David Naffis

David Naffis

Entrepreneur & Technologist at the Intersection of AI and Media

I’m the Co-Founder & CEO of Adwave, an AI-driven platform making TV advertising accessible to small businesses. Adwave is also home to Waverunner (multichannel performance advertising) and Wavemaker (AI video generation).

Alongside Adwave, I’m building a handful of other ventures under Improbable Ventures: Vidiyo (cable TV democratized; a FAST platform where anyone can run their own free, always-on channel), Splatchat (video chat with AI characters), and Gatherd (AI-powered party invitations that arrive as text messages).

I have a track record of building successful ventures – previously co-founded VideoByte (CTV adtech startup, acquired by Kargo in 2023), Remixd (AI audio platform, acquired by Global UK in 2021), and Intridea (technology consultancy, acquired by Mobomo in 2015). I also served as a Presidential Innovation Fellow in the Obama White House in 2014.

I love turning bold ideas into real products that solve tangible problems. Beyond work, I like to make stuff (woodworking, cnc, 3D printing, electronics, software) and occasionally write about technology and entrepreneurship.

I’m also available for a limited amount of outside work: advising on AI, and building products end to end, solo, in weeks. If you have an idea and want it built, see how to work with me.


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  • Would We Recognize It Arriving?

    We only named the last emergence after it had already happened. If intelligence keeps arriving from networks we didn't design and can't inspect, th...

  • Wavemaker

    AI video generation from a URL, topic, or prompt. An Adwave product, live at wavemaker.io.

  • The Last Human Job Is Judgment

    When the making gets cheap, the deciding is what's left. The same mechanism keeps showing up in code, capital, media, and intelligence itself.