2x founder

Ben Scharfstein

Building Applied Compute

Co-founder

Rume· Summer 2020 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States

in LinkedIn 𝕏 @benscharfstein

2025Builder· Applied Compute

Founder · since 2019

Company

Applied Compute

Role

Builder

current

Stage

—

no public source

Raised

—

no public source

Based

San Francisco Bay Area

current

Founder / co-founder — the company's markEmployee / research role

Source: LinkedIn work history

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Rume

Video chat that doesn't feel like work

Summer 2020

Experience

Career

Applied Compute
Builder · San Francisco Bay Area · 2025 – Present
2025
Scale AI
Head of Product, Enterprise · San Francisco Bay Area · 2024 – 2025
2024
Stelo Labs / Village Computing Company
Co-founder
Co-founder / CEO · 2022 – 2024
2022
Rume
Co-founder
Co-founder / CEO · 2019 – 2021
2019
South Park Commons
Member · 2019 – 2020
2019
Google
Product Manager · 2018 – 2019
2018
Google
Associate Product Manager · Mountain View, California · 2016 – 2018
2016
Google
Associate Product Manager Intern · San Bruno/Mountain View · 2015
2015
Harvard University
Research Assistant · Cambridge, MA · 2014 – 2015
2014
The Harvard Crimson
Technology Manager · Cambridge, MA · 2014
2014
The Harvard Crimson
Technology Associate · 2013
2013
Earnest Inc
Software Engineering Intern · San Francisco Bay Area · 2014
2014
Harvard Medical School
Data Science Intern · 2012
2012

Bio

Ben founded Rume to help people foster and develop relationships with the people they care about. Ben studied applied math at Harvard with a research focus on the structure of social networks. He started his career as an (a)PM at Google building products across Android and Search.