Shai Magzimof

4x founder. Started at sixteen in Israel, entered Y Combinator at eighteen. Built Nextpeer (acquired by Viber) and Phantom Auto, a human-in-the-loop teleoperation platform that served Amazon, Walmart, and FedEx, was named a TIME Best Invention, produced 20+ US patents, and was named Forbes 30 Under 30 in the US and Israel. Now co-founding Magn, AI compute infrastructure in Israel, and mixus, trusted AI agents for high-stakes work. Writing about technology, the merge between humans and machines, and ancient wisdom.

Writing

• They're Made Out of Compute
  June 2026 · On orbital data centers and the security no one is building yet.
• We're Not Being Replaced. We're Merging.
  February 2026 · The merge between humans and machines is already here, and it is accelerating.