Oliver Straus

Built and managed
multi-million dollar businesses.
Before he could drive.

Founder  ·  16 years old  ·  Denver, CO
CFO at 14Fine Art·
Defense EngineerUAV Systems·
AI Builder10+ Products·
ProducerIMDb nm8461530
0+
Nonprofits funded
0+
Software products built
0
Age appointed CFO
UAV
Defense systems

FOUNDER

before a driver's license.

Experience

Appointed Chief Financial Officer of Topher Straus Fine Art at fourteen — one of the youngest CFOs of a multi-million dollar company in United States history. For three years he ran financial planning, budgeting, P&L reporting, and accounts payable and receivable for a fine art business generating multi-million dollars annually.

His financial models guided pricing, collection valuations, and negotiations with high-net-worth collectors and institutional buyers. He didn’t inherit the role. He ran it.

2020–2023Tenure
HNWCollector base
14Age at appointment

$250K

given, not kept.

Philanthropy

As Philanthropy Director at Topher Straus Fine Art, Oliver directed a quarter-million dollars to more than fifteen nonprofit organizations in arts, education, and community development — across Colorado and nationally.

The program ran for three years on deliberate, relationship-based giving rather than one-time checks. He also volunteers operations support with B Golden Food Bank across the Denver metro.

Giving is part of the model, not an afterthought.

15+Nonprofit partners
3 yrsProgram tenure
100%Relationship-based

BUILDER

of software that runs itself.

Defense & Software

In 2025, contracted as a software engineer for a confidential defense-technology company building autonomous systems. He contributed to a drone-based aerial mapping and reconnaissance platform processing real-time sensor feeds, spatial telemetry, and autonomous flight-path data — and developed components of a UAV mission-planning pipeline alongside senior engineers, under NDA and security protocols.

01
ApexAI life coaching desktop platform combining behavioral psychology with Claude. Conversational coaching, habit tracking, intelligent journaling — designed and shipped entirely solo.
02
AdaAn AI agent with full autonomous computer control. Interacts with any application, executes workflows, manages files, and operates the desktop without human input.
03
Enterprise Acquisition PlatformFully automated business development pipeline. AI voice agents call leads, qualify them, and collect payment — end to end, with minimal human oversight.
04
Command CenterDeveloper intelligence dashboard for managing AI sessions, tools, and workflows with real-time monitoring.
About

Oliver Straus is a 16-year-old founder, operator, and software engineer based in Denver, Colorado. Appointed CFO of a multi-million dollar fine art business at fourteen, he directed $250,000+ to more than fifteen nonprofits, shipped production software for defense UAV systems under NDA, and has built more than ten software products including an AI life coach, an autonomous computer-control agent, and a fully automated acquisition pipeline. He has been building companies longer than most people his age have had jobs.

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Heoperateslikehe'sbeendoingthisforthirtyyears.Thenyourememberhe'ssixteen.

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