Emmett Shear is a 20 year entrepreneur, most notably as the founder and CEO of Twitch. More recently, he’s been a YC partner, extremely interim CEO of OpenAI, and an independent researcher in alignment and agency before co-founding Softmax.
Adam Goldstein studied EECS and MechE at MIT before co-founding the travel site Hipmunk (YC ‘10, acquired by SAP Concur in 2016). He then became a Visiting Scientist at Michael Levin’s lab at Tufts, studying cancer and cell signaling, and then a graduate student at Oxford in Physiology, Anatomy, and Genetics under the supervision of Denis Noble, Andrew Briggs, and Vlad Vyasovskiy.
David Bloomin is a seasoned software engineer, AI researcher, and entrepreneur with over two decades of experience building large-scale infrastructure at Google, Facebook, and Asana. As a co-founder of the Plurality Institute, he has led research initiatives exploring novel governance models and multi-agent AI frameworks. His work has been featured in NeurIPS and other leading research forums.
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