About me
Ian Haddad is a self-taught engineer and repeat founder currently studying at Virginia Tech on a full tuition scholarship as one of 35 students in the Calhoun Honors Discovery Program. He started early. At 12, he got hit by a minivan riding his bike home and used the $500 insurance payout to start reselling sneakers. By 14, he had done over $100K in revenue. He went on to build and sell sneaker bots, create a fully automated sports media platform, and help build Quikmint, a platform for purchasing NFTs via credit card with automatic smart contract delivery.
Now he's the Co-Founder, CEO, and CTO of P.S., an AI-powered greeting card company he describes as "Netflix for greeting cards." Ian built the entire platform himself: native iOS, Android, web, backend, AI, payments, and fulfillment. Customers can browse tens of thousands of designs or create a fully custom card from scratch in under 60 seconds, with AI generating the artwork, the message, and the back cover. No templates, no stock art. Every card is one-of-one. P.S. owns the full stack from generation to printing to fulfillment, with 83% gross margins and a path to 90%+ at scale. The company has sold thousands of cards to over 150 paying customers and holds a 5.0 rating on the App Store. Ian runs P.S. full-time alongside co-founder Halle Keefer and advisor Michael Rihani, who brings 15+ years of consumer tech leadership from Apple, Tesla, and Coinbase.
