When a 20-year-old who worked at NASA, the Pentagon, and the CIA meets a 22-year-old who directed documentaries in Congo jungles, at the literal peak of Yosemite, something unusual happens.

They realize they're building the exact same product.

In EO Magazine's latest feature from our new "Inside Hacker Houses" series, we follow Nadav Shanun and Pablo Berlanga Boemare as they work from The Residency, a San Francisco hacker house backed by Sam Altman, on Geome—an AI that learns how humans work by analyzing their screens.

Their vision? Capture all the data on Earth to accelerate AGI.

Read the full story for insights on: - How two young founders from radically different worlds ended up solving the same problem - What actually happens inside SF's hacker houses now - Why they believe the path to AGI starts with computer screens, not cameras in nature - How they went from 0 to 50 customers through relentless customer conversations

This is where startup culture is most alive: not on main stages, but in small rooms where founders say impossible things with straight faces.

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