San Francisco, California, United States
A 30-year veteran of Silicon Valley and Seattle, Sam is the co-founder and CEO of Sailplane, a hierarchical planning AI research company. He also serves as an AI Scout for True Ventures. Previously, Sam led Kubernetes and DevOps product management for Google Cloud, founded the Cloud Foundry foundation, has helped build two multi-billion dollar markets (API Management at Apigee and Enterprise Service Bus at BEA Systems) and taught Microsoft to love open source and Linux. He is nerdy about open source, platform economics, middleware, and cloud computing with emphasis on developer experience and enterprise software. Sam is a member of the Board of Trustees for UC San Diego. He is an advisor to Dell Technologies, Weaviate and the Linux Foundation. Sam received his B.S. in Cognitive Science from UC San Diego, the home of transdisciplinary innovation, in 1994 and is still excited about artificial intelligence, neuroscience, and cognitive psychology.
Sailplane is a venture-backed research company started by Google Brain and Cloud veterans. Our main line of research is Hierarchical Planning: building agents capable of executing actions in real production environments with high rates of success and reliability.
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