🔥 What’s hot in Houston’s innovation scene this week?

4/13/26 - 4/19/26

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Oleg Lysiak
April 12, 2026

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Hey all,

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Big shoutout to my friend Giorgio — serial entrepreneur, ecosystem builder, and one of those rare people who actually builds the thing instead of just talking about it.

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Cheers,
- oleg 👊

P.S. Know a Texas company doing something insane? hit reply.
Got a founder friend who needs to hear this? forward them this email. let's raise Houston's tech game together.

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