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Australia shocked Turkey 2-0 as heavy underdogs. Korea beat Czechia 2-1. Iran held NZ 2-2. And in their World Cup debut, Cape Verde shut out Spain 0-0, a team favored at -1200. Our three founders-to-watch, courtesy of Harmonic, come from underdog countries that have defied many a bracket this past week: 🇦🇺 Andrew Feutrill - prev. Head of Science @ Amazon, generating $550M+ in annualized revenue. Director of Science @ Darwinium (backed by Blackbird, Airtree, Naval Ravikant). Principal Research Scientist @ CSIRO's Data61, winning ~$2M in cybersecurity grants. PhD in Applied Mathematics, University of Adelaide. 🇮🇷 Cyrus Safaie - prev. Director of Engineering & AI/ML @ DoorDash (companywide AI lead). Head of ML, Data Science & Economics @ Convoy, leading ~50 across ML, OR, and Economics (backed by Bezos, Benioff, Greylock, Sequoia). University of Tehran BS → UChicago MS in ML. 🇰🇷 Minyong Cho - prev. Senior ML Engineer @ Deeping Source (backed by Samsung Ventures, Global Brain). Published at NeurIPS ("Knowledge Extraction with No Observable Data"). Co-inventor on a granted US & Korea patent for cross-camera identity matching without facial recognition. Seoul National University MS, CS. ROK Army artillery officer. Massive congrats to these founders and their countries. Represent yours by submitting your startup - link in our bio 💅 #worldcup #stealth #preseed #founder