Andrew Pignanelli is Co-Founder and CEO of The General Intelligence Company of New York, building the infrastructure to enable the one-person billion-dollar company through fully autonomous AI agent platforms.

Andrew dropped out of the University of Utah at 18 to pursue startups, going on to found Velvet, an AI operating system for VC funds, and Decheque Securities, making him the youngest person ever to own a broker-dealer company.

Andrew has been featured as a Utah Business '20 in their 20s,' delivered lectures at the University of Utah, and participated in panels on the future of banking, VC, and AI in private finance.

At Velvet, Andrew grew the team to 15 people and served over 200 VC funds globally; at Decheque Securities, he facilitated over $70M in private secondary transactions for companies like SpaceX, Anthropic, and Coreweave.

The General Intelligence Company has raised over $10M in under 12 months, with its Cofounder platform automating over 59,000 tasks and processing more than 18 billion tokens per month.