Adam Smith

Born in Dallas, Texas
Early-teen website here; wrote and sold Windows 95 software EZ-Timer and EBMailer 🤓
Studied EECS at MIT, lead author of paper cited >600 times, graduated in five semesters
Founder/CEO of YC-2006 company Xobni, acquired by Yahoo in 2013 as 40-person company
Founder/CEO of Kite in 2014: AI-assisted software engineering eight years too early, acquihired by Affirm in 2021 where I was a VP Eng for a couple years
Seed investor in Dropbox, Rescale, Modern Treasury, Cruise, Fathom, others
...and the adventures continue! 🚀