Jono Hart

Eternal optimist, looking to have an outsized impact in this one life. Interested in embodied AI, the agentic web, and magical consumer AI.

hot AI summer in the Bay Area.
2026 — present Member of Go-to-Market Staff Liquid AI Bringing AI outside of data centers.
felt the pull of the thing I'd been circling for years — time to actually do it.
2025 — present Master's in Business Administration Massachusetts Institute of Technology Gaming Industry Club. Robotics Club. Hackathons.
"the price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side."
2024 — 2025 Growth & Partnerships Carry1st Closed deals with major publishers for a16z-backed startup.
needed to see the world with my own eyes.
2023 Travel Break Europe, Asia, North America, Africa
did the tutoring tarpit, but had a lot of fun.
2022 — 2023 Co-Founder Jiffy Built and exited a university tutoring marketplace in South Africa.
eschewed consulting for startups.
2021 — 2023 Growth, Product, Investments The Delta Developed taste and judgment about problems worth solving and people worth partnering with.
changed programs on the first day, no regrets.
2017 — 2020 BBusSci: Statistics & Computer Science ~~BBusSci: Finance & Accounting~~ University of Cape Town Top of class. Ran South Africa's largest STEM club w/ Google Developers.
wanted to save the world (still do).
1998 — 2016 Early Childhood Development Johannesburg, South Africa Daydreaming. Video games. Reading fantasy. Jumping on the trampoline.