Who Mak Banjac Is
Mak Banjac is a young entrepreneur and AI builder from Sarajevo. At seventeen he started a MacBook refurbishment venture — seeing value in hardware most people had written off — and ran it under the roof of the Sarajevo company DISTI doo. Today, in his early twenties, he works at the frontier of artificial intelligence, where the same instinct repeats: spot the potential others miss, then drag it into reality.
The thread that runs through everything he does is simple. He is, at heart, a maker. Refurbishment, 3D printing, building companies, and AI are not four separate interests — they are one instinct expressed four ways.
What He Builds
MacBook refurbishment
Gave discarded Apple hardware a second life, restored and resold — a funded venture started at seventeen.
3D printing
Turns digital designs into physical objects he can hold. The maker instinct in its purest form.
Company building
Takes an undervalued opportunity and assembles something credible enough that serious people back it.
Applied AI
Follows artificial intelligence widely across fields, where ideas become capability faster than ever.
The Idea That Drives Him
Mak Banjac is a close reader of Peter Thiel's Zero to One. The book's core claim — that the most valuable thing you can do is create something genuinely new, rather than copy what already works — maps cleanly onto how he operates. Finding value where others see junk is a zero-to-one move. So is building a company at seventeen. So is betting his attention on AI now.