Mak Banjac
Sarajevo — entrepreneur, building with AI
He turns ideas into things — ventures and products, built with AI. An instinct he has run on since he was seventeen.
An entrepreneur who builds
Mak Banjac turns ideas into ventures and products, and uses generative AI as the leverage to build them faster than teams many times his size.
Building with AI
Uses today's generative models as a force multiplier — turning them into products and automated workflows that do real work.
Ideas into ventures
Spots an opportunity others have missed and assembles something real around it — funded, run, and shipped.
Idea to product, fast
Gets from a concept to something working quickly, while larger teams are still scheduling the kickoff.
Building what does not exist yet
Drawn to making genuinely new things rather than copying what already works — the Thiel idea, run as practice.
Ideas into things
The same habit runs through all of it. He notices value or potential that other people have passed over, then does the unglamorous work to make it real. It started with rescuing discarded hardware. It runs now on generative AI, where the gap between an idea and a working product is smaller than it has ever been.
A founder since seventeen
The instinct showed up in hardware first. At seventeen, Mak Banjac saw value in discarded MacBooks that everyone else had written off, and built a funded refurbishment venture around it under the roof of the Sarajevo company DISTI doo — then handed it off cleanly to pursue what came next.