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Joel Hansen
July 21, 2026

Happy Tuesday fam,

Wanna nerd out on Claude and AI workflows? Sign up for this Vancouver event I’m hosting with a few pals at North House tomorrow. First coffee’s on me.

Welcome back to Stay Curious — a newsletter I write once per week on 3 things keeping me curious, or I send one of you a 100 dolla bill for catching me if I skip.

Here’s what’s on my mind this week:

1. Learning From Kaito and Anj

My friend Kaito Cunningham was the Founder/CEO of a startup called Utopia Labs which raised $25M from Paradigm/Circle/Kindred Ventures to build stablecoin payment solutions before being acquired by Coinbase.

Now he works on payments at Coinbase. He’s also a former SFU dropout and League of Innovators Accelerator alumni.

My friend Anjali Dhaliwal is Founder of Gelee.ai, a 2026 BC Business Women of the Year. and she’s building the #1 LinkedIn Growth Agent for founders and GTM teams.

Before that she built and exited a vc-backed tech company at a $30M valuation in under a year at 21 years old.

Both of them are gonna be chatting about AI and what they’re learning tomorrow at 3pm. Join if you can.

My pal Jake is a legend and a half.

He’s so good at running, he hustled 180KM of running in 48 hours to win free tacos from Tacofino for the year.

He’s building Arrow Supplements (my go-to magnesium brand) to bring transparency to supplements.

My favourite part about Jake is his humility. He’s done all these cool things but it’s not until you’re on a 10km run chatting life with him that you can really dig it out of him.

3. Hot Take of the Week

Cold message more incredible humans. You’re not doing that enough. Try it. It may just change your life or career.

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Joel

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