Jesse Leimgruber
Founder of OpenHome
San Francisco Bay Area
Overview
Work Experience
Co-Founder - CTO
2024 - Current
AI Smart Speaker
Co-Founder
2014
We sell data to the big social networks and we were hired to lead the US launch of TikTok in 2017.
Partner / Startup Advisor
2017
AWS Healthcare is a global healthcare accelerator.
Co-Founder
2017 - 2023
Developer SDK - Bloom solves the problem of companies selling your data. Secured a deal to sell the tech to a national government in Asia to rebuild their national ID system.
Bloom is an end-to-end protocol for decentralized identity issuance, identity verification, and anti-fraud.
Thiel Fellow
2016 - 2018
Founded by technology entrepreneur and investor Peter Thiel in 2011, the Thiel Fellowship is a two-year program for young people who want to build new things. Thiel Fellows skip or stop out of college to receive a $100,000 grant and support from the Thiel Foundation’s network of founders, investors, and scientists.
Thiel Capital focuses on investments in various industries such as artificial intelligence, drones, and healthcare.
Founder
2011 - 2015
I built RageHats in highschool. We sold over 100,000 neon hats and scaled to $50k/month in revenue when I was still 16
Founder
2012 - 2015
Consulted for Nissan, Phillips, and dozens of small businesses. Started in highschool and ran throughout Stanford. At one point employed a full time team of 20 while I was still a college freshman.