Ciao. I am 21, and based in San Francisco. I grew up in Italy and lived in Sicily, Milan, Berlin, Paris and San Francisco.

Email: manfredi.bernardi3108@gmail.com · LinkedIn

Timeline of my life:

• 14-18 yrs old:
  • when I was 14, I started playing Fortnite Fortnite as a professional eSports player under the in game name of "Fredy"
  • I played for global esports teams (HMBLE, iDomina, Outplayed), won $50k+ in tournaments prize pools (at 15), and at the peak of my career was ranked top 100 Fortnite players worldwide (out of 100M+ players)
    • a bit nostalgic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYtFqQnKrLg (lots of people ask me what fortnite competitive looks like. here it is); https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTwIBxuhlHA (i was so cracked)
  • I also streamed on Twitch the whole journey and built a Twitch channel to 30k+ people and Twitch Partner (https://www.twitch.tv/fredybtw)
• 18-19 yrs old:
  • wanted to make money, so I started publishing books on Amazon. I ended up building a book publishing company to $120k in revenue, 30 books, 5 employees (3 writers 2 designers) and 300M views on tiktok/ig reels (learnt distribution)
• 19-21yrs old:
  • did YCW24 with Diligent as first employee
  • worked with Jean-Charles Samuelian-Werve (Co-Founder at Alan and Mistral AI)
  • briefly did research at Stanford in the VCI lab under Ilya Strebulaev's group
  • worked for 6 months as a software engineer in a small team based in Paris building an AI medical assistant (what ChatGPT health just launched in January 2026), but actually integrated into the healthcare system, with conversations reviewed by real doctors, and able to redirect and book appointments (if interested: https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.12808)