Your Invention Is Your Moat, featuring Katheryn Thayer-Rubery of Radical AI

May 12, 2026

Your Invention Is Your Moat, featuring Katheryn Thayer-Rubery of Radical AI

May 12, 2026

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Your Invention Is Your Moat, featuring Katheryn Thayer-Rubery of Radical AI

Presented by Surface AI

"How do you find customers for concepts that never before existed?"

In our next installment of the popular speaker series “Distribution Is Your Moat” we’re inviting Katheryn Thayer-Rubery of Radical AI to join us for donuts and coffee.

Distribution is Your Moat · Marketing for Startups

"Your Invention Is Your Moat"


May 28 · 9:30 am
Betaworks · 29 Little West 12th St
Katheryn Thayer-Rubery — Radical AI
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We’ve talked about Mission and Network, and now it’s time to talk about Invention. Radical AI is a new company focused on the discovery of new materials for industry. What this means in practice is using AI to perform chemistry in order to discover things like what the Air Force can use to build airplanes that don’t disintegrate under the extreme conditions of hypersonic flight.

Obviously Radical’s distribution story is a little different from that of a B2B SaaS startup. But it’s useful to understand: what does it mean to tell the story of an idea that is completely new to the world? How do you find customers for concepts that never before existed? And how do you create – and broadcast to – an audience that may or may not completely understand the magic behind what you do?

That’s why I’m so excited to talk to Kathryn on May 28 at Betaworks.

Join us for donuts and coffee as we dive into these topics and more!

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