Building with AI: Morgan Linton on Startups, Agents, and Life Beyond Silicon Valley
Elon Musk reposts him. Sam Altman takes selfies with him. I interview him...
On June 4 at 4:15 PM, I’m hosting a live online American Dream Factory Q&A with Morgan Linton, Founder and CTO of Bold Metrics, early Sonos team member, digital twin pioneer, investor, and one of the most interesting AI builders to follow on X right now.
Morgan is not just talking about AI. He is using it. Hard.
He runs overnight agent builds. He tests Grok, Codex, Cursor, Windsurf, Antigravity, and the newest frontier tools. He posts the wins, the failures, the screenshots, the workflows, and the strange new reality of a founder/CTO learning how to move at machine speed.
That balance is what makes this conversation fascinating.
Morgan sits at the intersection of frontier technology and grounded living. He knows what it means to build real products, from the early days at Sonos to co-founding Bold Metrics. He is deep in AI agents, digital twins, APIs, engineering workflows, and small-team leverage. But he is also someone who has chosen mountains, family, nature, and a life outside the pure Silicon Valley grind.
We’re going to get practical:
What hardware does he actually use?
Which AI agents are worth using right now?
How does he run overnight builds?
What APIs, models, and workflows power his stack?
How does he compare Grok, OpenAI, Anthropic, Cursor, and the rest?
What is hype, what is real, and what should founders start using immediately?
How can ambitious builders use AI without losing their soul?
This is a conversation about AI, entrepreneurship, agents, digital twins, work, balance, and the next version of the American Dream.
Live online Q&A
June 4
4:15 PM
For founders, students, engineers, operators, investors, and anyone trying to understand how serious builders are using AI right now.