Today, we salute Navy SeaBee Veteran Michael Hyacinthe. Michael has come a long way since his service ended. He drove a cab for two years, and at one point, he was sleeping in that cab at night. Michael is now the 11th annual winner of Veteran Shark Tank, a veteran-founded event — held in conjunction with Army-Navy Week — intended to support and raise awareness about veteran entrepreneurs. Hyacinthe, the founder of a tech-driven creative company called Wimage, presented a feature that will use AI to read story books to children. Wimage was inspired, Hyacinthe said, by his encounter with a veteran who’d lost both hands and wanted a practical way to continue to create art. Hyacinthe, who’d already co-founded a nonprofit, Has Heart, which paired veterans with artists, developed an AI program to convert the spoken word into imagery, and founded his company in 2016.