Beau Lewis

Beau
Lewis

Entrepreneur, writer, and producer — working to connect humans and tech.

I've spent twenty years figuring out why some ideas spread and others don't — at GoldieBlox, at Rhyme Combinator, on a Broadway-bound musical, and now in the room with the people building AI.

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Portrait of Beau Lewis

I started in viral media to discover what makes strangers care at scale.

I co-founded a toy company because I wanted to change what a million girls believed about themselves. I co-wrote a hip-hop musical because I wanted to put Oakland on stage in a story Silicon Valley wasn't telling. Different surfaces. Same question:

how does technology become a story that brings people together?

That question is now the most important one in AI. The capability is real. What's missing — what's almost always missing — is the human part. That's the work I'm doing now.

What I'm
working
on

Beau Lewis portrait

Co-Founders the Musical →

Co-writer and producer of the hip-hop musical that sold out its world premiere at A.C.T. in 2025. The story of an Oakland coder who creates an AI avatar to reconnect with her dad. Headed to Broadway.

All People Powered →

An accelerator like no other — a live concert and pitch competition bringing funding to first-time founders on stage. Backed by Hewlett, Kapor, Doris Duke, and Omidyar — funders aligned on responsible AI.

AI Rap Debates →

A series of viral animated clips expanding the most pressing conversations around AI and humanity. How will AI impact our jobs? Does it belong in art? And will it ultimately save or destroy us? Backed by Reid Hoffman.

Writing on AI →

Dispatches from inside the AI moment, for people who care more about the implications than the demos. New essays on Substack.

Background

Three companies.
One Emmy.
250M+ views online.
A Super Bowl ad I didn't pay for.
Apps and toys named “of the year”.

But what I care most about is the company I keep: I've been lucky to work with Reid Hoffman, Mark Rober, Anthony Veneziale, and a small group of people who are trying to make sure the next decade of technology is built for humans, not at them.

I love my kids and my friends, music, the Seahawks, chess, skiing, and freestyle rapping. My wife and my sister, who are my heroes. Acai bowls that have too many ingredients to put a lid on.

Built or co-founded

  • GoldieBlox
  • Rhyme Combinator
  • Seedwell

Featured in

  • The New York Times
  • The Atlantic
  • Fortune
  • Good Morning America
  • TechCrunch
  • Stanford Magazine
  • American Theatre

Education

  • Stanford, BS Engineering
  • Oxford, International Relations

What I'm
looking for

I'm in an open chapter. Co-Founders is on its path to Broadway. All People Powered is becoming a movement. And I'm spending more and more of my time on the question that connects all of it: how do we make AI a thing that brings people together rather than pushes them apart?

If you're working on that — at a company, on a project, in a room I should be in — I'd like to hear from you.

Miles and Tony Robbins