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Quinn Slack
Founder of Sourcegraph
San Francisco, California
Overview
Quinn Slack, the CEO at Sourcegraph, has a background that includes founding companies like Blend Labs and serving as a Board Member at Hack Club. With a BS from Stanford University, he has made notable investments in startups such as Mintlify and CodeSandbox, focusing on sectors like Travel and E-commerce in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Work Experience
CEO & Co-founder
2013 - Current
Universal code AI & code search for every developer and every company.
Board Member
2015
Hack Club is building a national nonprofit that brings coding clubs to high schools nationwide. Students who love music can join band; students who love sports can join an athletic team; but students who want to code have had to go home and do it alone – until now.
Co-founder
2012 - 2013
Blend Labs is building modern technology for an industry with old problems, transforming massive, disparate datasets and operational inefficiencies into solutions that positively impact millions of homeowners.
Blend is a digital lending platform that facilitates the entire lending process, from application to underwriting to closing.
Raised $815,000,000.00 from Haveli Investments.
Forward Deployed Engineer
2011 - 2012
Developed products and strategies to avoid foreclosures for two of the top five U.S. banks in the home lending space. Created technology platform to automate and improve decision processes and worked with senior execs and end users to develop and deploy the system to thousands of internal users.
Palantir Technologies is a software company that develops data analytics and data integration software solutions.
Raised $3,027,970,015.00 from ARK Investment Management and ARK Investment Management.
Computer Science Researcher
2010 - 2011
* Worked on Tcpcrypt (opportunistic transport-layer encryption) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tcpcrypt) * Created implementations of Web mutual authentication (TLS-SRP), including patches to curl, Apache, NSS, Chromium, Firefox, and Python3
Elections Commissioner
2009 - 2010
* Planned and executed a successful university-wide elections and funding process with 120 candidates, $2M in student activities funding requests, and 7,500 voters * Cut budget by 50% by designing more effective processes, developing a web-based elections platform, and not spending student government money on beer kegs
Various (Opinion Editor, Webmaster, etc.)
2007 - 2011
Owner
2008 - 2010
While at Stanford, I developed paid and free apps with 3.5M downloads, including a #1 app in the US store (Fake Text) and the first instant-searching Chinese-English dictionary.
Developer
2008 - 2008
Created the first music streaming iPhone app for the domestic Chinese market
Lead Developer
2007 - 2007
First employee. Developed the initial version of what is now at bleacherreport.com.
Bleacher Report is a digital media company based in America, delivering digital media content on sports around the world.
Raised $40,500,000.00 from Crosslink Capital, Hillsven Capital and Oak Investment Partners.
Education
BS
2007 - 2011