John Roa is a lifelong entrepreneur, technologist, philanthropist, business investor, and writer. He has founded and managed seven technology companies since learning to program as a teenager. His largest company, ÄKTA, went on to be one of the fastest growing companies in America in both 2013 and 2014, and was acquired by Salesforce Inc. in September 2015. He was most recently the CEO of AnthologyAI, a consumer artificial intelligence company in New York City. He is an expert on agentic AI and recently published his capstone essay, The Last Interface.