Hi, I'm Patrick - a Forbes 30 Under 30 Seattle-based AI startup Founder / CTO, and AI Engineer. I'm currently building Snapbar, and previously Co-Founded DubHacks, the PNW's largest Hackathon. Prior that I helped scale VC-backed tech startups in San Francisco and Seattle, after attending the University of Washington.

I'm passionate about sharing my learnings, as I scale Snapbar, deep dive into all things AI (CodeGen, Cursor, Windsurf, Claude Code, Bolt, ChatGPT, Flux, Stable Diffusion, etc), and build the future of AI-powered startups. I'm obsessed with the idea of the sub-20 person heavily AI leveraged unicorn startup.


Patrick Ellis

Just hit 10K subscribers!! 🎉 Thank you SO much to everyone who's subscribed, and/or left a comment - it means a ton! 🙏🙏

I'd love to hear from you (in a comment below): What content would you most like to see from me? What specific tutorials, workflow overviews, or style of videos?

My current vision for the channel is to help software engineers, startup founders, and other builders/creators become AI-native. Sharing the most valuable workflows I'm finding as we scale our AI startup.
- building better end results, much more quickly (e.g. Claude Code workflows)
- with more creativity (e.g. using Gemini Deep Research + Deep Think to hone in strategy)
- and other powerful workflows, mixing in some anecdotes/learnings from the projects I'm building

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