He Buys Companies, Keeps Every Employee, Then Deploys Nobel-Nominated AI

Most founders think the endgame is IPO or bust. Todd Furniss built a company that offers a third door: sell to someone who keeps your entire team, hands leadership three to five year employment agreements, and then drops patented AI into your operations like a turbocharger into a truck that's been stuck in third gear for a decade.Todd is the CEO and co-founder of AI Squared, formally AIAI Holdings Corporation, publicly traded on the Nasdaq under the ticker AIAI since May 14, 2026. The model is deliciously simple to say and brutally hard to copy: buy real operating companies with real revenue and real EBITDA, retain the management teams, and deploy what Todd describes as Nobel-nominated Transformational AI to create new products, amplify earnings, and redefine what the business can become. No pilots. No rip and replace. No layoff bloodbath. Todd says nearly a billion dollars of EBITDA is sitting in the acquisition pipeline, and here's the kicker: AI Squared didn't cold-call a single one of those companies. They all came knocking.In this conversation, Todd pulls back the curtain on why he listed in Dallas instead of New York, why a direct public offering democratizes AI upside for retail investors, why the scariest businesses are the best businesses, and why 600 years of economic history says the AI jobs panic has it exactly backwards. He also explains how behavioral psychometrics turned a construction company's bid estimator into a weapon, and why he told his kids the liberal arts just became the most valuable degree on campus.https://aiaiholdings.comhttps://skullgames.orghttps://aiforfounders.cohttps://inboxalchemy.co