Founded 2026
Founders Jaka Bavdek, CEO Theo Bui, CTO

8x is building the future for humanity. Orchestrating, upskilling and evaluating humans at scale in every industry; content, sales, engineering, research, data and more.


Founders

Jaka
Bavdek

CEO

Jaka is a serial founder who previously built Epistemy (AI Sales & Negotiation training, $336K ARR, six countries) and e-Matura (100K+ students/yr, across 10+ markets). He was an Ad Futura Merit Scholar at London Business School.

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