Hailing from Evanston, IL, Cory Warfield began testing software in the mid-90s at Rand McNally while touring as a frontman of his band, and simultaneously building early websites and forums for the online hip-hop community.
Cory then moved into a formative careeer and industry, serving tables and bartending in restaurants where he also several times was promoted to unit and corpate management, although he always ended up back in the capacity of serving, speaking, adding value and creating memories.
After nearly fifteen years in “the industry”, Cory want on to found a technology company to solve the unpredictable nature of scheduling in restaurants, hotels, etc and founder a B2B SaaS company using ML to solve it. After bootstrapping to market, raising capital, and ultimately being replaced as CEO by the board of his first company, Cory has gone to cofound various other companies in the tech, AR/VR, web3, AI and music spaces.
Recognized as a “Top Voice” on Linked where he has 530K+ followers and the fastest growing AI newsletter, Tech For Good, Cory is an EIR, advisor; fractional growth hacker and optimistic futurist.