microsoft Teams. It says that the Thiel Fellowship, launched in 2011, encourages young people to start companies instead of attending college, and that fellows receive $100,000 during the two-year program.⁠[20]

His founder biography on Y Combinator’s website and his speaker biographies for the ASU+GSV Summit and Forrester also identify him as a Thiel Fellow.⁠[21][9][22]

As of November 2026, the “About” page of Arist’s website lists Michael Ioffe as CEO and co-founder and Maxine Anderson as COO and co-founder, and describes the team as New York-based, with eight years of building AI for dozens of Fortune 500 companies. It gives Arist’s mission as “enable excellence” and says that its AI research agents interview the people closest to a problem and analyze internal data to help leaders understand what is blocking outcomes and what to do next; that in the seven years since 2018 Arist delivered millions of courses to students, frontline employees and managers at large organizations; and that more than 50 Fortune 500 companies trust it, showing logos including Sprouts, Dick’s Sporting Goods, Ford, ExxonMobilExxonMobilExxonMobil is a U.S. integrated energy and petrochemical company whose business covers oil and gas exploration and production, fuels and chemicals manufacturing, and lower-emission technologies such as carbon capture. The group was formed by the 1999 merger of Exxon and Mobil, and after a 2026 reorganization its listed parent company is ExxonMobil Holdings Corporation.Open the full entry, Novartis, Eli LillyEli Lilly and CompanyEli Lilly and Company (NYSE: LLY) is a U.S. pharmaceutical company founded in 1876 by Colonel Eli Lilly and headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana.Open the full entry, EY and the U.S. Department of Labor. The page’s copyright is held by Arist Holdings, Inc.⁠[11]

Y Combinator’s company page gives Arist 23 employees in New York City, and his biography on Y Combinator’s website calls Arist “the AI sales enablement platform” used by Microsoft, HP, Eli Lilly and others. His ASU+GSV Summit speaker biography says that he co-founded Arist five years earlier to deliver learning in war zones and that it now provides AI agents for enterprise learning and development and enablement, supporting more than 10% of the Fortune 500, and calls him one of the youngest CEOs of any enterprise AI company globally. Forrester’s speaker page describes Arist as an AI research platform that helps clients such as Medtronic and Sprouts run AI voice interviews and analyze data at scale, and lists him as a speaker at its Technology & Innovation Forum East in New York City on November 4–5, 2026.⁠[14][21][9][22]

In his open letter he writes that TILE then had more than 300 locations in 46 countries, was adding about five chapters a week and had more than 1,000 chapter leaders, that he expected over 500,000 students to attend a TILE talk in the coming year, and that the target was 500 chapters by the end of the year. TILE’s first sponsor was Crimson Education, which would help students attend college; Kaseen Smith, leader of the Charlotte chapter, was taking over as CEO of TILE effective immediately, while he remained a board member and President and turned his focus to two other ventures he had founded: one creating a universal certification for small businesses that commit to net-zero by 2038, along with a student-led environmental education and advocacy platform (the letter does not give its name), and Arist, which the letter says was building “the world’s first SMS university” to make digital education accessible to students with limited internet access. He writes that both ventures “would not have happened without the experience TILE gave me.” He also writes that TILE alumni had that year been accepted to dozens of prestigious universities and earned over $1 million in scholarships, that many had started social ventures, small businesses and podcasts, and that Mohammed Al-Adlani used TILE “as a platform to escape severe conflicts”; he closes by thanking his parents and friends.⁠[3]

The Babson College article of April 2019 calls TILE the world’s largest conversation series, which had just announced its 400th chapter in its 49th country, with him serving on its board as President; the Austin Startups article of February 2020 says that TILE had more than 400 chapters in 49 countries and that he was still a board member and President. His ASU+GSV Summit and Forrester speaker biographies describe TILE.org as an entrepreneurship education nonprofit, the Forrester biography calling it one of the world’s largest.⁠[10][16][9][22]

His Forbes profile says that he is the son of Jewish refugees from Latvia and Ukraine and was obsessed with entrepreneurship as a boy; his author biography on The Learning Guild’s website likewise calls him the son of Jewish refugees from Latvia and Ukraine. Kveller’s 2017 article calls him a “Jewish Teen” in its headline.⁠[6][7][5]

In the Kveller article he names the rain as his favorite thing about Portland and says he is a huge fan of the film company A24. In the 2020 Austin Startups article he says that he admires Patrick CollisonPatrick CollisonPatrick Collison is an entrepreneur who grew up in Ireland. In 2010 he cofounded the payments and financial infrastructure company Stripe with his brother John Collison and serves as its chief executive; he is also a cofounder of the biomedical research organization Arc Institute and has been a director of Meta since 2025.Open the full entry, co-founder of Stripe, as a brilliant entrepreneur and for his work on Progress Studies; that the Malcolm Gladwell podcast episode “Carlos Doesn’t Remember,” which he first heard at 16, shaped his work on Arist and TILE; and that singing onstage with Nile Rodgers was a highlight of his life so far.⁠[5][16]

Arist: Official website: https://www.arist.com/ (opens in a new window).⁠[11]

Thiel Fellowship: Official website: https://thielfellowship.org/ (opens in a new window).⁠[23]

X: Public account: https://x.com/realioffe (opens in a new window).⁠[21]

LinkedIn: Public profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelaioffe/ (opens in a new window).⁠[21]