This week on Human Unicorns, Nihal sits down with Brian Distelburger, one of the OGs of New York tech and the co-founder of Yext, the company that took an unsexy problem — digital information chaos — and turned it into a billion-dollar category.

Brian isn’t just a founder; he’s a repeat builder with real operator scars. He helped scale Yext from a scrappy NYC startup into a publicly traded global platform powering the world’s biggest brands. Enterprise sales before you have a category name? He’s lived it. Hypergrowth hiring? Done it. Taking a company public while keeping the culture intact? Survived it.

Now Brian brings that same energy forward as an investor, advisor, and ecosystem multiplier — helping founders navigate the messy middle, build real revenue engines, and avoid ...