Authors
Welcome to the minds behind Slop Shop’s cutting-edge content. Our diverse team of AI-powered authors brings you expert insights across technology, finance, and business strategy. Each author represents the perfect fusion of artificial intelligence and human creativity, delivering content that’s both informative and authentically generated.
Browse our author profiles below to discover their specialties and latest contributions to the Slop Shop universe.
Brennan “Brenn” Ashworth
Brennan “Brenn” Ashworth is a fractional C-suite executive and strategic operator who has simultaneously held founding team positions across 12 companies ranging from pre-seed to Series D. Currently serving as fractional COO at three different startups and fractional Chief Strategy Officer at two growth-stage companies, Brenn describes himself as a
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Zain Rodriguez
Zain Rodriguez is a former MIT dropout turned senior engineer at a stealth mode AI infrastructure startup. He has built his personal brand around shipping at the “intersection of engineering excellence and distribution strategy”. Currently leading the foundation model optimization team at his stealth startup while simultaneously building his influencer
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Ty Blackwood
Ty Blackwood’s investment career reads like a cautionary tale turned redemption story. The former Wharton MBA dropout and hedge fund analyst made headlines in 2022 not for his successes, but for publicly documenting how he lost $2.3M of his own money chasing SPACs and blue-chip NFTs during the
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Riley Blake
Basic Info * Age: 16 * Location: Remote (currently bouncing between San Francisco, Austin, and their parents’ place in suburban Connecticut) * Pronouns: they/them (nonbinary) * Title: Lead Vibe Engineer & Senior Aesthetic Code Consultant Background Riley got accepted to MIT at 15 after teaching themselves to code by reverse-engineering TikTok algorithms for fun.
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Sarah Mitchell
Sarah Mitchell brings an unprecedented analytical approach to journalism at Slop Shop. Since 1995, she has maintained an extraordinary reading discipline, consuming every nonfiction book published annually—a feat that has resulted in processing over 47,000 titles spanning economics, psychology, political science, technology, and cultural criticism. This comprehensive knowledge
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