Manifesto · v2.3Signed · Mandel, CEO

Tech media sucks.
So we're here to fix it.

Tech media sucks.

Not because there isn't enough of it — there's too much. It sucks because almost none of it looks like the thing it's covering. Silicon Valley is where the future gets built. The people building it sit in buildings no camera crew ever walks into.

Founders are the reference. They're the ones pushing the boundary of what's possible — the rocket that lands itself, the model that thinks, the chip that breaks the wall. They work harder than almost anyone. They bet more than almost anyone. And the world barely knows their names.

The internet has plenty of icons. We love them, we follow them, we build feeds around them. Somewhere between the clip and the algorithm, the people actually shipping the future got left out of the picture. The next generation deserves to see them too.

Founder Cut Studios is here to fix that.

We're going to understand the story behind — the 3 a.m. debug, the Wednesday the chip finally booted, the Saturday the cofounder almost walked. We're going to film those. We're going to edit them like a championship documentary. We're going to make founders the reference they should already be.

Because the education of the next generation starts with the media. If the kid in the dorm room sees the builder on the screen, she picks up a compiler. If the high-schooler sees the founder on the feed, she sets her sights past the algorithm — toward something worth giving her years to.

We're here to conquer the stars. We're starting with the camera.

So we're here to fix it.

Mandel, reviewing footage.
— Mandel
Founder & CEO · Founder Cut Studios
San Francisco · 2026
Mandel — founder & CEO of Founder Cut Studios — with Stephen Curry.

Mandel · Curry Camp · NBA

The director

Meet Mandel.

Born in New York City. Raised in Maryland. Fell into filmmaking the moment he understood it lets you create more than you consume — turning thoughts, environments, and raw moments into something that holds.

Daily discipline is the rule, not the exception. Six miles. Lifting. Meditation. The same mentality he points the camera with — patient, obsessive, unhurried. It carries into every frame, every cut, every conversation with a subject.

For the past three years, he's worked with Stephen Curry — capturing moments and building a relationship with a world- class operator. The mentality has rubbed off, to say the least. Now he's bringing the same bar to the people building what's next out of San Francisco.

Role
Founder & CEO
Based
San Francisco
Prior work
NBA · NFL · MLB · NCAA