2025-11-04 Small Business Daily

Welcome to Silk Logic’s Small Business Daily Podcast! It's Monday, November third, and today we’ll dive into how small business founders are using AI to wow customers and win millions in funding. Plus, two teen entrepreneurs who dropped out of school for their AI startup just closed a three-million dollar deal—more on that in a moment! Let’s kick off with a story that’s inspiring the next generation of business owners. Two Gen Z founders, just nineteen and twenty-three, raised one point two five million dollars for their AI-powered desktop assistant startup, Attention Engineering. Investors? Heavyweights from Google DeepMind and Village Global. The hook? They moved to San Francisco, plugged into the Bay Area’s thriving AI community, and focused on high trust, networking, and momentum. The lesson? If you show rapid progress—and reach out to the right people—funding can follow, even before your product is perfect. Switching gears to healthcare, another pair of teen founders—aged just n