Kenneth Schlenker

Kenneth Schlenker (Opal): 1M Daily Users, $10M Raise & the Attention OS

Opal co-founder and CEO Kenneth Schlenker announces a new version of the app, 1 million daily active users, and a $10M raise. He walks through Autofocus (context-aware interventions like redirects when scrolling in bed), the Opal attention score modeled like an Oura/Whoop for attention, and user-set rules such as bedtimes and work-hour app blocks. He traces his origins building attention-hacking products at Google, Opal's 2020 founding, doubling DAUs driven by students, the schools product replacing phone confiscation, and argues for teaching digital habits over under-16 social media bans.

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