2x founder
Miguel Monares
co-founder @ Jigsaw | a16z speedrun
Experience
Career
2025Jigsaw
Co-founderCo-Founder / CEO · San Francisco Bay Area · 2025 – Present
2024RNG Inc.
Co-founderCo-Founder / CTO · Los Angeles, California, United States · 2024 – 2025
2023Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (SAIL)
AI Researcher · 2023 – 2024
2021Intel Corporation
Data Scientist · San Diego, California, United States · 2021 – 2023
2021UC San Diego
AI Researcher · San Diego, California, United States · 2021 – 2023
2022National University of Singapore
Researcher · Singapore · 2022 – 2023
2022Singapore Blockchain Innovation Programme
Engineer · Singapore · 2022 – 2023
Bio
Prior to Jigsaw, Miguel was a researcher at Stanford AI Lab working on agents and evals. In 2024, he dropped out of university and moved to Tokyo to build simulated worlds for agents ($200k+ MRR). Before that, Miguel worked as an AI engineer in big tech and top research labs.