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Julian Sorensen
The “ethical-AI” founder

Julian Sorensen

Fernand — the front-man
Age41
HometownPalo Alto — he’ll tell you it was humble. It wasn’t.

Camera-perfect, TED-warm sincerity a half-beat too polished; the most decent man in every room he’s bought.

I’m one of the good ones. Ask anyone — they’ll tell you.

The story so far

He took the credit, the company, and Nadia — and he did all of it while looking like the last honest person in tech. Now he’s a celebrated ‘ethical-AI’ founder who performs conscience better than the people who actually have one.

He built his fame on counterfeits: borrowed genius, borrowed love, a borrowed life. He has never once had to be the real thing, and it shows only to the two people who knew the man he replaced.

Carries
A vintage Omega he introduces as ‘my grandfather’s’
It wasn’t his grandfather’s. Every prop in his life is borrowed from a better man.
Tell — Pauses like he’s genuinely moved, right before he delivers the line he rehearsed.
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