Illia Pashkov

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The twist: the LinkedIn account he used appears to belong to a real care-home director in England. Hijacked. The man probably doesn't even know his face is being used.

The bait: advisor role at a real AI project. The tell: invite from ritualhub[.]net instead of ritual.net. The trap: "can you share your screen?" The kill: "prove you're official, or we're done."

A scammer booked a live video call with me. Wrong move. I record everything.

Willow raised $7M to build the "Okta for AI agents." Talked with the founders. The detail that stuck: A Wix office manager who used to walk hundreds of meeting rooms every month to free the empty ones now runs one prompt through Claude. Done. She'll never write a line of config.

You can copy the hardware. You can't copy 18 months of getting shot at. Combat feedback is the product. Production is the moat. Everything else is vaporware.

Crypto was the testnet for autonomous finance — and wealth is next. Last week at The Wealth Week in Limassol I talked about the shift nobody's pricing in: AI isn't here to replace your advisor or run a fund by itself, it's here to watch everything.

I’m speaking at The Wealth Weeks Cyprus (June 9-10, Amathus Beach Hotel): 200+ delegates, 25+ speakers, the people who actually move private capital across borders. Asset managers, family offices, fintech founders, tax and trust lawyers, Web3 builders.