Tor Parawell is a venture investor at FoundersX who leads FutureCircle, working with next-generation leaders in family businesses and helping them adopt GenAI, and he's also a private pilot with over 400 flight hours who built his own flight-planning tool and volunteers flying rescue animals for Pilots N Paws. Outside of investing, he builds his own software instead of just using off-the-shelf tools—running AI models on his own hardware and maintaining an old codebase just to tinker with it—and he's written about how AI's real value comes from finding solutions humans wouldn't normally think of, pointing to examples like energy, drug discovery, and chip design.