#1 — July 2026 What We Are Actually Building MAKO AI did not start with a pitch deck. It started with a pen pal letter in 2006. A 16-year-old boy in Nairobi named Meo wrote to my daughter as part of a school assignment. Twenty years later, that letter became a partnership — and that partnership became a company. Meo is now our Field Operations Director in Kenya. He teaches coding to students in Ruai, identifies the problems agents could actually solve there, and keeps a running list of ideas that only someone living locally…