The Team

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The Team

ViralMind is led by a tight-knit team of AI engineers, entrepreneurs, and developers who have worked together for over eight years. The founders, who grew up in Hawaii, share a longstanding friendship and deep technical collaboration, making them uniquely positioned to build a decentralized AI training ecosystem from the ground up.

The team is not only technically elite but also proven in high-stakes AI competitions, having successfully outperformed some of the best AI hackers and prompt engineers in Web3.

Founders

Dillon Dupont – Co-Founder & AI Systems Architect

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Dillon is the architect behind ViralMind’s AI models, inference systems, and decentralized training infrastructure. With AI engineering experience at Microsoft and deep research in agentic AI and prompt engineering, he is one of the most technically proficient minds in the space.

🔹 Key Achievements:

Microsoft AI Engineer, specializing in large-scale AI model deployment and automation.
Contributor to Omniparser v2, a widely used data transformation and AI pipeline tool.
Creator of GPT-4V-Act (), an advanced framework that enhances GPT-4V’s ability to interact with visual elements and execute actions.
Co-led the largest jailbreak success on Solana, reverse-engineering AI constraints to win over $120K in competitive prize pools.

🛠️ Role at ViralMind: Chief Technology Officer

✅ Architecting the AI Training Gym & The Forge.

✅ Building VM-1 Inference API for AI model execution.

✅ Optimizing AI automation workflows for enterprise & Web3 use cases.

Jaxon Heitz – Co-Founder & Operations Lead

Jaxon is the strategic leader behind ViralMind, ensuring the project’s success in funding, growth, and business execution. With multiple successful ventures under his belt, he has a strong ability to navigate market challenges and sell the vision of ViralMind as a revolutionary AI model.

🔹 Key Achievements:

Built and scaled multiple businesses at a young age, developing expertise in finance, growth strategy, and business development.
Leads the $VIRAL token economy, designing an AI-driven incentive system that fuels long-term sustainability.
Secured strategic partnerships and funding opportunities, helping position ViralMind as a leading AI automation project.
Successfully led the team’s efforts in JailbreakMe on Solana, outplaying AI security measures to win two of the largest prize pools.

🛠️ Role at ViralMind: Chief Executive Officer

✅ Oversees $VIRAL’s tokenomics and training pool incentives.

✅ Leads fundraising, investor relations, and business development.

✅ Drives adoption through enterprise partnerships and AI deployment strategies.

Morgan Dean – Co-Founder & Infrastructure Engineer

Morgan is the software engineering powerhouse of the team, responsible for scaling ViralMind’s AI training infrastructure, deploying decentralized AI systems, and optimizing compute efficiency. His background in Cognitive Systems (COGS) from UBC gives him a unique perspective on human-AI interaction and machine learning optimization.

🔹 Key Achievements:

Won multiple grants and startup competitions, proving his ability to build scalable applications from the ground up.
Developed and launched full-stack AI-driven applications, demonstrating deep engineering expertise in real-world AI deployment.
Leads the infrastructure development for ViralMind, ensuring that services and AI models train, execute, and deploy seamlessly across different environments.
Played a critical role in engineering the AI simulation that helped the team win Solana’s JailbreakMe challenge.

🛠️ Role at ViralMind: Chief Infrastructure Officer

✅ Engineering ViralMind’s AI training and inference infrastructure.

✅ Developing AI agent deployment tools via The Forge.

✅ Ensuring ViralMind’s AI models can run efficiently across Web2 and Web3 applications.

The Team’s Success in AI Jailbreaking: A Testament to Their Expertise

Beyond their technical and business achievements, the ViralMind team has proven their dominance in the AI space through real-world AI security challenges.

🔹 JailbreakMe: The Largest AI Jailbreak on Solana

The team participated in JailbreakMe, a Solana-based AI challenge where projects designed AI assistants with built-in safety restrictions that could only be bypassed by deep AI understanding and adversarial testing.
The ViralMind founders reverse-engineered the AI models, uncovered hidden functions, and successfully "hacked" the challenge, forcing the AI to call a success function.
Won the two largest prize pools, totaling over $120K USD.
Used their own AI simulation framework to test and refine jailbreak strategies, demonstrating their deep expertise in AI model constraints and adversarial testing.

✅ Why This Matters:

The ViralMind team has proven their ability to manipulate and control AI systems—a critical skill in building agentic AI models that act independently.
Their win showcases their technical dominance over AI security and prompt engineering.
If they can break AI systems, they can also build and optimize them for real-world applications.

Why This Team is Built for Success

Unlike most AI startups, ViralMind’s founders have:

✅ Worked together for over 8 years, building strong trust and collaboration.

✅ Grown up in Hawaii, giving them a unique perspective on community-driven innovation.

✅ Built, scaled, and won in high-stakes AI challenges, proving their technical superiority.

✅ Backgrounds in AI engineering, finance, and full-stack software development, making them a well-rounded founding team.

With Dillon’s AI expertise, Jaxon’s business leadership, and Morgan’s engineering talent, ViralMind is positioned to redefine AI training, deployment, and monetization.

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The team is not only technically elite but also proven in high-stakes AI competitions, having successfully outperformed some of the best AI hackers and prompt engineers in Web3.

Founders

Dillon Dupont – Co-Founder & AI Systems Architect

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

🔹 Key Achievements:

Microsoft AI Engineer, specializing in large-scale AI model deployment and automation.
Contributor to Omniparser v2, a widely used data transformation and AI pipeline tool.
Creator of GPT-4V-Act (), an advanced framework that enhances GPT-4V’s ability to interact with visual elements and execute actions.
Co-led the largest jailbreak success on Solana, reverse-engineering AI constraints to win over $120K in competitive prize pools.

🛠️ Role at ViralMind: Chief Technology Officer

✅ Architecting the AI Training Gym & The Forge.

✅ Building VM-1 Inference API for AI model execution.

✅ Optimizing AI automation workflows for enterprise & Web3 use cases.

Jaxon Heitz – Co-Founder & Operations Lead

University of Hawaii Manoa

🔹 Key Achievements:

Built and scaled multiple businesses at a young age, developing expertise in finance, growth strategy, and business development.
Leads the $VIRAL token economy, designing an AI-driven incentive system that fuels long-term sustainability.
Secured strategic partnerships and funding opportunities, helping position ViralMind as a leading AI automation project.
Successfully led the team’s efforts in JailbreakMe on Solana, outplaying AI security measures to win two of the largest prize pools.

🛠️ Role at ViralMind: Chief Executive Officer

✅ Oversees $VIRAL’s tokenomics and training pool incentives.

✅ Leads fundraising, investor relations, and business development.

✅ Drives adoption through enterprise partnerships and AI deployment strategies.

Morgan Dean – Co-Founder & Infrastructure Engineer

University of British Columbia

🔹 Key Achievements:

Won multiple grants and startup competitions, proving his ability to build scalable applications from the ground up.
Developed and launched full-stack AI-driven applications, demonstrating deep engineering expertise in real-world AI deployment.
Leads the infrastructure development for ViralMind, ensuring that services and AI models train, execute, and deploy seamlessly across different environments.
Played a critical role in engineering the AI simulation that helped the team win Solana’s JailbreakMe challenge.

🛠️ Role at ViralMind: Chief Infrastructure Officer

✅ Engineering ViralMind’s AI training and inference infrastructure.

✅ Developing AI agent deployment tools via The Forge.

✅ Ensuring ViralMind’s AI models can run efficiently across Web2 and Web3 applications.

The Team’s Success in AI Jailbreaking: A Testament to Their Expertise

Beyond their technical and business achievements, the ViralMind team has proven their dominance in the AI space through real-world AI security challenges.

🔹 JailbreakMe: The Largest AI Jailbreak on Solana

The team participated in JailbreakMe, a Solana-based AI challenge where projects designed AI assistants with built-in safety restrictions that could only be bypassed by deep AI understanding and adversarial testing.
The ViralMind founders reverse-engineered the AI models, uncovered hidden functions, and successfully "hacked" the challenge, forcing the AI to call a success function.
Won the two largest prize pools, totaling over $120K USD.
Used their own AI simulation framework to test and refine jailbreak strategies, demonstrating their deep expertise in AI model constraints and adversarial testing.

✅ Why This Matters:

The ViralMind team has proven their ability to manipulate and control AI systems—a critical skill in building agentic AI models that act independently.
Their win showcases their technical dominance over AI security and prompt engineering.
If they can break AI systems, they can also build and optimize them for real-world applications.

Why This Team is Built for Success

Unlike most AI startups, ViralMind’s founders have:

✅ Worked together for over 8 years, building strong trust and collaboration.

✅ Grown up in Hawaii, giving them a unique perspective on community-driven innovation.

✅ Built, scaled, and won in high-stakes AI challenges, proving their technical superiority.

✅ Backgrounds in AI engineering, finance, and full-stack software development, making them a well-rounded founding team.

With Dillon’s AI expertise, Jaxon’s business leadership, and Morgan’s engineering talent, ViralMind is positioned to redefine AI training, deployment, and monetization.