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 the expensive mistakes he already paid the tuition for.

He’s one of the rare people who built and scaled a unicorn from zero to NYSE, all while staying relentlessly curious, humble, and addicted to the craft of building.

If you want a masterclass in resilience, enterprise GTM, founder psychology, and how to create a new category out of thin air — Brian is the definition of a Human Unicorn.