Meet Brendan Michaelsen | Co-founder & CTO of Our Wave

In the fall of 2018, I sat down with my friend and colleague Kyle Linton to chat. We had been working together for several years on an AI-powered smoking cessation startup, and so spent the first part of the meeting discussing the next steps in our launch plan. Soon, though, our conversation turned to a radically different topic altogether: sexual violence. A close mutual friend of ours had had a traumatic experience a few weeks before, and we were still desperate to find ways to support them.